Sentence examples for treasure scheme from inspiring English sources

Japan's trade and industry ministry has, since 1974, had a whole department devoted to supporting 200 traditional crafts, and a Living National Treasure scheme guaranteeing recognised craftsmen the time and money to pass on their skills.

The exhibition has received a grant from Cyfoeth Cymru Gyfan (also known as the Sharing Treasures Scheme), a Welsh Government scheme to display treasures from national collections in regional museums.

In this first novel, a dissolute small-town jurist named Evers Wheeling punctuates his all-day boozing and dope smoking by taking a bribe from a mysterious woman and getting sucked into a disastrous treasure-hunting scheme.

"The finds reported through the portable antiquities scheme and treasure are changing our understanding of the past, helping archaeologists learn where people lived and died and how these finds were used," MacGregor said.

Bowen's testimony has an additional virtue that prosecutors treasure -- the fraud scheme he documented was easy to explain to a jury.

The Treasure and Portable Antiquities schemes are run through the British Museum, which reported the latest haul of 1,008 treasure objects and 82,272 archaeological finds in England and Wales.

All were reported through the treasure and portable antiquities schemes based at the museum, which maintains a network of finds officers across England.

The British Treasure Act and Portable Antiquities Scheme (both enacted in the mid-1990s) are widely advocated by collector groups as a viable system for the preservation of cultural property and the protection of individual freedoms.

If the old city's fortifications recall the days of pirates scheming to steal treasure that the Spanish had themselves purloined from all over the Continent, then the dark-skinned faces seen on the streets do as much to remind you that centuries of slave trading also served to fatten the city's coffers.

Although the find was reported under the Portable Antiquities Scheme, it was not declared treasure under the 1996 Treasure Act because single items of non-precious metal are not covered by the act.

Mr. Stadther isn't the first treasure master to create such a scheme.