Sentence examples for cooked up a scheme from inspiring English sources

The British secret services had cooked up a scheme for the Daily Mail to publish a false report of an internal Kremlin coup against the post-Stalin reformers in the Soviet leadership.

But the judge's refutation is a blow to Mr Nisman's main theory, that Ms Fernández and the foreign minister, Héctor Timerman, cooked up a scheme to shield Iranian suspects in the bombing in exchange for a trade deal that would bring Iranian oil.It is unlikely to ease the political tension.

Joy has cooked up a scheme to link any digital device — palmtop to supercomputer — with another.

So he cooked up a scheme to issue billions more in new securities designed by him to fail.

What if, during his 12-hour abduction by Nazir, Brody cooked up a scheme with Nazir, and what if that plan consisted of the abduction of Carrie and the killing of Walden?

His friends, including Kate Winslet, cook up a scheme to try to help him through it.

Mordant fiction about young Americans who cook up a scheme involving fraud, heroin and Cambodian drug lords.

This first novel (the author died in 1999 at the age of 33 of an apparent heroin overdose) is a black comedy about a pair of privileged young Americans who cook up a scheme involving fraud, heroin and, worst of all, Cambodian drug lords.

And somebody somewhere who isn't too leveraged will cook up a scheme to turn a buck or buy some cheap assets, and debt levels will rise.

Desperately reaching for an excuse to bounce the country's legitimate democratic leader into prison, the regime has cooked up a bizarre scheme to use the visit by John Yettaw and to then apply Article 22 of the State Protection Law, which prohibits any Burmese to accept a foreign visitor – even an uninvited one – for an overnight stay without state permission.

The scene then shifts to Greene's native Georgia, where a public relations man working for the segregationist Gov. Marvin Griffin cooked up a publicity scheme to fly the survivors and their families to a new coastal resort, only to discover too late that the miner already anointed as the greatest hero of them all, Maurice Ruddick, was black.