Sentences with phrase «back room deal»

An executive (the great Sylvia Chang, who also wrote the source play) begins to see her power slip away while a hard - working young assistant (Wang Ziyi) tries to get his foot in the door, and everybody seems to be making a different back room deal or keeping a different secret.

The certificate also does not recognize that Brooklyn County Committee members were shut out of the process, their voices suppressed the backroom deals that led to today's shameful conclusion... Although erstwhile reformer Daniel Squadron himself asked for a full vote upon his resignation, he clearly fostered and approved of the back room deal to benefit his friend and chosen successor.

CSEA President Danny Donohue called the budget «another back room deal».

He derided Mr. Stringer as part of the «political establishment» and attempted to make an issue of Mr. Stringer's support for lifting term limits in 2008, saying in an advertisement that Mr. Stringer had cut «a back room deal to hand a third term to» Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.

«The SEEC and Gov. Malloy have completely violated the spirit of Connecticut's clean election laws with this back room deal... But for a few hundred thousand dollars all is forgiven by the SEEC and the governor's efforts to kill transparency triumph.»

The ad, entitled «Albany Tom», slams DiNapoli for being a career public servant («23 years on the public payroll»), and says he landed his job in a «back room deal».

It is too important for its future to be determined in a back room deal which would then be bounced on MPs with precious little scope for proper debate let alone public consultation.

And How old is Stanley Schein, the Real Estate Lobbyist, back room deal maker who got her the BRONX endorsement.

In a move the chairwoman of its local [East Hampton] chapter, Elaine Jones, characterized as a «back room deal,» Zachary Cohen has been replaced by Bill Wilkinson [registered Republican] as the Independence Party candidate for East Hampton Town Supervisor.

Schlag was active in leading the opposition to the Haddam Land Swap, a scheme to trade public conservation land to developers in exchange for other land in a back room deal.

It may take a convention floor fight — or back room deal — to sort this mess out.

Ironically the only way Pellegrino holds this seat in a general election with generic turn out is if she gets a pass in terms of an opponent because of a back room deal.

Thats one of many of many problems with our political system we get the choice of the party, (made in back room deals), for the candidate not the choice of the people.

«They are fed up with the back room deals and pay - to - play mentality that has become standard operating procedure in halls of Congress.

Boss Cox is throwing a «REAL» Convention with «REAL» candidates and «REAL» wheeling and dealing, parties, back room deals.

No stranger to capturing media attention with gimmicks and protest, Avella seems to have gotten this one right when he stated, «The culture in Albany of «What happens in Albany stays in Albany» has to stop... Assembly Member Silver... is now seen as the classic example of the dysfunction and back room deals that has plagued Albany for decades.

We cant accept these B / S votes and back room deals.

Kremer, with the school boards, says without an agreed upon means for distributing school aid, it goes back to the old days of back room deals.

I have never and will never abandon my values to cut back room deals with corrupt party leaders, but my opponent has.

In practice, fusion has become a game for the political elite, with endorsements by «paper parties» like the Working Families Party, Conservative Party, and Independence Party usually earned in back room deals with implicit — or explicit — trades of political favors and campaign cash (a recent NYPIRG investigative report found that the Working Families Party gets most of its money from the Democratic Party).

I believe in competition — something that you clearly didn't want, which is why you cut back room deals to get everybody else out of this race,» he said.

While explaining on - air that the Congressional candidates for Grimm's replacement would be decided by their respective county leaders, she also called for the process to be «open and transparent» and «without back room deals.»

In that situation these plans would add layers of process and confusion to legislating and lead to back room deals being made far away from the voters eyes.

«After four decades of back room deals and the culture of corruption that led to the well deserved conviction of Shelly Silver, the voters of the 65th Assembly district don't want another professional politician who is a product of the same Democratic clubhouses that gave us Shelly Silver, «he said during his acceptance speech.

It is clear to me that this culture of intimidation, back room deals, and working for your largest donors is one of the biggest problem facing our democracy.»

