Sentence examples for an outlandish scheme from inspiring English sources
So the former spy, running his network with money from unidentified donors, came up with an outlandish scheme that seems to come straight from the C.I.A.'s past playbook of covert operations.
This priceless crime caper takes the disaster-prone burglar John Dortmunder to upstate New York, where he and his gang of goofs team up with some out-of-state con artists on an outlandish scheme to bamboozle two Indian tribes out of a piece of their casinos.
"It is an outlandish scheme".
The broad allegations against Mr. Luthmann were contained in court papers charging him with running an outlandish criminal scheme from his office on Victory Boulevard, a few blocks from the Staten Island Expressway.
In "Argo," directed by and starring Ben Affleck, and based on real events, he plays one of six American diplomats who were extracted out of revolutionary Iran in an outlandish C.I.A. scheme that had them pretending to be a Canadian film crew.
Overcoming various obstacles including the arrival of Ocean's wife (Angie Dickinson)—the men pull off the outlandish scheme but run into trouble when they try to leave Las Vegas with the money.
Federal agents have acknowledged in court that they didn't know whether Crawford was serious about his outlandish scheme at first and in any case experts have said the ray gun would have been impractical even had it been constructed.
Each outlandish scheme proposed during the fun-run take, in which the actors ad-lib, has Samberg wound up and playing with what they've doled out (e.g., the script's mention of Tonya Harding becomes a one-liner about the ice skater turned tabloid staple that would make for a charming hand-stitched pillow: "Crazy in life, crazy in bed").. FULL COVERAGE: FALL TV Preview 2013.
Then Nasheed proposed the mass exodus, an idea that called to mind other outlandish schemes, like one Saudi prince's thought of supplying drinking water for the Arabian peninsula by towing icebergs from Antarctica.
The most outlandish schemes promised 25percentt interest a month; the most conservative and biggest scheme, Vefa, promised 8percentt.
For his part, Mr Rubin has described his project as a "moonshot" – the term Google applies to its slightly more outlandish schemes, such as self-driving cars and using a network of blimps to bounce internet signals to remote regions.
