How To Use Scheme In A Sentence

In 2005, the Mugabe government launched what it called a slum clearance scheme, that bulldozed major shantytowns, brutally displacing hundreds of thousands of people. CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007
There wasn't a lot of information there; I had to expand on it, invent the colour scheme.
Such schemes help older homeowners to unlock money from their property without selling. Times, Sunday Times
The company has invested a great deal of time and effort in setting up new training schemes.
I don't think it would go down very well and would be seen as another arty-farty scheme.

It will also make changes to the research and development tax credits schemes by redefining them to make them easier to claim.
The livestock scheme is run on commercial lines rather than donations. Times, Sunday Times
Matters went on pretty well with us until my master was seized with a severe fit of illness, in consequence of which his literary scheme was completely defeated, and his condition in life materially injured; of course, the glad tones of encouragement which I had been accustomed to hear were changed into expressions of condolence, and sometimes assurances of unabated friendship; but then it must be remembered that I, the handsomest blue coat, was _still in good condition_, and it will perhaps appear, that if I were not my master's The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827
Faced with difficulties from recalcitrant landowners and political opponents, the scheme eventually necessitated financial rescue by the king himself.
This scheme enables you to budget the cost through fixed monthly payments.
The latest strategy is now seen dropping unsupported accusations across the media spectrum to the effect that the intelligence agency's assignment of Ambassador Joseph Wilson to look into the now-discredited Iraq/Niger/uranium claims were all part of a long-term insidious scheme to try and discredit the Bush Administration. Brad Friedman: Wingnuts Declare Coordinated All-Out Cross-Media War on CIA as Newest Front in TreasonGate!
At the end of the novel she marries the stockjobber, a leading promoter of the American railway scheme.
There's not much opposition to the scheme.
I'll agree to the scheme on one condition: my name doesn't get mentioned to the press.
Contact your local council to campaign for pedestrian schemes in residential areas.
Indeed, the schemes of co-determination in Germany constitute functioning examples of shareholders sharing control with one other stakeholder group, namely the employees.
Political opposition is mounting, and there have been calls for demonstrations against the scheme. Times, Sunday Times
Her schemes backfired on herself,and she lost her boyfriend forever.
Saxby Bridge has enthusiastically marketed all sorts of tax effective schemes involving things like tea trees, macadamias, wine and even online lingerie.
Finally, dissatisfaction with housing conditions produced schemes for slum clearance or improvement and substantial house-building programmes.
The scheme requires about 5,000 large organisations to report annually on their energy use and to buy carbon allowances in line with their carbon footprints. Computing
The national park is under renewed threat from road-building schemes.
However, the main problem with cap-and-trade schemes is that there no standard for calculating emissions. Times, Sunday Times
QI am thinking of opting out of my employer's company car scheme. Times, Sunday Times
Some of Britain's biggest coffee shop chains have signed up to a scheme to boost recycling of takeaway cups. Times, Sunday Times
There's way too much duality built-in to such a scheme.
The Scheme originally began in 1982 when it was funded through City Planning as a training programme for young adults with disabilities.
This consisted of the standard scheme with the addition of yellow and orange stripes to the rear of the fuselage and tailplane.
The company would offer a discount to farmers who buy tillers under this scheme.
Many cinema groups offer membership schemes with priority booking. Times, Sunday Times
We would expand the Smart award scheme for small companies which has been constrained by funding resources.
And in another boost to Land Securities' hopes of winning permission this time round, ordinary members of the public have given a generally favourable response to the scheme.
It followed as one consequence of these letters from Florence that Nora was debarred from the Italian scheme as a mode of passing her time till some house should be open for her reception. He Knew He Was Right
Those of you who remember the lime and ginger scheme will be pleased to hear that it has been redone using damson, with gold trimming.
By launching the commercial scheme in the guise of an athletic club it falls within the rules of the Amateur Athletic Association.
Employees who opt for the scheme will be expected to revert to their former employment contract once their children reach 14.
The scheme offers seed corn finance with loans at only 4% interest.
This experience makes a pilot scheme unnecessary.
It also questioned the fairness of two-tier charging structures in some schemes in which members ceasing to make new contributions were charged higher fees than active members. Times, Sunday Times
Seat offers 0% finance outside the scrappage scheme, but 8.9% with it. Times, Sunday Times
Offending drivers are to be pulled over as part of a pilot scheme and ‘given advice’ rather than booked, on the basis that it is pointless fining people for innocent mistakes.
The obvious impact of these principles has been to graft the legal aid scheme on to the existing structure of private practice.
