Sentences with phrase «by backroom»

Tkaczyk's district is considered «Democratic - safe» by the backroom operatives who pull the strings in Albany, despite the barest of majorities in 2012.
The candidate has become appalled by the backroom politics of the Republican party and believes his best chance of connecting with voters on the issues is to run as an Independent candidate in November.
Last week, Dietl said had become appalled by the backroom politics of the city's GOP county committees.
Although it's not quite as richly accomplished a piece as This House, Graham's now five - year - old work delivers laughter and intrigue in equal measure, capturing the agony and ecstasy experienced by the backroom boys of UK politics.
May sought to present a tone of continuity and calm, arguing there should be «no coronation brought about by backroom deals».
Article headline in the Metro should read: «Arsenal looking to keep existing players injury - free, as evidenced by their backroom staff recruits»

Not exact matches

For one, that guy Mulcair could have a problem on his hands with resolutions that want to take the Party in different directions, or grassroots revolts he can't control, or, whatever else can't be controlled within a Party that is notorious for being run by the folks on the floor, and not a bunch of old boys in a backroom.
They alleged that the words «or more unprofitable» had been added in a backroom deal by lobbyists for Enron Corporation and exceeded the mandate of the Alberta Energy Utilities Board.
Alongside this belching motorcade of backroom dealing and cronyism rides the nuclear industry, which stands to benefit from the NOPR more or less by accident.
Freedoms as in the cradles of socialisms» Republic of the U.S.A. are but liberalizing issues to be given and taken away by the controlling government at a moments notice pending backroom antics.
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Banners were held up within the Emirates Stadium this weekend calling for a change in management or the backroom, although that was swiftly followed by chants of «there's only one Arsene Wenger», which counteracted the supposed protest.
All of this has been sorted out by the new backroom staff with Gazidis (who also deserves a break) orchestrating the new regime.
Huge and widely publicised fan anger; open discussion among respected national journalists on who will be his successor (They take his sacking for granted); a board meeting this Monday to which he was summoned; all the backroom changes made by Gazidis, over Wengers head.
2 new backroom staff by reports will be having an input on transfers seems like a change.
Aston Villa have reportedly seen an approach to appoint Phil Neville as part of their backroom staff rejected by the former Manchester United man.
Overmars will be joined by fellow former Gunner Per Mertesacker, who is retiring from playing at the end of the season in order to take on a role within the academy, while Steve Bould and Jens Lehmann are also a part of the backroom set - up also.
I'd like to see a bit more ruthlessness by Wenger and his backroom staff regarding the players that are continually injury prone.
Unless he wants to show the backroom team how good he can be all by himself, I wouldn't expect anyone arriving.
I will not argue that the team has some players in it which wouldn't have been bought into the team in Wengers early years, this is not Wengers fault, Wenger is a consistent variable here... It is Wengers support from the backroom staff and those are hired and fired by the board which is being lead by the majority share holder Silent Stan.
In the end, though, whilst the backroom staff contribute to the success of the club; ultimately, titles are won by the players; and herein do we most need strengthening.
The new backroom staff is all good movements by the club behind the scenes, along with the New Record Club Deal with Fly Emirates, just shows that off the field we are run the right way — but have the wrong manager doing the business on the field.
Everyone knows about the huge amount of signings to the backroom staff done by Arsenal in the last 2 years and that unlike our player signings, these were signing of the best people around.
Are you really naive enough to believe that Wenger would bring anyone into this current locker room that is going to be given a strong voice... have you not been watching, listening or reading about our club for years... Lehman is a blind Wenger follower, which is the only reason he was even considered... just for a second think of all the strong personalities that have played for this club that have never been seriously considered even though they have expressed legitimate interest in participating in the coaching process... even worse, think of all the former greats who aren't even allowed on the same pitch as Wenger because they have offered their advice and / or criticism to the infallible one... I dare you to find a manager that has distanced himself from his former players as much as this man... it's the very reason why only one player I can think of has ever returned to play for Wenger and that was Flamini, which was hilarious considering we were desperately looking for a top quality defensive midfielder but Wenger could somehow find no one better than Flamini in the whole wide world... let's face it this club was simply trying to appease it's disgruntled fans by declaring that Wenger would no longer be given Ca rte Blanche when it came to the backroom staff so they probably asked him to give them a list of those who he would allow in the locker room... on that list he wrote Lehman, Pires and Bergkamp, likely because the first two are the only former players who haven't publicly questioned his horrible decision - making and the last one because he won't get in an airplane
