Sentence examples for scheme that failed from inspiring English sources

With his first witness, Mr. Marra sought to show intentional wrongdoing by the defendants, detailing an alleged kickback scheme that failed.

The famed Waxman-Markey bill (essentially a cap and trade scheme) that failed to pass the Senate in 2009 was perhaps the closest the United States has come to taking serious action on carbon emissions.

In 1935, Roosevelt had endorsed Roerich's plan to prevent the bombing of cultural institutions and monuments by flying Banners of Peace above them — a noble scheme that failed to stop the firestorms of the Second World War.

In 1935, Roosevelt had endorsed Roerich's plan to prevent the bombing of cultural institutions and monuments by flying Banners of Peace above them a noble scheme that failed to stop the firestorms of the Second World War.

The irony is not lost on anyone that China is introducing the very scheme that failed to get through our own Congress amid calls that China would never join us.

Critics of the IBMP call it a politically corrupt scheme that fails to address the scientific facts of brucellosis.

A sampling scheme that fails to account for the localized effects of self-recruiting patches may create an appearance of panmixia, even if substructure exists among patches [ 7].

Some of the company's problems seem to have originated or grown worse under the leadership of Edward Lampert, a billionaire hedge-fund guy who took over in 2005 and engineered a bunch of reorganisational schemes that failed to fully reckon with the trend toward e-commerce and pilfered its assets.

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Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary, said public money had been "squandered" on schemes that fail to deal with the causes of social breakdown, which begins with truancy and worklessness but leads to gangs, crime, violence and children being taken into care.

Estate regeneration schemes that fail to meet the needs of existing tenants should be stopped.