Sentence examples for insidious scheme from inspiring English sources

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Set in the administration of the first President Bush, the book has the dying political consultant Lee Atwater devise the fake war as one last insidious scheme to re-elect the president.

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Prime Minister Netanyahu's move to expand his coalition to include Kadima with 28 Knesset members provides him with a majority of 94 out of 120 parliamentarians and represents nothing short of an ingenious political coup or an insidious political scheme, depending on what he does with his historic mandate.

This spring, however, Mr. Trump got wind of a far more insidious and stealthy scheme (dubbed Montezuma's Revenge).

I'm in a dangerous situation, a scheming, insidious plot.

Except for one unfortunate rant, his insidious right-wing schemer is almost likable.

Metallica started its lawsuit in April, calling Napster an "insidious and ongoing thievery scheme".

There were no gimmicks, no discount coupons, no hidden advertising, no keep-'em-coming point-card schemes, no insidious, loopholing paper trails.

More and more Americans are falling victim to one of the most insidious bait-and-switch schemes in U.S. history.

The complex plot joins sex, money, and power, as when T.C. tries to buy off the gambler (Wendell Corey) whose father T.C. had killed and for whom Vance has fallen, or when Vance battles T.C.'s aging, insidious consort (Judith Anderson), who is scheming for control of the homestead.

The particularly insidious element of the promissory-note schemes, the authorities say, is that the elderly are often defrauded by people with whom they have successfully done business in the past.

Subtler, more insidious.

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