Sentence examples for a devious plan from inspiring English sources

Live TV was conceived as a devious plan to get football on to cable, but that didn't work - and after that, it just turned into a joke".

In an unguarded moment in the campaign, Mr. Bush said he had a "devious plan" for dealing with the class-size issue if the measure was approved.

For all the report suggested about Armstrong's key role in what the agency called a team-orchestrated doping scheme, it also rendered rare and vivid portraits of individual athletes caught up in a devious plan to cheat and win.

A con artist, calling himself Count Fujiwara, hatches a devious plan that sees him working alongside pickpocket Sook-hee to steal the many riches of beautiful heiress Lady Hideko.

The front page article ("Profile of a Land Deal," March 7) implies that Town Hall abetted a devious plan to give a local developer windfall profits at the expense of the longtime owners of the Schultz Cider Mill property.

The once-manic Barnes used to function as target practice for JR; now he's CEO of Ewing Oil and JR has been forced to masquerade as mentally incapacitated in order to formulate a devious plan to get his company back.

On Wednesday, one of them created a thread around an ostensibly devious plan: Dig up photos of the faces of women who had been abused and add text to them, like, "she deserves it for being a nazi," and then put the images on social media, and add the hashtag "#PunchANazi".

That stance can be criticised on several counts: that conditions in Syria now, and for the foreseeable future, are hardly conducive to credible elections; that this is a devious Russian plan to assist Assad to a new mandate, and – less convincingly – that the distinction between the future of Assad the individual and the preservation of the Syrian state is somehow spurious.

The diversity was part of the Admissions Office's devious plan: everyone was there for a reason, and that reason was to enhance one another's education.

Their devious plan may require seduction, and Lilly quickly realizes that this will be Bart's job, not hers.

Perhaps this was part of some programming executive's devious plan, but that half-hour every Saturday morning in the early 1980s made me a public radio listener for life.