Sentence examples for disastrous scheme from inspiring English sources

Thwarted at work (and in love) in his new country, he concocts a disastrous scheme: launch a killer computer virus and become a hero by ultimately stopping it.

Renault's special feeling for the relationship between a teacher and a student imbues the poignant finale of "The Mask of Apollo," her 1966 novel about an Athenian actor who gets mixed up in Plato's disastrous scheme, in the three-sixties B.C., to turn a corrupt Sicilian tyrant into a philosopher-king.

In the novel's account, the Earl of Chatsworth offers to leave food and supplies for the village at a boundary stone, and the inspiration for the whole disastrous scheme comes from Michael Mompellion, rector of the local church, whose dark and saintly sides blink on and off according to the demands of the plot.

What is clear, he reminds us, is that Nixon took an active role in the disastrous scheme to cover up the break-in because he feared that an outside investigation would expose a wide range of illegal activity of which he was aware, including phone taps, burglaries and a host of dirty tricks.

Fujitsu were a supplier on the NHS Programme for IT (NHSPfIT), a disastrous scheme that sought to digitise NHS medical information.

Particularly worrying is the new aim of dualling a large proportion of the Highways Agency network, to look again at environmentally disastrous schemes around Stonehenge and along the south coast, and the decision to end any guaranteed funding for green transport outside London.

Utah's governor, Michael O. Leavitt, blamed California's "disastrous deregulation scheme" for an 11percentt increase in electricity rates that a major utility is proposing in his state.

Thailand's attorney general filed criminal charges against Yingluck in February, accusing her of "dereliction of duty" in relation to the economically disastrous rice scheme, which paid farmers in the rural Shinawatra heartland twice the market rate for their crops.

The reasons why Bavaria joined the union had faint similarities to Scotland's disastrous Darien scheme: its monarch Ludwig II had nearly bankrupted the country by building ever more extravagant fairy castles such as Neuschwanstein, and only consented to the union after being bribed by Bismarck.

The politician responsible for a "disastrous" loan scheme has refused to back down over calls for him to resign.

It's the way it's always been because the alternative is to commit political suicide -- the most recent example was Bush's disastrous privatization scheme in 2005.