Sentence examples for were being consigned to 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).

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".

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.