But all-seaters don't mean all-safe so why should clubs risk bankruptcy and fans pay through the nose for an ill-conceived scheme?

Poor architecture, ill-conceived schemes, mock-Tudor frontages may upset the planning officer, but how much regulation of this type of 'amenity-injury' will be publicly acceptable?

President Bush could extend his promising environmental record by abandoning an ill-conceived scheme to speed the deforestation of the United States - already far advanced - for the benefit of Japan.

Dwight holds a high-level of respect for Michael, viewing him as a model for success, and often participating with Michael's ill-conceived schemes.

With pollution prevention, there's no need for ill-conceived schemes like deep ocean dumping.

While we would accept that some local authorities have a poor record for building and maintenance dating from ill-conceived schemes in the Sixties and Seventies, social housing today has benefited from that experience.

Yet hasty and ill-conceived schemes were worse than useless, for they would absorb materials and skills that might tilt the balance between failure and success.

My terrible thirst was making me devise ill-conceived schemes to get water.

It's the moment of truth for the Gephardt amendment to the foreign trade bill, an ill-conceived scheme to punish countries whose exports are too popular with American consumers.

Congress now has a chance to protect American interests from the potentially far more devastating consequences of a similarly ill-conceived scheme - to allow 11 Kuwaiti oil tankers to fly the American flag.