Sentences with phrase «backroom dealings»
"Backroom dealings" refers to secret or hidden activities and negotiations that take place behind closed doors or in private, typically involving influential individuals, with intentions that may be unethical, deceptive, or for personal gain. Full definition
Expected to last four to six weeks, the trial will have plenty of details about backroom dealings in Albany right under Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's nose, court filings suggest.
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Last time a unanimous Commons vote stopped him, after then culture secretary Jeremy Hunt's office was exposed for backroom dealings with Murdoch's people.
Through a constitutional convention, we can demand transparency to backroom dealings in Albany by mandating public oversight of budgetary decisions and requiring narrow, set purposes for all money funneled into the budget.
People have to wake up here that we are being overrun by shady backroom dealings just to get a woefully - unqualified scion elected.
Heineman is granted almost unimaginable access to the violence and backroom dealings of the lawless region, capturing everything from an entire village, housewives and all, turning on police who try to crack down on the Autodefensas to scenes of the white shirts slipping into the same, sadistic tactics as their enemy.
The trial, expected to last four to six weeks, will have plenty of seamy detail about backroom dealings, court filings suggest — from jokes about wanting more «zitti» in alleged coded references to bribes taken from «The Sopranos,» to using clout to influence state agencies and routing more than $ 300,000 in alleged payoffs to Percoco through his wife.
If you thought things are getting complicated with the USA Justice Department and backroom dealings with major publishers and hardware companies, you haven't seen anything yet.
Like Governor Cuomo and his team, we would like to see New York State government held up as an example of innovative thinking and doing, instead of scandal and backroom dealings.
While secrecy and backroom dealings are hardly the qualities of a well - functioning democracy, they represent business as usual in Albany — a place that 89 percent of New Yorkers believe has a serious corruption problem, according to a recent Quinnipiac poll.
Transparency, backroom dealings, they talk about this in Albany all the time.
This isn't a sports movie so much as a procedural about backroom dealings, double - crosses and high - stakes trades.
If you like paranoid thrillers filled with backroom dealings and hidden agendas that make you question how much information is out there that is too dangerous for the general public to know, Closed Circuit could have you looking at major events with a slightly more cynical point of view than you might have had going in.