"I came to realize," he wrote in his second book, "The Audacity of Hope," that "without an unequivocal commitment to a particular community of faith, I would be consigned at some level to always remain apart, free in the way that my mother was free, but also alone in the same ways that she was ultimately alone".
It predicted, for instance, that older cars would be consigned to the scrapheap, which would suit sellers of new cars, who were frustrated by the pride some owners had in their classic vehicles.
He said groups of up to 300 people could be granted permits to assemble on the City Hall steps and the broad plaza at its base, and groups of more than 300 would be consigned to City Hall Park, but only with a separate permit from the city's Parks Department.
Meanwhile, Vice President elect Mike Pence once predicted that Roe v. Wade, the landmark case allowing abortion, would be "consigned to the ash heap of history where it belongs" during Trump's presidency. .
President-elect Trump promised to appoint a Supreme Court judge who was staunchly anti-abortion to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Antonin Scalia nearly a year ago, and Vice President-elect Mike Pence has promised that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, "would be consigned to the ash heap of history where it belongs".
This part of her life would be consigned to silence.
Dirt-hoarding fabrics with grime-concealing patterns would be consigned to the efficient rubbish chutes.
Homely necessities like closets and appliances would be consigned to subterranean quarters.
Misery's billions would be consigned to the annals of history.Markets v miseryThat is a lot of ifs.
We watched the lot to determine which would be the next Transparent and which would be consigned to the digital scrapheap.
