Sentence examples for were being consigned from inspiring English sources

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.

Like other Romantics, John Keats complained that the intimate forms of illumination associated with candles and oil lamps, which lit small areas with an uneven, gently flickering flame, and which consequently generated a kind of contemplative aura, were being consigned to the past.

Professor Wolf had warned that hundreds of thousands of teenagers were being consigned to low-quality "dead end" vocational courses, when they really needed the type of basic skills in literacy and numeracy required by employers.

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

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

"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).

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.

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".

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.