Sentence examples for bad scheme from inspiring English sources

This holds dangers, since a president may buy congressmen's votes for a bad scheme by promising not to veto the pork those congressmen care about.

A swift ruling to stop these new "joint committees" would help end a bad scheme before it becomes a political tradition.

It is shaped, not mainly by its citizens' wishes nor by its founders' intentions, but by the deals done each day between ministers and civil servants in Brussels, usually behind closed doors, endorsed by a parliament to which few outsiders pay heed.That is not necessarily a bad scheme.

"So it may have been lawful, but clearly the secretary of state accepts that it was a bad scheme, and not one that she is prepared to continue with".

You're not playing Deep Crimson for its multi-layered gameplay, for its sole playable male, its pair battles or its tangled tale of... sorry, again, no idea, but I get that the baddies aren't all that bad in the big scheme of things.

"Bad schemes had elaborate mythologies, tales of rapes and crucifixions, of vicious gangs and gangster families and neighbors dead for months behind the door.

Criticizing the Republican bill as a sham, a hoax, bad medicine and a risky scheme that would "privatize" Medicare, the Democratic minority used a variety of parliamentary and procedural tactics to delay the work of the House.

Mr. Matthews: "It's a bad Ponzi scheme, at this point".

Rockstar sometimes punishes such players, introducing a "bad sport" scheme to highlight them to others.

Putting the Rock in a hard place, Rawson Marshall Thurber's film casts Dwayne Johnson as a former FBI agent trapped in a ludicrously tall building while a fire rages and bad guys scheme against him.

A "constant attack" indicates that a fraudulent rater consistently provides unfairly high (low) ratings to the target entity in a ballot stuffing (bad mouthing) scheme.