So don't begrudge us for knowing somebody that we always knew, and that was there in the trenches with us,» Mr. Sharpton said, saying he had never asked for favors or back room deals — only access and policy changes.

In all cases excellent loyalists to traditional conservative party principles have been held up as disloyal because they dared to call out the back room deals and patronage activities that have sold out Republicanism and disenfranchised the party's voter base.

I just intensely dislike the political shenanigans, lobbying, Corn Belt politics, and back room deals that went along with corn - based ethanol.

The story is not quite as black - hearted as the TV series but the representation of modern politics being the product of back room deals, manipulation and blackmail certainly retains its flavour.

Turns out, the dirty tricks and back room deals didn't stop while Gekko was incarcerated.

Tensions in the board room are at an all - time high, especially with back room deals and bribery tainting the water.

Answer: Making back room deals with one another and with the enemy?

Why don't we just admit that a billionaire and his foundation is doing back room deals with the Mayor and the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, deals which require taxpayer funds to be expended, and schools to be shut down, and this is going to happen whether the taxpayers like it or not because Mayor Segarra gets to appoint a majority of the BOE.

@revkin @nygovcuomo The fact that we didn't let the big greens come in and make back room deals was also important to note.

When you think of wildlife trafficking, it's easy to imagine back room deals or secret rendezvous.

Because the oil companies have the kind of influence over Congress that 12,000 Americans simply don't — through back room dealing and strategizing, they've managed to disingenuously tout the pipeline as a jobs and domestic energy issue.

While this move, the result of back room dealing between the GOP and Big Oil, has alarmed farmers, environmentalists and concerned citizens who have spent the last six months publicly organizing and peacefully fighting against the proposed project, there's reason to believe it could be a blessing in disguise.

Back room dealing took place — sometimes in more than one back room at once!

To the membership it looks like back room deals and self promotion and a mirror of Wall Street having tea with Senators.

Not exact matches

With a nearly 16 percent stake in Dell and ties going back three decades to the creation of the company out of his college dorm room, Michael Dell is seen as having much more at stake in the deal going through than Silver Lake, a financial investor that often walks away from deals.

By contrast, conservative American evangelicalism seems to have replaced it with ecumenism by stealth or default — fronted by celebrities, driven by branding, and governed not by honest and open theological discussion but by back - room deals and the needs of maintaining market share.

Tension was in the air as a good deal of back - room discussion took place.

There's all these stories of politicians making deals in this mysterious back room, and people shooting guns, and rock stars hanging out after the shows.

The journalist himself has even left room to back track should a deal not come off, by stating that Valencia are still «delaying» over possible other clubs becoming interested in the player.

Good news though diaby will be back soon, to sign his new contract, photos of the deal will be taken and a live stream available from the treatment room!

It's hard when they lie to us straight out, Arsenal's drop in form last season was meant to be a catalyst for change, we where told the back room was going to be overhauled for a smooth transition when Wenger finally left, we were told we where getting a D.O.F and then a week off the season finishes Wenger signs a new deal and the whole backroom staff got new contracts as well.

The left - back is going to move to Juventus in an # 8.5 million deal, meaning there will be room in Diego Simeone's squad for the return of the 29 - year - old.

Intrepid as always, Wertheim discovered a back staircase leading from the ring to the makeshift locker rooms, and this secret passage spared him dealing with an imperious security guard.

Arsenal may well not get as much back in terms of a transfer fee from this deal if it went ahead, but with the German champions Bayern Munich showing real reluctance to pay Alexis Sanchez the sort of wages he is said to be after, the only other options open to Arsene Wenger are selling to a Premier League rival or keeping him with the risk of having an unhappy and disruptive player in the dressing room for a year before he swans off for nothing anyway.

A more nuanced deal he also revealed came in simple things like kicking the ball long; academy footballers of all denominations are increasingly encouraged to play short passes and build from the back, but there is scarcely room for subtlety lower down the professional ranks, meaning he was now hitting as many as 40 or 50 long balls per game.