The phrase "abortive plans" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe plans or efforts that have failed or been unsuccessful.
Example: "Despite their best efforts, the team's abortive plans to launch the new product resulted in significant losses."
Alternatives: "failed plans" or "unsuccessful plans".
Douglas Alexander, a former protege who fell out with Brown over the abortive plans to call a UK general election in 2007, experienced something of a reconciliation with his mentor, whose role he likened to that played by the Quebecois former Canadian prime ministers Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Jean Chrétien in the closing stages of the 1980 and 1995 Quebec referendums.
'I don't like it at home,' he told his mother, 'but I can't bear it anywhere else.' Following abortive plans to join the army and get a job as a computer programmer, Drake made one final attempt to take control of his life.
After several more abortive plans at amalgamation, where the Stainforth and Keadby pulled out at the last minute, agreement was finally reached, and the Don Navigation took control of the canal on 1 January 1849.
Investigators believed the weapon could have been linked to an abortive plan to hijack the plane.
She pulled up a chair, squeezed in beside John Owens, and began to describe an abortive plan to buy Kate Moss's house in London.
An abortive plan to create a backdoor surveillance capability in encrypted communications, known as Clipper, was introduced by the Clinton administration in 1993.
And privately, some Democrats said today that they believed that the Republicans' ability to bargain over the debates was diminished by Mr. Bush's abortive plan.
The issue is expected to become a flashpoint of dissent among Tory and Lib Dem MPs still reeling from Defra's abortive plan to sell-off forests, which allowed Labour to position itself as the party of the countryside.
One abortive plan at Cannes was to convert some of these into extra "special drawing rights" at the IMF to boost German guarantees for the EFSF over the heads of the Bundestag.
Mr. Branson said, for example, that he intends to have "Virgin.com" painted onto the sides of his planes in place of the "No Way BA/AA" slogan that has adorned Virgin's fleet since his nemesis, British Airways, announced an abortive plan for a far-reaching alliance with American Airlines.
Émile Ollivier, Ollivier also spelled Olivier, (born July 2, 1825, Marseille, France died Aug. 20, 1913, Saint-Gervais-les-Bains), French statesman, writer, and orator who, as minister of justice under Napoleon III, authored an abortive plan for achieving a governmental compromise between Napoleonic autocracy and parliamentary democracy.
