Sentence examples for like scheme from inspiring English sources

Much of the day, Annie draped herself on her mother's lap, grinning at courtroom sketch artists as prosecution slides with phrases like "scheme to defraud" flashed on a giant screen.

Hence we had Thom Yorke and David Byrne railing against the evils of streaming – and Yorke's grand but flawed attempts to create a new way of selling music – either through a "pay what you like" scheme or via a legalised BitTorrent model.

The present scheme can be considered as a semi-Lagrangian like scheme.

Even though in this paper we are using a simple postal address like scheme for simplicity, any hierarchical geolocation representation system will work with PolyViNE.

Florida has used a federal waiver to set up a voucher-like scheme to let the poor buy private insurance.

I asked if he wanted to invest with me in a Ponzi-like scheme, robbing Peter to pay Paul.

The original charges received extra attention because they were part of an inquiry that resulted in accusations that Mr. Starr had operated a Ponzi-like scheme.

Those people worked together in what Tygart said was a mafia-like scheme to conceal the doping on Armstrong's teams and to keep those involved quiet about it.

He was fired from his post after his arrest on December 17 for engaging in what prosecutors called "a Ponzi-like scheme".

The government says in its filings that the losses resulted from what it calls a "Ponzi-like scheme," where fresh investments were used to disguise earlier shortfalls.

Because this is the era of industry freefall, Freese is trying a particularly Barnum-like scheme for this new record, which he is releasing in eleven different configurations.