Sentence examples for fanciful scheme from inspiring English sources

Muppet he may be, but Big Bird is more real than Mitt Romney's fanciful scheme to balance the budget while sending Pentagon spending into the stratosphere.

In the 1960s American engineers dreamed up fanciful schemes to divert some of them to the south.

More than 150 titles were published featuring Jessica, the more flighty of the sisters, and Elizabeth, the practical one, who usually had to save the day when one of her sibling's fanciful schemes went awry.

Among these fanciful schemes is: "And then just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo / And bring back an IT-KUTCH, a PREEP, and a PROO, A NERKLE, a NERD, and SEERSUCKER, too!" The accompanying illustration for nerd shows a grumpy Seuss creature with unruly hair and sideburns, wearing a black T-shirt.

He and an associate pleaded guilty to fraud this fall after regulators seized Bayou's last $100 million as Israel was on the verge of gambling it on a fanciful international lending scheme.How about trusting a buddy with your money?

This was not an exercise in promoting fanciful ideas and far-fetched schemes.

In 1964 Gell-Mann introduced the concept of quarks as a physical basis for the scheme, having adopted the fanciful term from a passage in James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake.

Whereas the intelligence work that led to the destruction of Bin Laden was begun in the Bush administration, the cache of schemes taken from Osama's Pakistan house debunked the fanciful narrative that the Bush crew pushed: that Osama was stuck in a cave unable to communicate, increasingly irrelevant and a mere symbol, rather than operational.