Sentence examples for inventive scheme from inspiring English sources

The aquatic centre and water polo are dominated by blue for water a less inventive scheme than some.

When I was in Albany in the late nineteen-eighties, the Cuomo administration came up with an arguably even more inventive scheme: "selling" Attica prison to New York's Urban Development Corporation, for two hundred million dollars.

She's come up with an inventive scheme that will also help fund some of the fuel for people in need; creating woollens, all labelled with a distinctive blue gentian flower logo, which is the area's linking relic to the last ice age, that are sold to raise money as well as giving people the opportunity to meet up and knit.

WASHINGTON -- A former Subway sandwich maker in Washington claims his employer used an inventive scheme to avoid paying him overtime: Creating fictional workers.

It's just as likely that Winslow himself wrote Cow Country and this is part of his inventive scheme to get the word out and even more likely that Pearson is just some small-time author who apes Pynchon's style a little too hard.

His more inventive schemes, involving engines, steamboats, and similar projects, brought him to financial ruin.

Collectively, The Guardian wrote, they show that the division "has for years been engaged in engineering numerous inventive schemes to avoid very large sums of tax".

His play is set partly in the present, where the quietly gay Sam is a Tory researcher with a passion for education: one of his more inventive schemes shows him going into a comprehensive to set up a mock parliament among the supposedly apolitical kids.

Fassbinder had invented some rather oddball characters for Eight Hours Don't Make A Day, such as the old couple, Grandma and Grandpa, who still had sex, came up with inventive schemes, and generally behaved more like young kids than old people.

In Pompeii and Ostia the walls and ceilings of almost all buildings, public and private, were painted in unified, inventive decorative schemes that encompassed a wide range of pictures, including landscape, still life, and figured scenes.

Numerous ambitious and inventive renovation schemes have foundered due to a lack of funds and political inertia but the attention on the Super Bowl bid has given the debate fresh impetus and a resolution finally seems near.