Sentence examples for in the vast scheme from inspiring English sources

I know it's profoundly insignificant in the vast scheme of things.

And in the vast scheme of things the major issues confronting modern Britain do not include the prevalence of group sex among the under-30s.

This was the bedrock of his life, which he would later see as having been divided into distinct stages: "When I was 30 I began my life; at 40 I was self-assured; at 50 I understood my place in the vast scheme of things; at 60 I learned to give up arguing; and now at 70 I can do whatever I like without disrupting my life".... Confucius was essentially a moral teacher.

But in the vast scheme of things, I was honestly quite surprised at the small scale of the problem that could wreck the business system to the extent that the newspaper might go under if it wasn't solved.

We have a role in this vast scheme of things.

His victims stretched around the world, with paper losses in the vast Ponzi scheme totaling $64.8 billion and cash losses nearing $18 billion.

Among the far-flung feeder funds, brokerage houses and institutions interconnected in the vast Ponzi scheme perpetuated by Bernard L. Madoff, one little-known local bank is now in the spotlight.

Andrew S. Fastow, the former chief financial officer of Enron, was charged today with engaging in a vast scheme to use off-the-books partnerships to fraudulently disguise the company's financial performance while enriching himself with millions of dollars in Enron's cash.

Government officials say the Somalis here were unwitting participants in a vast scheme to use legitimate financial transactions to generate cash for Al Qaeda, the terrorist network of Mr. bin Laden.

On the cassette, the aide, Jean-Claude Mery, who has since died, described in detail how a vast scheme for gathering kickbacks from people doing business with the city worked.

It's a grim prospect: a small priestly caste of seers with access to the ultimate source of knowledge, and the rest of humanity simply tools in their vast schemes.