(v. t.) To give, transfer, or deliver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, with the sense of fixedness in that state, or permanence of possession; as, to consign the body to the grave.
(v. t.) To give in charge; to commit; to intrust.
(v. t.) To send or address (by bill of lading or otherwise) to an agent or correspondent in another place, to be cared for or sold, or for the use of such correspondent; as, to consign a cargo or a ship; to consign goods.
(v. t.) To assign; to devote; to set apart.
(v. t.) To stamp or impress; to affect.
(v. i.) To submit; to surrender or yield one's self.
(v. i.) To yield consent; to agree; to acquiesce.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hull City clambered out of the relegation zone and consigned Paul Lambert to a half-century of Premier League defeats as Aston Villa manager in the process.
(2) If we do not act now we will consign the cherished principles of equality before the law and access to justice to the dustbin of history, and as we approach the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta that would be an ironic tragedy.” An MoJ spokesperson said: “We note the judgment and will carefully consider our next steps.
(3) On Thursday, a consignment of Russian Yankhont anti-ship cruise missiles arrived in Syria .
(4) The inability to close the eyelids voluntarily is, with these types of lesion, a transient sign which is rapidly replaced by difficulty in maintaining the consign.
(5) Vine also criticises the searching priorities of the Border Force and HM Revenues and Customs by highlighting that 68% of freight consignments targeted for checks at the border are actually undergoing a physical examination while 43,000 low-risk cargoes were being checked.
(6) But these have come with their own problems: despite the improvements in individual living conditions, there is a growing realisation that the RDP housing programme has reinforced apartheid era segregation, continuing to consign the poor to ghettos at the furthest edges of the city.
(7) "Thus we cannot just consign to the backburner the question of the European spirit.
(8) The tiny republic said it would consign the Yugoslav federation to history unless its ultimatum was met within days.
(9) Davis seemed unaware he had consigned himself to the backbenches, telling the BBC: "I may or may not be on the backbenches … This issue matters more to me than my job."
(10) Thus, the same tribunal that regularly consigns ordinary, powerless Americans to prison for decades for even trivial offenses yet again acts to protect the most powerful actors from any consequences for serious crimes: that is the US justice system in a nutshell.
(11) Dean, a consignment store worker from Sebastopol in northern California , said she hopes progressive voters in the state heed the Warriors’ catchphrase and not only cast their ballots for Sanders on Tuesday’s primary, but mobilize others to do the same.
(12) Or a week's worth of manic negotiation has consigned two decades of corporation strategy to history.
(13) Selective pre-enrichment of 5 g of sample prior to plating on to a solid media disclosed that 2,7% of consignments were contaminated with Salmonella.
(14) In Brisbane during October 1988 one larva of the exotic dengue vector Aedes albopictus (Skuse) was collected by quarantine officers from a consignment of used vehicle tyres imported from Asia.
(15) Go further back, and the UK's proud claim to be "a trading nation" was established with consignments of the bloodstained crops of cotton and sugar, to say nothing of the human cargo that went with them.
(16) But the US, Israel and other western spy agencies have also spent years slipping faulty parts into black market consignments of equipment heading to Iran – each designed to wreak havoc inside the delicate machinery requirement for enrichment.
(17) It was after the Indian wars of the 1870s that the indigenous tribes started to be consigned to reservations – on the worst, most desolate lands for grazing or growing crops.
(18) For this purpose an assessment was carried out of the risk of accepting Salmonella contaminated consignments of foods, despite a negative outcome of (i) examination of 1.5 kg samples for Salmonella; (ii) examination of one or two 1 g samples for Enterobacteriaceae; (iii) simultaneous application of both tests.
(19) Voluntarily consigned to the margins, he is ideally placed to embrace the marginalised.
(20) But it's that very poverty of expectation, Birbalsingh argues, which consigns them to failure.
Entrust
Definition:
(v. t.) See Intrust.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinton has entrusted the job of handling her transition into the world’s most powerful job to Obama’s former interior secretary Ken Salazar , while Trump’s team is led by New Jersey governor Chris Christie.
(2) Similarly, "singularly foreign" appear mitochondria, namely the forges specifically entrusted with the respiratory metabolism.
(3) Medicine as a profession is entrusted with the responsibility to prevent disease and treat the sick--a responsibility that has both personal and social dimensions.
(4) Edwards, like most of Brown's victims, did not realise he was entrusting his money to someone who had not even passed his maths O-level.
(5) Entrusted to Moore, it would have been all over in a quick flurry of one-liners and raised eyebrows.
(6) The artist is not allowed to leave Beijing, and had to entrust the installation to collaborators.
(7) Among them was Amor Masovic, the chairman of the Bosnian Missing Persons Institute, the man entrusted by the state with the endless task of accounting for the dead.
(8) And I think also something like the recent Star Gazing Live on BBC2, the astronomy show stretched nightly across a single week, was an example of great, creative commissioning, where time and space, literally, was entrusted to a group of individuals and experts, at a risk it could all fall flat, but given encouragement and profile – and in the garnering, great viewing figures and rewards.
(9) Such reports were relatively prevalent among poor women, those without relatives nearby, and those willing to entrust the care of their children to nonfamily members.
(10) Referring to the armies of overseas contractors tech companies use to police social media he said, “are you going to entrust that decision to someone getting paid $2 an hour in the Philippines?” After the meeting wrapped up, the nation’s top spies demonstrated their skills of evasion.
(11) And if you must entrust data to them, make sure it's encrypted.
(12) The statement, issued by lawyers from two Chinese firms late on Saturday night and obtained by Hong Kong television, the South China Morning Post and Sing Tao newspaper, said they had been "entrusted by the family members of Wen Jiabao" but did not specify which relatives they represent.
(13) They are a party that people can easily associate with compassion for the poor and underdogs but they have never been a party that has persuaded people they are serious about wealth creation and the economy and managing public finances in a credible way ... Labour are people who care a lot but aren’t always the people you’d want to entrust with your money.
(14) Aung San Suu Kyi will entrust the party in parliament in the hands of other NLD elders, as expected, and assume a role within the cabinet,” said Nyantha Maw Lin, the managing director at political consultancy Vriens & Partners in Yangon.
(15) Together with J. Gruber, he was entrusted with the direction of the newly-founded Ohrenklinik of the University of Vienna, the first of its kind in the world.
(16) Deciding whether to entrust the internet to government control or the control of the telecommunications companies or internet service providers (ISPs) will continue to be a difficult call.
(17) Soon he'd be entrusted with an annual pay cheque of $3m for personal or professional use, even as he formulated an escape plan.
(18) Psychiatry is, among other things, the institutionalised denial of the tragic nature of life: individuals who want to reject the reality of free will and responsibility can medicalise life, and entrust its management to health professionals.
(19) Entrusting a 21-year-old who had never worked anywhere but restaurant kitchens with the administration of what, even by Treasury standards, is not an insignificant amount of money seemed a little odd to me – until it was explained that the fund, and by extension national insurance as a whole, was in the Treasury's view mostly an accounting fiction with very little relevance to the modern tax and benefit system.
(20) And it is not right for the investor according to the law, to hand over the production to those who have no right to it and they [those who have the right to it] are the ones determined in an agreement by the administration that is entrusted over the project and overseeing its organisation by the province in which the project is established.