What's the difference between planner and schemer?

Planner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who plans; a projector.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The methodology, in algorithm form, should assist health planners in developing objectives and actions related to the occurrence of selected health status indicators and should be amenable to health care interventions.
  • (2) But Abaaoud, the man thought to be a key planner for the group behind the Paris attacks, boasted to a niece that he had brought around 90 militants back to Europe with him.
  • (3) Because what do you do: do you have an urban planner, or do you have a social worker?
  • (4) It is, in fact, quite astonishing to find British housebuilders and planners going along with the design and construction of such decent new homes.
  • (5) It will also oversee an in-house review by the bank into the advice its financial planners gave to customers during that period.
  • (6) These distinctive characteristics have often been overlooked by community planners who know little about elderly Chicanos and assume that all their needs can be met by their families.
  • (7) Physicians and planners of CME must be aware of what types of educational activities are best suited for their needs.
  • (8) They show that before democratically elected planners were due to decide on whether to grant planning permission, Charles briefed Sir Simon Milton, the official in charge of planning in the capital, about his concerns.
  • (9) They also say that the planners of the Diamond Jubilee are very interested in their ideas.
  • (10) As for Lord Rogers’s modernist estate at Chelsea Barracks , it was local opposition that caused Westminster planners to indicate rejection, leading the Qataris to withdraw their plan.
  • (11) In a statement to the Guardian this week, Exxon spokesman Richard Keil reiterated: “ExxonMobil does not fund climate denial.” Alec, an ultra-conservative lobby group, has hosted seminars promoting the long-discredited idea that rising carbon dioxide emissions are the “elixir of life”, and was behind legislation banning state planners in North Carolina from considering future sea-level rise.
  • (12) This pressure, by a letters campaign to the FCO, was initiated by Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine with human rights organisation Adalah-New York , followed by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, former BBC correspondent Tim Llewellyn and hundreds of others.
  • (13) The implications of these findings are significant for future research in CME and for planners of present CME programs.
  • (14) They say that local authorities should be a voice for local communities and parents, a planner and commissioner of school places and provider of schools especially in the primary sector.
  • (15) That prospect, rather than new freedoms to beat up town planners, is likely to obsess boardroom directors in consumer industries.
  • (16) Developing skills in asking questions and securing information from the insurance company has become the responsibility of hospital discharge planners and home care nurses.
  • (17) Military personnel will deploy to Sierra Leone next week where they will join military engineers and planners who have been in the country for almost a month, overseeing the construction of the medical facilities.
  • (18) Programme planners must involve the consumers in diagnosing these community characteristics and in planning, supervising and maintaining the resulting projects.
  • (19) This publication consists of guidelines to assist health administrators and planners in planning, implementing, and evaluating malaria control programs that reflect the reorientation of the World Health Organization malaria control strategy endorsed by the World Health Assembly.
  • (20) But when I started turning up at strategy meetings at 6.45am each day in Millbank Tower, key planners such as Robin Cook and Patricia Hewitt took to going into corridors and lowering their voices, making it obvious that they disapproved of my presence, which they regarded as proof of Kinnock’s fatal susceptibility to flattery.

Schemer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who forms schemes; a projector; esp., a plotter; an intriguer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Davis gained a reputation as a schemer and emerged as shadow home secretary.
  • (2) He eventually gets off a low rasper but Mokin gets down to make the save, 9.17pm BST 72 min: Canas, a lovely schemer in the heart of Karagandy's midfield, is gaining in prominence, as the visitors continue to search for the killer goal.
  • (3) West Germany bring in two impish schemers, Thomas Hässler and Olaf Thon, for Pierre Littbarski and Uwe Bein.
  • (4) There are cats and dogs called Tyrion, after the schemer played by Peter Dinklage, and a growing generation of girls named Arya and Sansa in honour of the long-suffering Stark sisters.
  • (5) The former Luxembourg prime minister landed the job by an overwhelming majority because national leaders sleepwalked into a trap laid by federalist schemers in the European parliament and could not summon the will to do anything about it, just as they appear to have overlooked reading the fine print of the legal text that governs Europe.
  • (6) This, as in Robert Graves's original novel, draws on the works of the ancient biographer Suetonius, to depict the wife of the emperor Augustus as a monstrous schemer, poisoning every unfortunate who got in the way of her plan to have her own son Tiberius (from her first marriage) installed as Augustus's successor as emperor.
  • (7) Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Belarus's Alexander Lukashenko, North Korea's Kim Jong-il, and Venezuela's Hugo Chávez have all claimed at various times to be victims of foreign, usually American, schemers.
  • (8) The iconic Uruguayan schemer Enzo Francescoli thinks the difference is the dual experience South American players have of top-level football on their own continent during a gruelling qualification campaign allied to regular club football in Europe.
  • (9) On screen, he plays dreamers and schemers: men with prodigious appetites and a wonky moral compass.
  • (10) So the campaign has to use two CEOs from a decade-old accounting scandal, and a garden-variety Ponzi schemer."
  • (11) He is a well-known Mugabe confidant and schemer, nicknamed the crocodile , who has been suspected of plotting behind the scenes and using the first lady as a front to clear his way to the top by discrediting his rival, Mujuru, and purging her allies.
  • (12) On the flank you have less of that responsibility.” Welbeck also helped Wenger justify his faith in retaining Mesut Özil by playing the pass from which the German schemer scampered through to open the scoring after 32 minutes.
  • (13) Anyone who thinks she was a schemer who wanted to be queen, or Princess of Wales, or anything, absolutely has her completely wrong.

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