Sentence examples for its consignment from inspiring English sources

It is punctuated by astonishing live performances that have the character of rites and rituals – the dismemberment of a car in a Los Angeles showroom, its consignment to a hellish, medieval foundry in Detroit, where it is smelted into iron and cast in the earth, the flooding of a dry dock in New York.

Little says that while UR redistributed a few of its weapons – "there were some deals around the edges" – most of its consignment was kept intact.

As for the ban on straight guarantees, Christie's on April 4 , 1994 gave the estate of the philanthropist Alice Tully just such a boon for its consignment of art, to the tune of $22 million.

In Posters: A Critical Study of the Development of Poster Design in Continental Europe, England and America (1913), Charles Matlack Price warned: "When a poster fails, its failure is utter and irretrievable, and its inevitable destiny is its consignment to the limbo of waste paper".

Younger writers haven't looked at the possibilities of this lineage, with its idiosyncratic delight in the freedom to withhold, assign, and create meaning, its consignment of history to the scrap-yard, and its bringing of the scrap-yard into history, closely enough.

This was by far the most talked-about lot of the two sales, with an intriguing story about its consignment.

But Sotheby's reports that its consignments so far are running ahead of last year's.

Held at the superlative Owls Head Transportation Museum in Midcoast Maine, this sale is known particularly for its consignments of prewar agricultural trucks, some culled from the surrounding towns.

Unfortunately for BD Foods, a number of its consignments now lie stranded in ports around the world as customs officials probe their contents.

After the investigation, the related authorities did not find any proof against us and the government did not file any legal case against us.' The company has now written to the British High Commission to point out that there has never been a problem with any of its consignments exported to Britain.

As most anyone in Palm Beach will tell you, many of the pastel city's fortunes were managed by Bernie Madoff, and it's tempting to think that this is why its upscale consignment shops are teeming with loot.