The council claimed its ambition to support the results of the scheme financially could not be achieved unless more than 120 employees were made redundant.
Critics warn that the new hedges were often overvalued, allowing banks to minimise how much the redress scheme costs them. Times, Sunday Times
He'd got up from the kitchen table and pedalled up the hill from the old tenement in Shuttle Place through the Darroch Council house scheme.
The aims of the scheme are to demystify science in the eyes of students and to get scientists to explain what they do in normal, everyday language.
It's a wonderful scheme, and he's just the man to put it into effect.
It also has a public service obligation that means it has to enrol staff in its scheme if their employer is unable to. Times, Sunday Times
Otherwise you'll just have to pump as much as you can into the scheme through voluntary contributions, although scope here is limited as you are restricted to a maximum of 15% of your annual salary.
One of our daughters might one day want to take out a mortgage of her own and buy it from us outright, or as a parents-financed ‘shared equity’ scheme.
The scheme became a common trope in detective fiction, but there are almost no documented cases of a criminal forging another person's fingerprint.
Imposing such a burden would alter the basic structure between state and federal governments, which is critical to our constitutional scheme.
The new scheme is designed to take the strain out of shopping.
The former Mr. Marvels site, already closed, will be the hub of the scheme where a water park with health and fitness amenities will be created on the cliff top under a huge transparent bubble.
He added that to approach the scheme on a piecemeal sectional basis would be unacceptable and would prolong the uncertainty.
In the past six years, 41,000 shared ownership homes have been built and the new scheme will more than treble this number. The Sun
The system adopts vector control scheme of rate opening loop and magnetic linkage closed loop.
I am convinced that what there is of good in that theory of reform of our evils is not advanced toward embodiment in our law by the character of the men who make the Chicago platform an excuse to get the public confidence and carry out schemes of public plunder, political corruption and miscellaneous incivism. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
It will also be used for the provision of small public water and sewerage schemes in smaller towns and villages.
Side note: If the tables were turned and McGavick had a larger war chest than Cantwell we'd be bombarded with cries of "Big Money!" and schemes to reduce/eliminate financial support in senatorial races too. Sound Politics: Suppression of dissent in Mrs. Gregoire's Amerikkka
The lottery schemes are what is known as the ternary combination of seventy-eight numbers, being one to seventy-eight, inclusive; or in other words, 'three number' schemes. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City
The three companies have signed a deal that means that any large scheme involving roadworks over the next four years will be divided up between them. Times, Sunday Times
The energy giants have played hardball - and a scheme to make them fund the handouts has proved unworkable. The Sun
What's underlying this essay, instead, is Chuck's own implication in the whole scheme.
The new 100% Proficiency scheme has also brought an added bonus - a rapid reduction in the amount of waste materials during training.
The local council runs some good play schemes.
The scheme will cost in the region of six million pounds.
In the greater monetary scheme of things, of course, the dollar is still what investor Doug Casey calls ‘the unbacked liability of a bankrupt government.’
The trust obtained planning permission for the pay and display equipment despite fierce objections to the scheme by councillors.
The developers have included water features, seating area and shrubberies in the landscaped gardens which surround the scheme.
The university's exchange scheme for teachers has cemented its links with many other academic institutions.
I'll agree to the scheme on one condition: my name doesn't get mentioned to the press.
A fellow investor in my scheme, this is going to bankrupt him. Times, Sunday Times
Flood victims were furious today after planners called for a £1 million defence scheme at Stamford Bridge to be put on hold.
A pension can be an attractive perk, helping businesses to attract and retain quality calibre staff, especially if the firm contributes the bulk of the funds in the scheme.
The government has been encouraging individuals to opt out of the state pension scheme.
Another seemingly plausible, but impracticable scheme is feared to end up wasting the nation's energy and worsening social division.
It has changed the law to shut loopholes and successfully challenged many schemes in court. Times, Sunday Times
The scheme was dreamed up by a local businessman.
That may be of no account in the general scheme of things, but it calls into question the reasons for the Minister's office making such an obvious error.
Adding new homes to an existing neighbourhood is the best rebuttal to any scheme to clear out houses and build a high-rise.
Extensive simulation results demonstrate the validity of the novel half-rate rotational invariance joint space-frequency coding scheme and the performance of the direct decoding algorithm.
She undertook the organization of the whole scheme.
The new traffic scheme worked up to a point, but it had its problems.
