Sentences with phrase «backroom deals between»

You no longer care if Spider - Man's inclusion in the MCU is courtesy of corporate backroom deals between Sony and Disney; you're just excited to see the hero you know and love from the comics show up on screen.

In 2013, NPR's Allan Greenblatt listed a few: It's effectively a one - party state, with the Democrats so dominant that there is no political competition and machine politics set the agenda; the elections are expensive, making candidates reliant on donors; many key decisions, such as the shape of the state budget, are made in backroom deals between a few power players; the local media is so focused on national events that it ignores what's happening in the state (especially upstate); and there's no anti-corruption movement to challenge the existing culture.

Much has been made of backroom deals between the Chancellor George Osborne and Manchester City Council's chief executive Sir Howard Bernstein to deliver the most significant devolutionary settlement of Whitehall budgets in England.

Actually, the reason that they had «local control» in the south was the Compromise of 1877 which was a backroom deal between the Republicans and the Democrats to let Rutherford B. Hayes (who lost the election) become president if the federal government pulled all troops out of the south and let the Democrats take back control over the state legislatures.

Not exact matches

While it's likely that many of the earlier bills dealing with salaries were signed as a result of backroom - deals between governors and legislative leaders, this sort of trading had become fully public.

Details of a possible budget deal began to emerge after days of backroom negotiations between the Democratic governor and top lawmakers from the Assembly and Senate.

The potential for corruption is huge as backroom deals are made between politicians, the OLG and Good Fellas from Vegas.