Sentence examples for schemes failing from inspiring English sources

With government schemes failing expensively on all sides, it's easier to prevent the unemployed claiming unemployment benefits than to find them work.

City institutions including Royal London Asset Management are unhappy about the company lowering the performance targets in its bonus scheme, failing to hire a new finance director for 18 months and buying stakes in rival retailers such as Tesco and Debenhams.

When a reporter asks whether the mayor has truly considered the consequences of the scheme failing, especially with his re-election campaign only a year away, Livingstone's nasal Cockney voice, already as affectless as a door buzzer, drops to a full deadpan.

For years Mr. Obama, like George W. Bush before him, has relentlessly pushed forward with immigration enforcement schemes while failing to give any relief to millions desperate to shed their illegal status.

Ministers should rethink the expensive support given to disabled people to find paid work as flagship employment schemes are failing the most vulnerable in society, according to a government adviser on disability.

As young unemployed people under a Tory government that wants to demonise and scapegoat us for the consequences of a global economic crisis, Polly Toynbee's article (These empty apprenticeship schemes are failing our young, 9 February) exposing the hollow nature of the work programme is a welcome one.

Modi's government has also revealed a fine talent for announcing grandiose schemes and failing to finance them.

The SEC and other regulators have in recent years spent more resources cracking down on alleged Ponzi schemes after failing to uncover Bernard Madoff's fraud faster.

We know that their intentions are honorable and intelligent, and we strongly suspect that they realize that economic investment in NIH-funded biomedical research will gain a better return on the dollar than bailout schemes for failing companies that did not develop new technologies fast enough to compete in the global market.

By the end of 2007, that trading scheme was failing; last month it was on life support.

But Andy Elvin, a spokesman for Tact, warned that the scheme risked failing to account for the needs of thousands of children for whom adoption was not the best solution.