6 sentences with “scheme”

The rural poor became more dependent than ever on the local landed class to adapt to the new scheme of things.

William Paterson introduced a New Jersey Plan to counter Madison's scheme, proposing that all states have equal votes in a unicameral national legislature.

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.

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.

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.