Sentence examples for were consigned for from inspiring English sources

It was the second day of NATO's weapons collection operation and, without a hitch, several hundred more weapons, including three ground-to-air missiles, were consigned for destruction.

As a novelist, Grassic Gibbon was pulling away from the sentimentality associated with the kailyard: the cabbage patch to which a particular group of writers at the end of the 19th century were consigned for their desire to romanticise life in Scotland.

At a time of tremendous upheaval in India, Mr. Prasad is a lightning rod for one of the country's most wrenching debates: Has India's embrace of economic reforms really uplifted those who were consigned for centuries to the bottom of the social ladder?

They have been consigned for sale by a local private vendor who inherited them from a relative.

About 20 of the remaining objects have been consigned for a Dec. 6 auction at Kestenbaum & Company in Manhattan.

The Duesenberg has subsequently come forward, having been consigned for auction on Friday at Hershey, Pa., as part of a week of collector car activities planned there.

And either Mr. Obama or Mrs. Clinton — and the movements they represent — will be consigned, for the time being, to a status of "almost".

The contents of the Barbier-Mueller Museum of Pre-Columbian Pre-Columbian Artcupied a 15th-century palace near a Picasso museum since 1997 until it closed, have been consigned for a March auction at Sotheby's in Paris.

The library holdings of about 40,000 books, marked here and there with Redemptorist stamps and priests' marginal notations, have been consigned for a series of sales that starts April 4 at Freeman's auction house in Philadelphia.

A Charles I gold medal (pictured above) was consigned for sale by the Godson family, who believed it was an ordinary honour confirming the king as "Sovereign of the Seas".

Both teams "should probably be grateful to be consigned for now to the provinces, far away from the stifling center of the 2008 Summer Games," Harvey Araton writes in Sports of The Times.