Sentences with phrase «filled backroom deals»

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We have to set out our stall on what we believe in, why we think we've got the best policies for the country and I honestly think the minute you start looking like you're either conceding defeat or you're interested in backroom deals in smoke - filled room over things you've got no control over, you lose the essence of what the election is about.»

In addition, the script adds enough plots to fill a whole rack at the airport Barnes & Noble: looming epidemics, African civil wars, sinister businessmen cutting backroom deals, even a nebulous threat that may destroy all life on Earth if Pitt doesn't save the day.

It's a fictional story of hostage negotiation, but Tony Gilroy's screenplay is filled with so many backroom deals, backchannel talks, and instances of parties giving and receiving the runaround that the story feels like it could have happened.