EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — One of the most difficult parts of being an offensive lineman in the N.F.L. is the realization that you are consigned to a life of association.
So far there aren't a lot of apps available for the phone and to find them you are consigned to the fifth circle of Google Play (the torture formerly known as the Android Market).
"Today if you work hard and play by the rules, but you work nonunion in our industry, you are consigned to a dead-end, lousy job with no benefits, no dignity, no respect, and you need to work two or three jobs just to make ends meet," he said.
"For all this talk about preserving Medicare, preserving Medicare as it currently is means that you are consigning it to history".
If Whorf's theory sounds a little odd to you, a little politically incorrect, perhaps you're an anxious liberal like me; if you subscribe to it wholesale (sometimes called the "strong" version of the hypothesis), you are consigning people from different speaking communities to totally different inner lives.
If you're consigned to the equivalent of the ploffice for the foreseeable future, how do you persuade other household members to recognise that the corner you've claimed is officially an office and should be treated accordingly?
And they don't see much of a future … If you're feeling like you're consigned to, you know, being a barista, or you know, some other job that doesn't pay a lot, and doesn't have some other ladder of opportunity attached to it, then the idea that maybe, just maybe, you could be part of a political revolution is pretty appealing.
It's a lot harder to grab their attention once you're consigned to their 'Other' Inbox.
"If you're consigned to, you know, being a barista or, you know, some other job that doesn't pay a lot and doesn't have much of a ladder of opportunity attached to it, then the idea that maybe, just maybe, you could be part of a political revolution is pretty appealing," she said.
If you deny people in Africa access to Urea, you're consigning them to famine.
Don't vote, and you're consigning yourself to four years in the political Dark Ages.In the end, Serb turnout was dismally low, at around 20% of those entitled to cast ballots.