But it's at the back that questions are yet again being unanswered by Wenger and the backroom staff.
Backroom staff are only mentioned, especially by fans, when failure happens.
Pellegrino's backroom staff is completed by Dave Watson, the club's Head of Goalkeeping, and Head of Sports Science / First Team Strength & Conditioning Coach Alek Gross.
And the defender claims his own form is being lent a further boost by the training ground counsel of Allardyce and his experienced backroom staff, among them first - team coach Craig Shakespeare, who previously worked with Keane when the ex-Manchester United player spent a large slice of the 2012/13 campaign on loan with Leicester City.
But the benefits of working intensely with boss Allarydce and his experienced backroom staff during the Toffees» February training camp in Dubai were borne out by Tosun's robust display against the Clarets.
This much was made known to Owngoalnigeria.com by one of the backroom staff of the coach, who revealed that the preferred playing style of Rohr needs a physically imposing player be it 4 -3-3 or 4 -2-3-1.
U.S. Senate Republicans finally released their secretive bill to repeal Obamacare after weeks of backroom negotiations — and it was immediately slammed as «heartless» by Democrats and too soft by hardline conservatives.
Farage insisted that Hamilton was just a «backroom boy», but this was disputed by Hamilton himself who told the BBC's Newsnight that he saw himself as «front - of - house».
And when GOP voters rejected their party's nominee in favor of an outsider, they took a striking stand against cross endorsements, races rigged by party bosses, and backroom deals for Election Day patronage spoils.
Evidence of the backroom deal began to emerge on Fri., Aug. 24, when Assemblyman Vito Lopez, of Brooklyn, was implicated in the sexual harassment of two female employees following an internal investigation by the Assembly's ethics committee.
Asked whether she was surprised by the decision to go with a placeholder, she added, «I'm not a backroom deal person, I'm not engaged in the, sort of punditry and background — New York politics has had a lot of — many years — a lot of decisions being made behind the scenes.»
The first highlights — filled with backroom political gossiping — were played during testimony by state Sen. Tony Avella (D - Whitestone), who described Skelos» power and explained how his own legislative behavior on issues such as rent control and fracking might have been different if he knew about the behind - the - scenes interests of Skelos.
Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins is (not surprisingly) displeased by the fact that she and her fellow minority leader, Assembly Republican Leader Brian Kolb, are being left out of the backroom budget talks that again include IDC Leader Jeff Klein, even though he no longer has a power - sharing deal with the Senate Republicans.
He and Silver once epitomized Albany's backroom political culture by hammering out deals on the state budget and legislation in closed - door negotiating sessions with Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
There is plenty of backroom discussion going on inside the Capitol about whether Cuomo might ultimately have to try to take control of the Legislature by starting a coup to depose Silver.
Beset by corruption, backroom deals and voter scorn, New York received a score of 61, a D -, placing it in 31st place nationwide in the State Integrity Investigation, a data - driven assessment of state government accountability and transparency conducted by the Center for Public Integrity and Global Integrity.
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.
The all night session in mid March was widely condemned by newspaper editorials from around the state as a reversion to backroom politics.
Deals will be struck in backrooms at a time when the public - disgusted by the corruption and shabby secrecy of the last Parliament - needs openness more than ever, if faith in our politics is to be rebuilt.
Waiting until the last days and hours of the session to cast votes on critical items is a longstanding tradition in Albany, but this year the work is complicated by a recent rash of corruption arrests that have highlighted Albany's backroom culture.
This sort of old guard cronyist, backroom, undemocratic, manipulation will of course easily outmanoeuvre a politically uneducated and naïve membership — BUT, come a future Labour government inevitably under severe economic sabotage by the global markets and their creatures in the UK press and PLP, and, disastrously, a politically unsophisticated, ideologically unprepared and unmobilised mass membership will not be available to provide the backing «on the streets, in the workplaces, and in the communities» that that Labour government will desperately need to survive.
«Cuomo's time in office has been defined by a string of indictments for corruption, his failure to fix the New York City subway, and his support for a backroom deal which handed Republicans control of the state Senate, resulting in the failure of numerous pieces of progressive legislation.»
The debate in New York has generated intense backroom bidding by the candidates» friends, surrogates and county party leaders, who all want a seat.
But backroom dealing by county bosses had already determined...
Until now the backroom deliberations within the Conservative party over the Falklands have remained largely private but the notes are among those released by the Margaret Thatcher Archive Trust as it opens its files from a year which came to define Lady Thatcher's career.
«Backroom manipulation» by Albany lawmakers will cost charter schools more than a billion dollars in funding over the coming years, according to some critics.
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