He is full of praise for the scheme and has learnt a lot about printing and graphic design at the gallery. Times, Sunday Times
A poem of 14 lines in iambic pentameter, which follows the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efefgg. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lawyer-Poet
The aim of the scheme is to return the cathedral to how it was hundreds of years ago and the application is for a two-storey hostry extension to provide an entrance hall, education room, community room, song school, music library, vestries, chair store and toilets. Norwich Cathedral
Under the original scheme, title reverted to the Spanish Crown upon the death of the ecomendero (estate owner), but in time heirs were allowed retain rights by inheritance. Mexico's Colonial Era - Part 2
Those opposed to the application will cry foul, and those who have an axe to grind will jump on the bandwagon, heedless of the merits and demerits of the scheme.
Masham Parish Council wanted to add uplighters to the stone bridge over the River Ure at a cost of about £4,500, but the scheme is strongly opposed by North Yorkshire County Council whose officials say it would be illegal.
Three large-scale agricultural schemes, launched by private companies, all failed.
Not only did they provide the dictator with needed cash, but they played right into his scheme of using oil allocations to buy favor around the globe.
In the past six years, 41,000 shared ownership homes have been built and the new scheme will more than treble this number. The Sun
Meysman et al. also assign a "revolutionary" position to bioturbation in the grand scheme of evolution: "Benthic fauna had to adapt to the newly emerging bioturbated sediment conditions, thereby fuelling the 'Cambrian explosion'". Bioturbation all around you
For brides who want to individualise their place setting to match a specific colour scheme, can 'design their own' from a choice of 6 boxes, 12 ribbons and 25 decorations - giving a choice from 1800 options. Archive 2008-05-01
The first phase of the scheme applies to new-build property and was introduced in April. Times, Sunday Times
The toll scheme could generate £740m for public transport improvements, such as busways and trams.
He rallied great popular support for his scheme.
The Department claims that evidence available to them is that the scheme is working well in all respects.
When you began to work, you might work out a practical scheme.
In its present form the scheme is a non-starter.
Chairman of the panel told members the scheme would help to pave the way for more efficient uses of fuel in the 21st century.
The scheme rebounded on her in a way she had not expected.
ASSOCIATED PRESS Daniel 'Rudy' Ruettiger, pictured in 2005, whose experience as a Notre Dame football walk-on inspired the movie, settled SEC allegations that he took part in a pump-and-dump stock scheme. SEC Tackles 'Rudy' in Fraud Case
Whether the new personal pension works will depend much on how well it meshes with employers' schemes.
Another party I fell in with said you could generally always get bread; and the thing to do was to break a plateglass window and get into gaol; seemed rather a brilliant scheme. The Wrong Box
The debate in Birmingham has reached something like fever pitch, now that the city council is faced with two rival development schemes.
We expect to announce details of the scheme later this week.
People put up their homes as collateral in order to raise the money to invest in the scheme.
Bangladeshi water engineers say that Indian barrages, canals, reservoirs and irrigation schemes are slowly strangling the country and are stopping its development.
In short, the monad was the keystone of Bruno's all-embracing uni - versal scheme. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
It would be replaced by a mixture of housing associations, tenants' co-ownership schemes and further individual ownership.
Theory analysis and the result of simulations show that the scheme possess simultaneously both good behavior of servo tracking and stochastic regulation in adaptive control system of our design.
Thus the legal aid scheme permits those eligible to take the risk of litigation at the possible expense of the Fund.
Officers have now recommended approval for the Bell Autoelectrics scheme after a number of minor design alterations were made to the proposed building.
The company has restructured an incentive scheme to reflect the changed economic environment. Times, Sunday Times
I'm not getting involved in this fund-raising scheme if it isn't legit.
But now the wannabe mechanic has masterminded an innovative scheme to help put both himself and other youngsters on the road to success.
Financial consultants who mis-sell high-risk schemes do so because they are paid huge commissions by the fund management companies.
We must channel all our energies into the new scheme.
The government intends to wind the scheme down in early spring.
Walsingham assigns assistant secretary and chief intelligencer John Shakespeare to investigate the scheme and quickly concludes the Drake plot is tied to the murder of a relative of the Queen Lady Blanche Howard, whose corpse mutilated with numerous stabbings was found in a London fire. Martyr-Rory Clements « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
Ms. Crupi, 49, who joined the company in 1983 as a keypunch operator, had primary responsibility for a bank account that allegedly served as the main Ponzi scheme fund Mr. Madoff ' s firms used to receive investors ' money and pay redemptions. Two Ex-Madoff Employees Face Criminal Charges
The problem in banking is that ingenuity is invested in schemes to circumvent regulation. Times, Sunday Times
But Mousie, thou art no thy lane, in proving foresight may be vain; the best-laid schemes o 'mice an' men gang aft agley, an 'lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, for promis'd joy. Roy M. Pitkin: Happy Birthday, Robert Burns
Bernie Madoff got caught running what he called a hedge fund; thousands of uber-financiers are making off with billions running an even larger ponzi scheme that is perfectly legal. Leo W. Gerard: Q&A With Responsible Pension Investment Expert Thomas Croft
The council will also use the scheme to relax its ban on tenants of flats keeping dogs. Times, Sunday Times
All farmers in the area are asked to check drinking troughs for leakages as many householders in the scheme have little or no water.
