Sentences with phrase «backroom maneuvering»

The campaign by science advocates included plenty of backroom maneuvering and some very public drama, including the Capitol Hill arrests of science graduate students who demonstrated against a plan to tax tuition waivers.

The L.M.D.C. statement about Menin's being removed from the grant advisory panel saying that the Mayor and the Governor have appointed new members to us smacks of obfuscatory backroom maneuvering and simply adds up to the L.M.D.C. trying to pass the onus for a non-transparent decision onto their political patrons.

Rachel Gold, treasurer of the existing WEP, tells the website Tkaczyk's «backroom maneuver is the antithesis of a grassroots movement.»

«This backroom maneuver is the antithesis of a grassroots movement,» said Rachel Gold, the treasurer in the existing WEP.

Thank You for Smoking (2005) and Casino Jack (2010) are probably the most widely seen, but it's Michael Clayton (2007) that seems to have the most in common tonally with this look at ethics (or lack thereof), conniving strategy, and backroom maneuverings.