Sentence examples for consigned us from inspiring English sources

Let us represent worthily for once the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us!

"What I wanted to do," Brink told The New Yorker, "was to get across the idea that Ford hadn't just declined to help us; he had, in effect, consigned us to the scrap heap".

It could consign us to years of stagnation".

All we ask is that before consigning us to the scrap heap we get an opportunity to make our case.

Maybe there is no escape from the prepackaged life to which consumer society consigns us; maybe a stylish, wised-up cynicism is the only relief.

An all-powerful computer that was programmed to maximize human pleasure, for example, might consign us all to an intravenous dopamine drip; an automated car that aimed to minimize harm would never leave the driveway.

The Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, speaking in an interview Friday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said that "brutal" job cuts early in the recession "consign us to a tragically more moderate reduction in unemployment as the economy recovers".

How dare they be against him, say such unjust and hurtful things about the great man who had vowed to destroy us, the evil Soviet Union, and consign us to the ash heap of history!

Our legacy has been under severe attack by the rule makers, Congress, our courts and our judges, all of whom want to consign us to history and simultaneously undermine the struggles of today.

Deolalikar was saying, in essence, that there will always be some problems for which we can recognize an answer without being able to quickly find one — intractable problems that lie beyond the grasp of even our most powerful microprocessors, that consign us to a world that will never be quite as easy as some futurists would have us believe.

The language doesn't exist to describe this crime, and that consigns us to imperfect analogies: it is an invasion beyond privacy and beyond sex, into a person's destiny, holding them hostage forever to the love of a child conceived as the byproduct of state reconnoitre.