Sentence examples for scheme years from inspiring English sources

Sure, thousands of bicyclettes disappeared when Paris launched its Velib scheme years ago.

Joshie got it at auction for a mere eighty thousand dollars when the congregation folded after being bamboozled by some kind of Jewish pyramid scheme years ago.

Nobody was more surprised that the Securities and Exchange Commission did not discover Bernard L. Madoff's enormous Ponzi scheme years ago than Mr. Madoff himself.

At the House hearing in Washington, both Democrats and Republicans said that the Securities and Exchange Commission had failed to follow up on warnings and red flags that might have uncovered Mr. Madoff's scheme years earlier.

A civil trial against Arthur Andersen began in Phoenix with a lawyer for the plaintiffs, a Baptist foundation whose books the firm audited, maintaining that Andersen had ignored warnings that the charity was a Ponzi scheme years before it collapsed.

The trial of Arthur Andersen's second-largest financial problem -- its audits of a Baptist foundation that collapsed and led to criminal prosecutions -- began today with a plaintiffs' lawyer maintaining that Andersen had ignored warnings that the charity was a Ponzi scheme years before the foundation fell apart.

It will be able to ban "risky financial products" immediately, with the aim of avoiding lengthy and costly compensation schemes years later.

The Highways Agency had blocked the scheme for years.

If successful, the legal challenge could delay the scheme for years.

Tesco has been hoovering up information through its Clubcard loyalty scheme for years; computers can take that further.

Indeed, Amazon, the grand-daddy of web retailers, has been running such a pay-the-referrer scheme for years.