He knew precisely the historical role to which it had consigned him.
No one would have been more amused than Reagan himself if Hollywood had consigned him to a career of playing egghead roles.
That is why analysts say Mr. Berlusconi, despite having bowed out of politics, is still following developments in Rome very closely, even if Italians have consigned him to their political history.
It was the first season for the Mets, who had been formed in an expansion draft, and the Old Man had been resuscitated from the elephant boneyard to which the Yankees had consigned him after 1960.
Here was a man in his 30s who, despite a case of cerebral palsy that had consigned him to a wheelchair, earned a master's degree and held a social work job.
Or a "Batman Forever" and a "Batman and Robin," which seemed determined to return Batman to the triviality to which the campy 60's television series had consigned him.
I can give just a taste: for his fellow émigré Eliot's "impotence, which he communicates to the whole country, surrenders itself to every order which is old enough, seeks to prevent every enthusiasm, a debauchee of nothingness, pale imitator of Hegel, desecrator of Dante (to which region of Hell would Dante have consigned him?), thin-lipped, cold-hearted, old before his time".
A slew of rhetorical missteps has kept Bush from breaking away from the pack, while an unexceptional performance at the first Republican debate in Cleveland appears to have consigned him to not-quite-frontrunner status.
That Clinton freed two U.S. journalists and Carter managed to avert war between the United States and North Korea doesn't seem to satisfy Bolton, whose wildly intemperate views during the Bush years should have consigned him to the lunatic fringe rather than the dead center of the media universe.
Their nonconformism has consigned them to the fringes.
