Sentence examples for consigned himself to from inspiring English sources

With this decision, he consigned himself to the media shadows during weeks of intensive coverage.

Jef walks with the careful lightness of a man prowling over what may be quicksand, and suspicion is the territory he has consigned himself to.

Not the natural gas employee who has consigned himself to a life of doing something that he feels ought not to be done.

He consigned himself to a political no-man's-land where he has been denied the perks of a traditional campaign (such as appearing in Republican debates), but has nevertheless attracted all the scrutiny of a regular candidate.

By the time he reached his next event today, a panel discussion with doctors at a medical center in Orlando, it was almost as if he had consigned himself to the eclipsing of the day's theme.

Davis seemed unaware he had consigned himself to the backbenches, telling the BBC: "I may or may not be on the backbenches … This issue matters more to me than my job".

As he consigns himself to that very past, perhaps the sly, silent smile of his extended leave-taking is his parting gift.

This owed, perhaps, to a reluctance to consign himself to the role of mere crewman, as he told Newsweek in 2003.

Had Reagan made it his mission to find the consensual center on every issue, he would not have been able to move American politics so far to the right; had he been absolutely true to his convictions, he would have sacrificed enough of his popularity to consign himself to the company of ideological politicians who inspire retrospective admiration for having lost nobly.

All of that raises a question about Mr. LaPierre's leadership "The question for the N.R.A. is whether eventually he appeals to only so narrow a segment of the population that he consigns himself to irrelevance," said Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat and gun control advocate.

Then there's A Winter's Tale, when Leontes accuses his pregnant wife quite unreasonably of having it off with his best friend, consigning himself and her to 20 years of misery.