Sentence examples for upon a scheme from inspiring English sources
To tide himself over, Mr. Giacchetto hit upon a scheme about as sophisticated as stealing Social Security checks out of mailboxes and cashing them.
In 1889, he hit upon a scheme he called A Pound a Week for Life!, which assured a perpetual income to the person who came closest to guessing the amount of gold in the Bank of England.
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.
A special focus is laid upon a scheme in which the control input is applied only partially over a limited length in the streamwise direction, but not on the entire wall surface.
If you stumble upon a scheme to make guaranteed profits, you don't kill the goose laying the golden eggs you demand a cut, especially if you know how futile it is to fight the system.
2008 ― Manafort and Gates embark upon a "scheme and artifice to defraud, and to obtain money and property by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises from the United States, banks, and other financial institutions," according to Mueller's indictment.
House Republicans have hit upon a noxious scheme to help pay for an extension of the payroll tax cut: a tax increase on millions of poor working families.
He lives in a swank West End Avenue apartment with his scruffy little buddy Jerry Feldman (Mr. Young), whose role in life is to go "uh-oh" whenever Alex embarks upon a harebrained scheme.
To begin with, the Democratic Party decided upon a new scheme for the primary calendar this year.
To achieve these two requirements (expressiveness and finitude) we derived a scheme based upon the observation of real-world alerts and its expression in natural language.
For example, by integrating capillary electrophoresis (CE) with matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization MS (MALDI-MS), a list of all possible sequences for the oligosaccharide is generated using a scheme based upon a property-encoded nomenclature (PEN) [21], [22].
