At what point do personnel considerations give way to a closer look at the overall scheme of things?

But looking at the scheme of things, it's very small in what ultimately I want to do.

He is the person at the top of the pyramid but in fact looks at the scheme from the bottom.

Not to mention non-whaling countries looking at the scheme and thinking "well they're doing it, why shouldn't we be allowed to?"

Which really was all right, when you looked at the scheme of things.

They 11 guess at the prettiest scheme I've had these twenty years!

But now the favors were all even, and I comprehended at last the scheme from which my dog had come.

We've also looked at the scheme across it's lifetime and accounted all the money paid in and out.

But a closer look at the scheme reveals that it goes well beyond the transgressions the bank owned up to.

"When you look at the whole scheme of things there needs to be much more."