Sentence examples for fanciful plan from inspiring English sources

After the fall of France, he traveled to Madrid, where he was subjected to a fanciful plan of the Nazis to remake him king and to use him against the established government in Britain.

The US is urging alternative energy solutions on Islamabad, including a notional and, given the security issues involved, rather fanciful plan for a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to India via Afghanistan and Pakistan.

By the early 1950's, the pioneering rocket scientist Wernher von Braun had already worked out a detailed, if fanciful, plan for sending a fleet of 10 colossal spaceships to Mars, powered by conventional chemical rockets.

The current prime minister, who campaigned on a fanciful plan to talk the Pakistani Taliban into peace, has succeeded in dominating the vote in populous Punjab province, where the PPP will have to regain support if it is ever to win again.Mr Sharif's daughter, Maryam, is being groomed for a life in politics.

Democrats described the resolution as a fanciful plan that was nearly as bad as the White House budget in ignoring the dire fiscal problems the nation will face as baby boomers begin to retire after the turn of the decade, straining Social Security and Medicare at the same time that Mr. Bush intends for his tax cuts to be made permanent.

Designers have laid out fanciful plans for amenities like a cocktail bar, a gym or sleeping rooms, but the early Boeing 747's had such frills too, and they mostly gave way to plain old seating space.

After the onset of this "dark ages," Dr. Kay said, Iraqi scientists realized they could go directly to Mr. Hussein and present fanciful plans for weapons programs, and receive approval and large amounts of money.

Why is it acceptable to dissect Newt Gingrich's fanciful plans for making the Moon a 51st state but not his implicit suggestion that Pope John Paul II was responsible, via divine intervention, for the fall of communism?

The fanciful backup plan was no longer a gag.

Mostly he let his thoughts roam over fanciful escape plans.

Economic pied pipers have appeared before in the Catskill Mountains with fanciful revival plans that quickly evaporated, but local political leaders have embraced Mr. Cappelli's proposal as a substantive development that could bring new life to the area.