Name: What is a gift economy?...
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Description: This holiday season, people around the world will give and receive presents. You might even get a knitted sweater from an aunt. But what if instead of saying "thanks" before consigning it to the closet, the polite response expected from you

Tina Brown

One phrase I would dearly like to consign to the can is 'Out of the Box.' The thinking that told us we should invade Iraq and that house prices never decline may have been out of the box, but it put us into the ditch. We have been badly misled by people who persuaded us that they understood things we didn't.

American Editor

Sam Harris

It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.

American Author

Jonathan Kozol

So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun and flee and view with fear, I am afraid that educational denial, medical and economic devastation, and aesthetic degradation will be inevitable.

American Writer

Esther McVey

Labour parades compassion for the poor, but it practised casual cruelty by consigning millions to benefits. Yet there's nothing compassionate about being trapped on benefits, being robbed of the dignity of work, and shut out from the choices that brings.

British Politician

Paul Hawken

It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission and the office worker who processes medical insurance claims to work with pride and efficiency, but it's not easy to maintain that attitude.

American Environmentalist

Lee Siegel

Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism of our time, a criticism that takes in various arts all at once.

American Critic

Alfred Enoch

I think dead humans rising from their graves with little to no sense of who they were in their past lives to mindlessly roam the earth consigning others to the same fate would be a bit depressing.

English Actor

Andrea Leadsom

A century after some women first got the vote, we are upping the pressure for change to consign Parliament's legacy of inequality in the past.

Winnie Byanyima

The proud fight against colonialism is one that should be consigned to history.

Ugandan Politician

Paulo Coelho

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Brazilian Novelist

Using 'consign' suggests you trust the caregiver with your belongings or responsibilities.

Trust Implication

'Consign' often implies that the item will be under someone else's care for a lengthy period.

Long-term Care

The act of consigning may lead to a transfer of ownership or public sale.

Ownership Transfer

This usage of 'consign' is common in business, especially when goods change hands.

Business Context

We use 'consign' when goods are handed over to a transport service for delivery.

Transport Involvement

By consigning, you may hold the transporter legally responsible for the goods.

Legal Responsibility

This use of 'consign' suggests a permanent or long-lasting situation.

Permanent Situation

It often has a negative feel, suggesting abandonment or dismissal.

Negative Connotation

'Consign' can be metaphorical, indicating the act of forgetting or disregarding.

Metaphorical Use

 This holiday season, people around the world will give and receive presents. You might even get a knitted sweater from an aunt. But what if instead of saying "thanks" before consigning it to the closet, the polite response expected from you

What is a gift economy?...

 We need them to set targets to reduce emissions, to make this the COP that consigns coal power to history where it belongs. The COP that signals the end of polluting vehicles, the COP that calls time on deforestation.

Alok Sharma: Why COP26...

 This made no sense at all, so they consigned these curves to the back of the math books. They said these are pathological curves, and we don't have to discuss them. And that worked for a hundred years.

Ron Eglash: The fractals...

 There is no better way to show people that you're not serious than to tie up everything you have to say about ethics into a little package with a bow and consign it to the margins as an ethics course.

Barry Schwartz: Our loss...

 which means they were consigning them to an adult body no matter what happened, even if they tested them well. Jackie, on top of it, was, by virtue of skeletal markings, destined to be six feet five.

Norman Spack: How I help...

 going to be able to understand these diseases and learn about them not for curiosity not for publication not for profit but to take them apart one by one and consign into the history books thank you

Measuring immeasurable...

 But before we consign ourselves to despair, maybe we should just go back and say, "Did we get this right? Is this really how people are? Is this really how economies behave?" And almost straightaway

Tim Jackson: An economic...

 time than any one clock and more robustly I've never liked to carry watches I I don't really want the to consign my concept of time to the measurement to obsessed with measurement they can lose

“Maybe Time Doesn’t Even...

 is no better way to show people that you're not serious than to tie up everything you have to say about ethics into a little package with a bow and consign it to the margins as an ethics

Our loss of wisdom -...

 while at the same time, consigning the non-religious to political oblivion. This secular non-religious vote, if properly mobilized, is nine times as numerous as the Jewish vote.

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