Sentence examples for consigned to working from inspiring English sources

Unless Congress stops ignoring this reality (and in the absence of successful organizing drives), these workers -- millions of whom toil in our low-wage sectors -- will be consigned to working poverty.

When Donald Trump picked Paul Manafort to be his campaign chair last March, the political operative was a relatively minor player in Washington, consigned to working for deep-pocketed foreign benefactors.

The boy shows a knack with chickens and sheep on the family farm, raises hell at school - so much so that the homestead falls victim to predatory Methodists and he is consigned to work on a barge.

Inspired by a Channel 4 documentary, Mullan's powerful drama criticises the Irish Catholic church's treatment of unmarried pregnant women, who were consigned to work in laundries run by the Sisters of the Magdalene Order.

Always content to do what they are told; always consigned to work on the "dull, dirty, dangerous" jobs; often uneasily aware that they are superior in some ways to their masters; endlessly at risk of pogrom because of their masters' resentment and fear of them: his robot stories, and those of his successors, were immigrant stories.

At first consigned to work details, the 54th eventually saw combat.

But after he moved to New York in 1969, he was consigned to training work.

Undocumented kids have the highest high school dropout rate in the country except for Native Americans "because if you're going to be consigned to a life of working under the table, why not start at 16 rather than 18?" says Karen Willemsen, Ed.M.'94, education director for Define American, a media and cultural campaign to share stories of the immigrant experience.

Even car-bound consumers consigned to exurbia by work can find options for becoming less car-dependent.

Tens of thousands more were wounded, and many were left disabled, unable to work, and consigned to poverty back home.

In a telling sign of renewed confidence, many of the works consigned to Christie's had come up at auction in recent years.