Sentence examples for sent on consignment from inspiring English sources

Gill had resigned after a federal investigation into accounting irregularities at Bausch & Lomb, alleging that executives had improperly booked as revenues shipments of contact lenses sent on consignment.

The bulk of the consignment, which has a very short shelf life, was sent on by air for sale in the US.

At first, he resisted, but then sent a consignment of munitions to Trieste, and offered to join the Holy League.

The Hales sent the first consignment of aoogs and now are ready to send a second consignment.

Mostly, he scraped by on handouts from his friend, who, having joined the Manchester branch of his father's firm, sent a "regular consignment of small-denomination bank notes, pilfered from the petty cash box".

Ashur-nadin-ahhe II (c. 1392 c. 1383) was even able to obtain support from Egypt, which sent him a consignment of gold.

Supply chain managers trained and used to solving lead time issues by shortening the length of the chain and send small consignment with road transport.

Most of us regularly use flush toilets and send valuable consignments of fertility on their way to a watery grave.

(Voltaire turned out to be a brilliant salesman, using his high connections to force watches on people on consignment, and then blandly sending them bills).

They are currently developing a programme to improve the lives of displaced children living in refugee camps in Iraq and, on Tuesday, they sent a 100-box consignment of Arsenal kit over to them.

UNICEF Sri Lanka responded to the first phase of severe flooding, which was concentrated in the east of the country, by sending two consignments of supplies.