Sentence examples for a bad scheme from inspiring English sources

This holds dangers, since a president may buy congressmen's votes for a bad scheme by promising not to veto the pork those congressmen care about.

A swift ruling to stop these new "joint committees" would help end a bad scheme before it becomes a political tradition.

It is shaped, not mainly by its citizens' wishes nor by its founders' intentions, but by the deals done each day between ministers and civil servants in Brussels, usually behind closed doors, endorsed by a parliament to which few outsiders pay heed.That is not necessarily a bad scheme.

"So it may have been lawful, but clearly the secretary of state accepts that it was a bad scheme, and not one that she is prepared to continue with".

A bad schema designing leads to bad SQL queries.

Mr. Matthews: "It's a bad Ponzi scheme, at this point".

Rockstar sometimes punishes such players, introducing a "bad sport" scheme to highlight them to others.

Criticizing the Republican bill as a sham, a hoax, bad medicine and a risky scheme that would "privatize" Medicare, the Democratic minority used a variety of parliamentary and procedural tactics to delay the work of the House.

"Bad schemes had elaborate mythologies, tales of rapes and crucifixions, of vicious gangs and gangster families and neighbors dead for months behind the door.

As part of any deal Barclays would apparently seek a bad loan guarantee scheme from the Bank of Spain.

This cowardice gives managed realignment schemes a bad name in many coastal communities because the phrase sounds like a euphemism for abandoning sea defences and destroying homes without compensation.