The phrase "abortive schemes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe plans or projects that have failed or been unsuccessful.
Example: "Despite their best efforts, the team was forced to abandon their abortive schemes due to lack of funding."
Alternatives: "failed plans" or "unsuccessful projects".
After many abortive schemes, Catherine issued in 1786 a statute for schools, which can be considered the first Russian education act for the whole country.
Modern Bradford sometimes feels like a city of abortive schemes, from City's premiership ambitions to the infamous city-centre hole where, until the financial crisis, a new Westfield shopping centre was meant to have been.
There were a number of abortive schemes to link the Bristol Channel to the English Channel by waterway in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Thereafter he indulged in various abortive schemes for further expeditions and wrote numerous articles and stories based on his exploits, eventually settling into a quiet life as a hotel porter in London.
A variety of abortive schemes were proposed, including an 1864 proposal by the nominally independent Weald of Kent Railway to run a route from to Hythe via Cranbrook for which the SER obtained parliamentary authorisation as a defensive measure against a similar scheme proposed by the rival London, Chatham and Dover Railway.
This is one of the conclusions that emerge from questioning of American and Cuban participants in the abortive scheme to bring down the pro-Communist regime of Fidel Castro.
Carl Wilhelm Siemens of the eponymous German engineering company served as electrical engineer for a later abortive scheme, the Charing Cross & Waterloo Railway.
In the adult central nervous system, axonal regeneration is abortive.
Alabama's state and local tax take, now the lowest per person in the country, will still be near the bottom.Love thine enemyDespite these compelling numbers, the governor must overcome two of his state's most engrained characteristics if his scheme is to fare better than previous, abortive, efforts at tax reform.
After Loch's return to England in April 1895, Rhodes adopted his scheme (though seeking local colonial rather than imperial control over the Transvaal and its gold fields), which led to the abortive Jameson Raid in December 1895.
Efforts by Swedes and Prussians proved abortive.
