And when the Italian prime minister contemplates the fate of David Cameron, consigned to political history after his own ill-starred referendum, he must feel distinctly queasy.
After all, the fact that Saudi women are not permitted to drive is bad enough, but, then again, that's only the tip of the iceberg for the fate they're consigned to.
Instead, he consigned their fate to the later, legislative phase.
The computer-controlled characters were also rather too good at their own game, and Weaponlord was ultimately consigned to its fate as a curio most renowned for being the first fighter designed with online play in mind.
Christian images tend to concentrate instead on the grown-up inmates of the limbus patrum, the Old Testament prophets and the poets of pagan antiquity - those who were consigned to their fate although they had lived good lives, because they lived before the resurrection, and so had to wait for Christ to open the gates of heaven for them.
Essex's noted inferiority complex, fostered through media caricatures, is rooted in its status as a place consigned to such fates.
In the end it was consigned to an uncertain fate in committee.
I wondered what had consigned them to this fate — hidden from the public, seen only by an adoring son.
I mean plenty of clods who were cooked, capped, choked, broken or left to the buzzards by higher bureaucratic powers didn't actually do the crap that ultimately consigned them to their fate.
For those of you consigned to the dysphoric fate of living in or near San Diego, tonight this week's Practice Space guests Sian Alice Group are playing at the the Casbah.
