Sentence examples for it is being consigned from inspiring English sources

While Christie's will not say who is selling the painting — the catalog designation reads "Property From a Notable Private Collection" — contemporary art dealers believe it is being consigned by George Roberts, the San Francisco financier, who has owned the painting for nearly a decade.

As to why Booth's book, bound in gilded green morocco and boldly signed on the front blank "Edwin Booth The Players", is being consigned now, some speculate that it is the latest desperate measure toward solvency.

Now 85 years old, he is being consigned to retirement by the rise of Mr Modi.

Rather than questioning whose responsibility it is to ensure that jobs exist for the increasing number of people trained in each department, the prospect of academic employment for PhD graduates is being consigned to the rhetoric of "good fortune" and "timing".

The death tax is being consigned to the graveyard and the tax on dividends, abolished.

What stories are being consigned to oblivion as it is dismantled?

The prints, which were being consigned to a Melbourne art dealer, Gino Nibbi, are to be destroyed.

The bodies were being consigned to the earth in batches of 10, and, for the mourners, there was little time to linger.

"The old notions of 'early retirement' are being consigned to history, but far too few workers are planning ahead for longer working lives.

The scribblers fret that they are being consigned to dead-end companies a fear hardly soothed by analysts who refer in private to "Good Corp" (new media) and "Crap Corp" (print).

Mr. Pabon was being consigned to a long and potentially dangerous imprisonment, the judge said, because of "the heedless use of mandatory sentencing statutes, and the intransigence of the government in pursuing this Draconian remedy".