The Defendant would then pay the incapacitated person that amount, less any pension contribution if he or she was in the pension scheme and less tax and National Insurance.
Net firms are in the process of moving to version 6 of the IP addressing scheme, which offers more than 3 undecillion individual numbers 3 with 38 noughts BBC News - Home
There is no pension scheme in operation for employees working less than twenty hours per week.
He takes his place in the new date-unspecific, genre-bending scheme of things with assurance rather than gaucheness. Times, Sunday Times
The Inland Revenue is also understood to be considering a more radical scheme, where some taxpayers who qualify for self-assessment might not have to fill in a tax return.
They claim that the government is secretly running down the Youth Training Schemes.
Since the scheme began, the South Korean car maker Hyundai has been the biggest winner, compiling an order book of 8,000 UK scrappage sales.
Now we have set aside and stewardship schemes where the production of food is secondary to the look of the countryside - all very laudable. Times, Sunday Times
Such schemes last for decades - far longer than solar panels or wind turbines - so they offer reliable green power. Times, Sunday Times
An ambitious reclamation scheme on the south coast also came to nothing around this time.
The dairy company said it would put an extra 30 million into the scheme and defer changes to early retirement rights. Times, Sunday Times
The scheme was brought about by the need to replace dying trees and a desire for a comprehensive improvement scheme.
The unfunded liabilities in entitlement schemes are already showing that they're reaching their tipping points a decade earlier than projected; for the last five months, Social Security has taken in less money into the "trust fund" than it has disbursed - in other words, the tipping point predicted (variously) in 2014, 2018, 2019, 2023, etc - it is here and now: social security is now having to be made whole by the general fund. Latest Articles
In Trainspotting, Begbie's blood boils at the backpackers who see the sights of the city centre but are blind to the blighted landscape of its surrounding schemes.
But it is the idea of introducing new innovative transport schemes, such as a mass transit system, that will draw the most attention.
There is no affordable housing in the scheme but this would most likely be provided on an alternative site in the borough. Times, Sunday Times
The scheme was pigeon-holed after a brief discussion.
One other authority has a joint budget with the health authority, funding a crossroads care attendant scheme and health care assistants.
Any pertinent changes must be notified in good time if the court is to sanction the scheme.
The simple plan evolved into a complicated scheme.
If Neill's mum is already a member of a good quality occupational scheme which has the backing of a stable and solvent employer that might be her best option.
According to the analyzing results, the measuring scheme is adjusted locally to eliminate the temperature effect.
Private data held by the government is often the result of legally required disclosures or of participation in formally optional licensing or benefit schemes where the government is as a practical matter the only game in town. Discourse.net: Government Data Breaches
He maintains that any scheme that requires humans to input metadata with their data will fail.
The scheme aims to seek out potential female leaders and actively remove obstacles to their promotion. Times, Sunday Times
He enumerated the benefits of the insurance scheme.
Money has been invested in the scheme to very little purpose.
The same Newtonian scheme applies here on earth-and out among the stars and galaxies-to some comparable accuracy.
Walking out to the train, I noticed that it sported a blue and white color scheme with black stripes unlike the usual forest green, cream, and mocha colors.
Without some sort of prioritization scheme, it will be difficult to focus limited resources on species, ecoregions, and habitats that are in need of conservation.
Bringing it back to Freshwater: it looks as though he was given a simplistic test scheme which he could game by playing the short-term rote memorisation card with his classes, while pandering to his own religious prejudices. Freshwater: The Board's rebuttal case - The Panda's Thumb
I don't believe there's any such thing as a foolproof scheme for making money.
Measures under the environmental stewardship scheme made no difference. Times, Sunday Times
The scheme requires about 5,000 large organisations to report annually on their energy use and to buy carbon allowances in line with their carbon footprints. Computing
Schemes such as interlinking of rivers could spell disaster for the environment, as they represent gross interference with natural processes, he says.
