traffic monitoring
Welcome to www.readbangkokpost.com
Back to homepageGet the best dealsCheck out Learning PostFind out more about us
These links are updated often
This is the Bangkok Post's today's front page


Words in Business News
By Jon Fernquest

A| B| C| D| E| F| G| H| I| J| K| L| M| N| O| P| Q| R| S| T| U| V| X| W| Y| Z
[Thai Economics Library | Archives (for history)]
July 10, 2007

Scheme

a scheme (noun) - a plan

schemes for
devise a scheme to
come up with a scheme to
prepare a scheme to
produce a scheme to
propose a scheme
getting a scheme accepted
under the scheme
based on a scheme

go ahead with the scheme
implementing a scheme
carry out a scheme
take part in a scheme

a scheme that works
a scheme that works out
knowledge to understand a scheme
know about a scheme

fit into a scheme
fit into the scheme of things as a whole
in the greater scheme of things
let a scheme die on the vine
put the scheme on ice

a visionary scheme
a scheme to help x
a voluntary scheme
a great scheme
a grand scheme
a grandiose scheme
a color scheme

a mad scheme to
a hare-brained scheme
a speculation scheme
a get rich quick scheme
a chain letter scheme
a pyramid scheme
a ponzi scheme
a fanatic's scheme
a mono-maniac's scheme
a schemer

aa economic stabilisation scheme
a deposit insurance scheme


Example sentences:

* Please don't tell me about another get rich quick scheme.

* The central bank governors discussed the new deposit insurance scheme during its monthly meeting.

* He had a mad scheme of founding a mini Akha state in the jungle along the Burma-Thai border.

* Yes, you've found a truly pleasant color scheme for this room.

* Does this element of the plan fit into your scheme of things for the future?

* He had trouble in getting his visionary scheme accepted by the powers that be.

* The committee proposed a bailout scheme to help banks after the financial crisis.

* He was not sure whether this scheme would work or not.

* Without the stabilisation scheme the economy would be in a wreck.

* Beware of highly attractive ponzi schemes, usually pitched to you by people who come up to you on the street and want to make friends.

* They knew about the scheme in advance.

* "Let's devise a scheme to make Fidel Castro's beard fall out."

* I hope to make a million baht quick with the chain-letter pyramid scheme I've cooked up in my spare time.

* He did everything he could to keep the scheme from blowing up in his face, but it was too late.

* In six months, working virtually single-handed, he prepared a scheme to irrigate the entire Chao Phraya delta.

* Sixty years later, the Greater Chao Phraya Project was built based on van der Heide's scheme, confirming his reputation as a visionary.

* He did not have the knowledge to understand the scheme.

* King Chulalongkorn's government became interested in irrigation because many private enterprises had begun to dig canals in schemes of land speculation.

* Prince Damrong recognised that van der Heide's scheme had a real vision, but Damrong was engaged on more important matters.

* In essence, the king let van der Heide's scheme die on the vine.

* While his grand scheme was put on ice, van der Heide busied himself with minor projects, and wrote pioneering studies on the political economy of the Chao Phraya delta.

* He sowed the historical record with reports condemning van der Heide as a fanatic for grand schemes with poor understanding of Siam's ecology and society.

* The moment for implementing van der Heide's scheme had passed and would have to wait for two generations.

* In a trice he had produced his great scheme and a slew of memos about its benefits.

(Source of some sentences: Bangkok Post Article)



Bangkok Post's front page
Back to top :: Home :: The Learning Post :: About us
© Copyright The Post Publishing Public Co., Ltd. 2006