Sentence examples for stricken scheme from inspiring English sources

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This quasi-governmental agency, which insures companies' defined-benefit pension plans, swung from a $7.7 billion surplus in 2001 to a record $3.6 billion deficit last year as it took over one stricken scheme after another.

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Warning emails are just the first strike in the "three strike" scheme.

A "six-strikes" scheme, believed to be launching in the US in the coming weeks, is hoped to stem the tide of illegal content on the web.

Butler said that anticipating an increase in demand, North Yorkshire council has extended its local assistance scheme for stricken families.

(A state judge's decision to strike down the scheme is being appealed against).

Its color scheme struck me, on opening night and on the nights that followed, as somewhat peculiar.

Investigators said the scheme struck hard at the city's lifeblood, property taxes, which bring in $8.5 billion in the $40 billion city budget.

Mrs. Pitre's scheme struck Guay and Ruest as a masterpiece of devilish cunning, and they encouraged her to go ahead with it.

Attempting to redress past acts of discrimination did not qualify, but fostering a diverse student body did.The second, Gratz v Bollinger, struck down a scheme used by the University of Michigan, which ranked applicants on a 150-point scale and automatically awarded 20 points to black, Hispanic and Native American applicants.

The New Yorker, April 24 , 1926 P. 9Irvin Cobb recently attended party inapartment of Cosmo Hamilton and was struck by color scheme of Old English decorations, antique furniture, etc. "I don't know much about interior decorations, but I should say this is late Rutherford B. Hayes" said he. "About that period, Irvin, we call it Old English, Curve Out", said Hamilton.

Many died trying before a young cobbler struck upon a scheme to stuff a sheep with sulphur and leave it outside the animal's lair.

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