Sentence examples for a disastrous scheme from inspiring English sources

Thwarted at work (and in love) in his new country, he concocts a disastrous scheme: launch a killer computer virus and become a hero by ultimately stopping it.

Fujitsu were a supplier on the NHS Programme for IT (NHSPfIT), a disastrous scheme that sought to digitise NHS medical information.

What is clear, he reminds us, is that Nixon took an active role in the disastrous scheme to cover up the break-in because he feared that an outside investigation would expose a wide range of illegal activity of which he was aware, including phone taps, burglaries and a host of dirty tricks.

The politician responsible for a "disastrous" loan scheme has refused to back down over calls for him to resign.

Renault's special feeling for the relationship between a teacher and a student imbues the poignant finale of "The Mask of Apollo," her 1966 novel about an Athenian actor who gets mixed up in Plato's disastrous scheme, in the three-sixties B.C., to turn a corrupt Sicilian tyrant into a philosopher-king.

In the novel's account, the Earl of Chatsworth offers to leave food and supplies for the village at a boundary stone, and the inspiration for the whole disastrous scheme comes from Michael Mompellion, rector of the local church, whose dark and saintly sides blink on and off according to the demands of the plot.

Particularly worrying is the new aim of dualling a large proportion of the Highways Agency network, to look again at environmentally disastrous schemes around Stonehenge and along the south coast, and the decision to end any guaranteed funding for green transport outside London.

It could demand that Ms Yingluck be indicted over a disastrous rice-pledging scheme.

She agreed to leave office and was later charged with negligence in a disastrous rice-subsidy scheme.

One, before the anti-corruption commission, concerns her government's administration of a disastrous rice-subsidy scheme.

There she stands charged with dereliction of duty in pursuit of the government's signature policy, a disastrous rice-pledging scheme.