Sentence examples for scheme was abandoned from inspiring English sources

Hong Kong's charging scheme was abandoned partly because errant spouses thought their whereabouts might be tracked.

During that period, M&S won so many "most admired UK company" prizes that the award scheme was abandoned for lack of competition.

Faced with defeat late in 1822, a Salvadoran congress sought adoption of a resolution providing for the province's annexation to the United States, but this scheme was abandoned when Iturbide's government collapsed in 1823.

The whole scheme was abandoned when, some weeks later, the East Germans began requiring any person travelling on a foreign passport to apply for a permit to enter East Berlin.

The scheme was abandoned soon after the aqueduct was completed, but Telford's feat of engineering is nonetheless staggering: his canal drops a mere 50 centimetres over the course of 11 miles.

The rest of the scheme was abandoned with the 1973 oil crisis, and something of its gargantuan craziness afflicted the long construction and subsequent reputation of Finch's sports centre.

Proposals for a more ambitious pavilion – twice as large as the current scheme – were abandoned in 2013 due to difficulties with funding and access.

Bravely sticking to their original plans may ultimately make heroes of a few bosses, but in most boardrooms caution is now the watchword as new schemes are abandoned in favour of defending what is already profitable.

While the Ottoman schemes were abandoned for various reasons, the project has never since been green-lit because of its sheer scale.

The LPTB commissioned its own, larger, railcar design, but by the end of 1936, it decided instead to electrify the Chesham branch, and the railcar schemes were abandoned.

Several examples are reported from Kenya by Finkel (1984) when soundly planned schemes were abandoned after poor results in the first year to two.