6 sentences with 'scheme'
Example sentences and phrases with the word scheme and other words derived from it.
• « Thus, the god Ahura Mazda was not "all-powerful" in the same way that the Jewish (and later Christian and Muslim) God was believed to be. Human actions mattered in this scheme because everyone played a role, however minor, in helping to create order and justice or impeding progress by enabling evil. »
• « The Stoics were one possible version of a philosophy that believed in the existence of fate, of accepting one's place in a larger scheme rather than resisting it, and also celebrated the idea that the rational mind was always more powerful than emotional reactions. »
• « The rural poor became more dependent than ever on the local landed class to adapt to the new scheme of things. »
• « In the grand scheme of the Nazi new world order, the Jews were to be somehow sidelined altogether and the Slavs were to be enslaved as labour for the "Aryans". »
• « Thus was born Regalos de Amor (Gifts of Love), an organisation whose activities are based on the scheme whereby a family in good financial circumstances sponsors a family in need. »
• « William Paterson introduced a New Jersey Plan to counter Madison's scheme, proposing that all states have equal votes in a unicameral national legislature. »