The scheme was approved by the Ministry of Housing.
It was a “Faustian bargain,” wrote one journalist, a “fiendishly complicated scheme,” in which the young liberal ministers sold their souls to a cabal of unscrupulous tycoons. The Return
Such schemes include tax amnesties, voluntary disclosures and special bearer bonds.
This shadow economy includes whole industries owned or controlled by organized crime, and rent-seeking and bribery schemes on the part of government officials.
The new appraisal scheme is only a taste of things to come.
The water needed to be tapped from a reliable spring four miles away raising the cost of the scheme to £3,000 - to be paid by the householders.
Although it does not fit the metrical requirements of a sonnet, Herrick's song follows a metrical pattern and rhyme scheme.
New timescales highlighted an autumn 2005 deadline for the council to decide whether or not to contractually commit to the scheme.
Any company using less than their free allowance will be able to sell the balance under the scheme to which over 100 countries have signed up, including all EU states as well as the designate members.
Like sonata form it is not a rigid formula, and therefore the scheme illustrated can be taken as only a rough guide to its general features.
Workers will take the money, which they richly deserve, but it should not stop us seeing the big agenda and confronting the share scheme.
You also have to sign up to a deposit protection scheme to safeguard the money your tenant pays up front. Times, Sunday Times
His scheme was revealed as he allegedly attempted to transfer $80 million in funds from legitimate accounts into accounts he controlled using fraudulent wire transfers and counterfeit cheques.
Such activity is closer to tax avoision, where avoidance shades into evasion, than are the government-sponsored schemes which are now to be arbitrarily chopped back.
As with other protectionist schemes, it is really about taxing Americans and imposing price floors to benefit a politically influential industry.
The scheme now being introduced is a comprehensive one covering all farm animals and poultry.
And although Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton yesterday blamed regulatory issues for the collapse of the deal, insiders have suggested that further improvements in the economic climate - and in Rio's financial position - since the scheme was proposed left Rio management feeling the terms unduly favoured BHP. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
Since April 1978 it has been possible for you to contract out of Serps via a final salary scheme, and since April 1988 via a company money purchase scheme.
(To do this, you have to break the copy-protection scheme -- an act that is specifically outlawed by the anticonsumer Digital Millennium Copyright Act.) Info With A Ball And Chain
Two investors that bought about $214 million of the so-called mezzanine debt filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging that lenders that provided $7.4 billion in financing to the buyer, Lightstone Group LLC, are engaged in a "scheme" to take over the property and wipe out the mezzanine investors. Hotel Creditors May Have an Extended Stay
I don't want to be associated with your scheme; I'm contracting out.
They are keen to progress with the scheme.
There will doubtless be continued and determined opposition to the scheme, while a change of government in 2015 could lead to a change in policy. Times, Sunday Times
Some farms do, however, need to undertake large capital schemes to satisfy the regulations.
Regardless of which scheme is used, the employer will have to enrol all staff in it automatically, unless they object. Times, Sunday Times
The report: “Deep Packet Inspection: The End of the Internet as We Know It?” highlights the use of DPI equipment by Comcast in throttling P2P traffic, in Cox’s traffic prioritization scheme, the role DPI played in NebuAd’s plans to monitor web surfing in order to deliver advertising, and the use of such equipment to introduce consumption-based broadband programs. DPI Doesn’t Kill The Open Internet, Carriers Do
Hard to imagine an underrated Ivy, but Cornell's MFA struggles to stay in the top 10 nationally despite boasting the third-best funding scheme in America -- even if you don't consider the fully-funded one-year lectureship virtually all graduates receive. Seth Abramson: The Top 25 Underrated Creative Writing MFA Programs
Getting all of this done is very easy thanks to the game's intuitive control scheme.
The Greek government today gave the go-ahead for five major road schemes.
Taking the water dropping scheme - the large-diameter vacuum deep well water dropping used in the pit construction of a grade separation and subway project as an example, the artic.
Staff who joined the scheme, also known as Sharesave, five years ago can double their money because they can buy cheap shares in the company at a price set at the outset, in this case Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
When it opened it was the first of Yorkshire Water's new coastal schemes to be commissioned.
What was the rationale behind the ludicrous decision to cutback on these schemes?
Quick Street implemented a new residents permit scheme last year, which has caused all sorts of aggro.
The government said it wanted to overhaul the employment training scheme to make it cost effective.
The paper didn't express a preference for any particular scheme of electoral reform.
But make sure you choose a scheme that ensures your holiday home is given back to you in tip-top condition. The Sun

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