Consigns

He poses as a martyr, and cries out that "the blood of the martyr is the seed of faith"; he pours out imprecations upon other religious sects; calls down maledictions upon the qualified doctors, who are to him merely "sorcerers and poisoners"; consigns "the vipers of the press" to destruction; and, carried away by the violence of his anathemas, launches this peroration upon the ears of his admiring audience: ❋ Jean Finot (1890)

The description consigns "Xanadu" to parentheses and fails to mention that this monumental carving belonged to the fabled structure immortalized in Coleridge's poem. ❋ Lee Rosenbaum (2010)

I've seen up close how the DOE prematurely consigns many very bright students to 'non-graduation.' ❋ Michele Somerville (2011)

This blueprint consigns bowlers such as Jimmy Ormond, Jon Lewis and Ed Giddins to stints as occasional horses for courses selections at Trent Bridge or Lord's when no one else was fit. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Lucie consigns help at the recommendation of a good friend, who turns out to be quite the opposite. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's fueled by an all-consuming overwork ethic that equates anything but nonstop busyness as slacking and consigns all self-worth to output. ❋ Joe Robinson (2010)

In reality, however, the Islamic world has been divided into three classes: secular government that consigns religion to personal life (Egypt); ostensibly-religious, but essentially secular government that sanctions intrusive authority of clerics (Saudi Arabia); and outright religious government (Iran). ❋ Alon Ben-Meir (2011)

That is a counsel of utter despair and racist condescension which consigns millions of people to the dead end of indefinite dictatorship. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Romans 11:32 goes so far as to say that "God consigns all men to disobedience so he may have mercy on them." ❋ Vincent Bugliosi (2011)

For all its up-to-the-minute pretensions, "O" consigns women to the roles of wives, mothers, spunky beat reporters and obnoxious divorcees. ❋ Ron Charles (2011)

Mark Hix, perhaps anticipating a Welsh backlash, goes for caerphilly in his book British Regional Food, while Delia consigns any such concerns to the bottom of Lyn Tegid, and plumps for an equal mix of cheddar and parmesan for the Welsh Rarebit Soufflé in her Complete Cookery Course. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Takashi Murakami's installation at the Gagosian Gallery in Rome When asked what would happen to the market prices for Mr. Gagosian's artists without the dealer there to support them, Jose Mugrabi, a major Warhol dealer who sometimes consigns pieces to Mr. Gagosian's shows, said simply, "I shudder to even think of it." ❋ Kelly Crow (2011)