Indisputable is the variety represented in the collection, consigned by Bonhams after Mr. Hobday, the former owner of Eddie Rickenbacker's, the restaurant in this city's SoMa district named after the World War I flying ace, died last year.
And when everyone else is speaking, you had better do it often and do it well, or risk being drowned in the din, consigned to that house at the edge of the village, where few people visit and, when they do, expect to hear little of any consequence.
What he is not able to leave in Ilkeston, however, is the problem of Ollie, the suave university friend who stole Daisy from him and has, in the process, consigned him to a life he cannot escape.
He has also, to some degree, done in the art consigned to his visual care.
Until this year, most Russians thought their brutal civil war ended long ago, in the 1920s, consigned to history.
My poor little piece was dead in the water, consigned to some lonely space on my hard drive, there to lead a life of what might have been, and periodically subjected to defragmentation.
Acquired from Marlborough Fine Art in London in 1967 by David Pincus, one of the leading American collectors in the second half of the century, the picture, consigned from the connoisseur's estate, had never appeared in the market during the intervening 45 years.
The boys in the school apparently consigned the occasion to immortality by giving the affair the name of 'The Great Mouse Plot of 1924'.
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".
In winning their nationhood, the Greeks consigned the Persians to a miserable place in the world's memory.
