Sentence examples for schemes foiled from inspiring English sources

In other words, Wineapple gives us history as it feels in real time: full of plans that backfire, schemes foiled by chance, outliers who suddenly change everything and happy endings that turn out to be not too happy after all.

Case study: Mass surveillance scheme foiled by local resistance An ill-fated plan by the West Midlands police to place several hundred CCTV cameras in part of Birmingham was scrapped in 2010 after a backlash from the local community which complained that the scheme was targeting the mainly Muslim local population.

Fortunately, Trump's efforts to launch a national voter suppression scheme were foiled, but one imagines that there is worse to come.

A masterly Civil War-era history, full of foiled schemes, misfired plans and less-than-happy endings.

We've delved deep into the relationships the Doctor has with enemies, investigated underwater ghost stories and foiled schemes with immortal highwaymen.

But such deadly schemes can be foiled if public health officials, scientists, and the police join hands across borders, a paper in the current issue of PloS Medicine shows.

The scheme would be foiled if you heard them doing so.

It may seem to be the tale of a foiled scheme to evade customs duty on imported Chinese rugs, but that's a smoke screen.

The scheme was predictably foiled when someone smelled gas.

The Yemeni announcement, which echoed other recent statements about foiled terrorist schemes, elicited skepticism and even some amusement among analysts.

"You've had all shapes and sizes, which is a challenge for law enforcement," Mr. Hoffman said, citing a shooting at a Little Rock military recruitment center, synagogues targeted for attack in the Bronx and foiled bombing schemes in Illinois and Texas, among others.