Sentence examples for schemes means from inspiring English sources

Sky-high unemployment and a pause in graduate trainee schemes means competition for jobs is fierce.

The second problem is that poor performance of existing schemes means that banks now think trams are risky.

Moving from large investments in mega-projects to smaller amounts across multiple schemes "means being project financed, which is high cost".

Stephen Teagle, managing director of affordable housing and regeneration at developer Galliford Try, says the popularity of shared equity incentive schemes means they will continue.

Big transport projects could be sacrificed: the government's fetish for such schemes means the returns to further investment are likely to be low.

This message was especially urgent to communicate as the move to defined contribution pension schemes means that people "will have to save at least 10% of their salary for most of their working lives," said Andy Baldwin of EY.

Card schemes mean less fraud, too.

So I thought that being a writer and having no assets, savings, investments, or pension schemes meant that I was blissfully exempt from the credit crunch.

He has come west full of idealistic schemes meant to benefit the Indians, only, as someone puts it, to "preside over their destruction".

Complicated bonus schemes meant executives did not know how they were being paid and set up secret spreadsheets to work out what their bonuses could be, said Truell.

Wall Street investment banks are marketing and selling complex schemes meant to allow foreign investors, including offshore hedge funds, to avoid paying billions of dollars in dividend taxes illegally, according to a Senate subcommittee report released Wednesday.