Sentence examples for a far-fetched scheme from inspiring English sources

Speaker John Boehner and Eric Cantor, the majority leader, had come up with a far-fetched scheme to placate the radicals in their coalition by attaching a provision to the spending resolution that would force the Senate to vote on defunding health reform.

Mr. Tarloff, 47, told the police he went to Dr. Shinbach's office on East 79th Street on Feb. 12, 2008, to rob the doctor of $50,000 for a far-fetched scheme to kidnap his mother from a hospital and move with her to Hawaii.

McMaster is now gone, the security situation hasn't improved, and Trump is said to be so frustrated that he is once again considering a far-fetched scheme to pull U.S. troops out and turn over their mission to Blackwater founder Erik Prince's mercenaries.

It may sound like a far-fetched scheme: Infecting mosquitoes with a bacterium to prevent them from passing a viral disease to humans.

Remember, for a moment, Richard Reid, whose far-fetched scheme still inspires smiles of disbelief, but who three months after Sept. 11 very nearly blew a plane out of the sky by putting a match to a bomb in his shoe.

I'm saying that because I've been brainwashed by the Soviets in a — let's face it — pretty far-fetched scheme to overthrow the U.S. government.

Behind this far-fetched scheme was an ultimate goal, "to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons".

Laura is a Lucy of far-fetched schemes and well-meaning, love-filled flops.

The grandchildren of the founder often reach for far-fetched schemes — a fashion line, a hotel in Dubai — either because they're bored or because all the good jobs are already taken.

This was not an exercise in promoting fanciful ideas and far-fetched schemes.

But plenty of far-fetched schemes have earned the attention of serious minds and powerful wills.