Sentence examples for damaging scheme from inspiring English sources

As for Mr Ortega, who has long been chummy with private businessmen, his espousal of a quixotic, Chinese-backed and environmentally damaging scheme for a trans-Isthmian canal looks like a search for elusive rents to sustain his family's grip on power.Mr Morales and Mr Correa, who won re-election last year, may be riding high now.

It said the "damaging scheme" would have a severe impact on Norwich, which it described as one of Europe's great historic cities.

To test ozone damaging scheme, we perform 17 sensitivity tests (Supplementary Table 2) with different levels of [O3] and sensitivity coefficients.

And if they could agree to that, what other damaging schemes might they grab for in some future crisis?

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has called it "the largest and most financially damaging corruption scheme ever conducted within city government".

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has called the scandal "the largest and most financially damaging corruption scheme ever conducted within city government".

Last week, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg called on federal Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein to impose "substantial punishment" on the 18 defendants indicted in what the mayor called "the largest and most financially damaging corruption scheme" in municipal history.

A person close to him said that Mr. Schussler had decided to make a decision on Monday, the day he died, on whether to forge a defense for his trial, which was to begin Jan . 27 or plead guilty and tell all he knew about what Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has called "the largest and most financially damaging corruption scheme ever conducted within city government".

The Campaign to Protect Rural England praised the decision to drop a "daft, highly damaging and costly scheme", but warned that widening the road would encourage people to move out of conurbations and commute back in.

"This is possibly the most damaging tax avoidance scheme in the last decade, as it has a direct impact of virtually every single UK retail business," complained the lobby group Retailers Against VAT Abuse Schemes.

The United States attorney for the Eastern District, Alan Vinegrad, called the case "one of the most financially damaging Long Island corruption schemes in many years".