Sentence examples for failed scheme from inspiring English sources

Also under scrutiny were spiralling staff costs and a failed scheme to sell Gordon Ramsaucesanded sauces.

Mr. McCann was defeated for re-election in 1985, and before he was re-elected in 1989, he became involved in a failed scheme to build a marina at Liberty State Park here.

Gruden, a former quarterbacks and receivers coach, never cited Mangini or Daboll as culpable parties in a failed scheme that has made the Browns a team that rarely scores touchdowns.

The historian Mark Geiger links the rise of bushwhacking to a failed scheme by Missouri Confederates to finance their rebellion against the state's Unionist government; when the rebellion collapsed, many of its members – drawn largely from Missouri's well-off, slave-owning class – were left with enormous debts.

The 1707 union between Scotland and England came about, partly, because Scotland was all but ruined by the failed scheme.

I mentioned above that I was waiting for the DfE to tell me how much the failed scheme cost.

So far it has bailed out 800 failed schemes with 222,000 members, at a cost of £1.8bn.

Levandowski keeps a collection of vintage illustrations and newsreels on his laptop, just to remind him of all the failed schemes and fizzled technologies of the past.

Full of self-pity and grandiose failed schemes, Carter claimed that he'd had a Hollywood screen test, and that the studio had wanted to rename him Brush Carter.

The exhibition is chronological, and the early years are a story of big dreams and failed schemes for replacing the ferries and railroad barges that got people and goods across the Hudson until the early 20th century.

The retirement plans of tens of thousands of steel workers have been thrown into disarray after their pensions were pushed into the Pension Protection Fund, the government lifeboat for failed schemes.