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"We cannot stand by and let a generation of young people be consigned to a life without employment or prospects," he said.

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Instead the two become friends, and Cora consigns the fling to the realm of her imagination.

Its two liberal justices, consigned to irrelevance, worked through the night with their clerks to complete a dissent by the deadline.

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One plus is that games not picked for broadcast on BBC or Sky are now on YouTube, with the much-maligned FA Player consigned to the scrapheap.

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Yet, months later, Jefferson’s estate sold off 130 slaves, breaking up families and consigning some to the “brutal cotton fields of Mississippi and Louisiana.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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