Sentence examples for scheme himself from inspiring English sources

Many writers consider that Michelangelo had the intellect, the Biblical knowledge and the powers of invention to have devised the scheme himself.

Has Mitt used tax-dodging schemes himself?

But he never set out to turn his idea into a moneymaking scheme for himself.

A French aristocrat tied to Bernard L. Madoff (accused of operating a $50 billion Ponzi scheme) stabbed himself in his Manhattan office in December.

How else could he stash away £3m in a year in a tax-avoidance scheme, treat himself to an £8.5m mansion, and drive a Bentley?

After the IOC announced it was barring Russia from participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, for allegedly running a massive state-run doping scheme, Putin himself linked the move to a U.S. plot to undermine his re-election.

He even goes so far as to murder his own ailing father and frame the Imperial senators, to put an end to their scheming against himself and Larsa, and to level cities in nethecite testing experiments.

At his trial he defended himself by telling of a scheme planned by himself, Mercer, and two others to extort $42,000 from the Mercer family with a staged kidnapping.

Also involved: Churchill and Eisenhower, who had to sign off on the scheme, and Hitler himself, upon whose desk the fake plans ultimately landed.

For a moment we are inside the logic of Ripley's mind, feeling distaste for a scheme he has himself mooted.

"He promised fantastic returns but, as is so often the case with unauthorised investment schemes, those who invested ended up with significant losses and the main beneficiary of the scheme was Hope himself.