The decline of Jacobitism left Charles making futile attempts to enlist assistance, and another abortive plot to raise support in England.

Returning to London he joined in the abortive plot of Christopher Love for the restoration of Charles II.

In the 1980's, he was implicated in, but never indicted for, an abortive plot to set up a white supremacist regime on the island of Dominica.

He was also involved in clandestine support for royalist conspiracies, such as the abortive plot of 1650 to land forces from the Scillies on the Cornish coast.

This humiliation caused Theodore's son, also named Theodore, to participate in the abortive plot of John Athalarichos to overthrow Heraclius in 637.

It ends with an abortive plot against fellow bosses and his withdrawal to Arizona, before damaging revelations link the Bonanno crime family to a vast traffic in narcotics.

We used to have meetings and talk grand designs - abortive plots which never quite worked out.

He also became involved in two abortive plots to depose Hitler, first in 1938 and again in 1939.

It was said that he was provided with a rotten ship in the hope that he would not return, but the reason of this abortive plot, if plot there was, is not exactly ascertained.

In late 1984, at least two informers reported to authorities on the first abortive plot to bomb Air India Flight 182, which flew out of Montreal at that time.