Sentence examples for scrapheap from inspiring English sources

Visualise an average secondary school assembly with all its pupils: the young unemployed would fill 993 secondary schools, all their pupils on the scrapheap.

But are these decisions an example of the customer always being right, or has a future Transparent been wrongly consigned to the scrapheap?

"I was determined," he says of this programme, "that I was not going to end up on a scrapheap, determined I was going to go back to work".

Cowell has affected to chuck him on the scrapheap once before, only to relent, and almost every returning X Factor series has seen similar hokey cokey over the preciousness of Louis' position.

Carne said he had instigated a programme to tidy up a railway that was "frankly, sometimes a bit of a scrapheap", including picking up tens of thousands of tonnes of old rails and sleepers.

We watched the lot to determine which would be the next Transparent and which would be consigned to the digital scrapheap.

"At a time where general unemployment is going down and employment is going up, it is doing the reverse for this group… we have got a generation that is being thrown on the scrapheap, and what compounds it is that a disproportionate number are black, asian, minority ethnic".

DaimlerChrysler and BMW Rover both ended up on the scrapheap.

Chicago is undoubtedly back.Back, that is, from what many feared would be the scrapheap.

In 2015, watch America edge back toward old authoritarian allies and the Arab-spring movement hit the scrapheap.

Mr Darling pledged to save the unemployed from the "scrapheap" of 1980s legend; but his main remedy menial jobs for young people out of work for more than a year was austere.In this section Out the window Payback time?