Sentences with phrase «made behind closed doors»

While not as slick looking as past concepts from the company, it shows progress is being made behind the closed doors of Google.

Now, I'm sure statements like that are made behind closed doors in Hollywood all the time, but they're smart enough not to say them publicly.

A landmark judicial review that was set to shine a light on decisions made behind closed doors by regional schools commissioners has been settled out of court.

More and more major decisions were made behind closed doors, and more and more teachers felt micromanaged rather than supported.

«The proposed changes in the academic indicator accountability measure are significant; yet, they are being brought to the board at the last minute and were made behind closed doors, without any public input,» the letter states.

Furthermore, it strike me as more likely that the good guys will stay in charge at the national level, where all of this stuff will operate under the bright lights of the national media, than in the states, where decisions get made behind closed doors.

If you are a public - sector employee, you will suffer no tax increase at all — no matter how costly your health insurance — if the deal made behind closed doors between Democratic leaders in Congress, the White House, and powerful union officials goes through.

Cuomo promised to have a more open administration, but all key decisions have been made behind closed doors, often with only the consultation of the two majority party legislative leaders, a practice known as three men in a room.

Several leading state legislators have painted the all - volunteer councils as buddy networks where too many decisions are made behind closed doors and members are naturally disposed to approve each others» projects.

She says she says she's not surprised that New Yorkers don't like decisions made behind closed doors.

A clear list of donors and meetings combined with a strong and independent media will strengthen our democracy far more than any miserable little taxpayer funded compromise made behind closed doors will.

The key decisions are made behind closed doors at private meetings between Governor Cuomo and majority party legislative leaders.

«The Board of Education should not defer to the Commissioner who is far removed from our community and whose decision is essentially made behind closed doors.

Key policies on tackling crime and immigration across the EU are being made behind closed doors with little opportunity for scrutiny, peers warn today.

I loved it so much that I asked if I could get the recipe, to which our waitress laughed and told me that the chef was so cagey about its composition that he made it behind closed doors.

A minority government would breathe new life into Alberta's Legislative Assembly, which has largely become a rubber - stamp for decisions made behind closed doors by PC cabinet ministers and MLAs.

In China, however, decisions are usually made behind closed doors with much less public input compared to Western democracies.

The final part of the speech is where he destroys the idea that the Fed is some shadowy institution whose decisions are made behind closed doors.

Even if you think it's all well - intentioned, consider this:»... Why do well intentioned people trying in all honesty and effort to accomplish organizational missions make terrible decisions... Groupthink, where bad decision making behind closed doors by «the few» adversely affect the many, is a scary part of group behavior.

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He assumes these (male) managers make decisions behind closed doors so that the female employee «won't make as much of a fuss about it.»

But enough noise leaked out from behind the closed doors to make clear what was happening, and it was this: the «long, slow death» that hardline Republicans promised for immigration reform has begun.

Law enforcement often follows the money flows, so these regulations are used to make sure that terrorists, drug dealers, and other types of criminals are not able to fund their activities behind closed doors.

I believe the times when innovation was made happen behind closed doors are over.

Or, as my Dem family occupying most of the general Baltimore area philosophizes (behind closed doors of course), just hand out enough to keep»em happy and keep»em from rioting, and we will get on with our life and making money.

The less politic version of the argument was made by a Marco Rubio aide from behind closed doors.

They change when many «us» get together and push their own set of codes, but even then, behind closed doors we all make our own that we live by.

They have done everything in their power to make men and women feel guilty about having sex with each other, while the leadership was having homosexual relations behind closed doors.

Second, I fear that decisions concerning congenital mutations that condemn fetuses to destruction are made arbitrarily behind closed doors in a highly undemocratic manner.

«When Nora closes behind her the door of her doll's house, she opens wide the gate of life for women, and proclaims the revolutionary message that only perfect freedom and communion make a true bond between man and woman, meeting in the open, without lies, without shame, free from the bondage of duty»

I kissed my kids on their way out the door, closing it tight behind them, their small bodies wrapped in extra layers making their way down the leaf - lined street.

I don't care too much what he says publicly, what I hope he is saying behind closed doors to Gazidis et all is «I made a big mistake this summer and we need to pay over the odds for another central defender now.»

or do I duck downstairs to the «meditation / quiet room» just outside the lunch room and make the call behind closed door?

But make no mistake: Behind closed doors, league personnel love to laugh at their opponents» shortcomings.

I'm one off the biggest W.O.B»S out there but unless the club has someone off quality lined up behind closed doors it's to late to make a change now.

it would be nice to know what relay happens behind close doors of Arsenal is it AW???? or Stan???? that makes all the decision on player expenditure???

I will agree that he could retire gracefully, maybe even go out with a bang and make his own book talking about all the stuff that happened behind closed doors so us fans can know his perspective without a boss telling him what to say.

So I hope that behind closed doors, Wenger will be preparing his team for a tough test and making sure that we know what to expect and are ready to stand our ground, as long as we do not step over the line.

how do the papers «know» how much our transfer fund for jan is do they have a reporter hiding the bin of gazidis office recording this info, wenger will be backed with whatever he needs, i totally believe them when the board and ceo state PUBLICLY (not made up behind close doors like the rags do) that they will back wenger with the funds needed (they are very good at balacing the books so they should have enough for him maybe sell one or two deadwoods to make extra # 15million somewhere) they will.

I am strongly of the mind that we do not see every dealing Wenger makes and that most, if not all, of the conversations he has about signing players go on behind very closed doors.

Chelsea are seeking to arrange a behind - closed - doors friendly this week to grant Ross Barkley game time after discovering only on Sunday that the new signing would not be able to make his debut tonight at home to Norwich.

Red Star Belgrade have won their appeal against UEFA's decision to make them play their next Europa League game behind closed doors as punishment for their fans

Its the same old bollocks at our beloved arsenal, we have no idea what's going on behind closed doors, who even knows if Wenger has any money to spend, he is just a puppet at the club, the money grabbing bastards at the top create the problems and leave Wenger to deal with them making us blame him when its really the wankers at the top just getting fatter off our hard earned money we invest in the team watching them!!!

The manager made it clear last weekend Andy in particular needed games and that he would try to set up a behind - closed - doors match but it has proved impossible.

It's okay, maybe, to whisper it behind closed doors to a professional but heaven forbid you discuss it in public because it will make other people uncomfortable.

Still, the thought of letting everyone in my office know that I'm going behind a closed door every few hours to (essentially) disrobe and pump breast milk makes me a little uncomfortable.

At the very least the proposed changes in Greater Manchester — which obviously go a lot wider than the system of government — have all the hall marks of a policy being made on - the - hoof, behind closed doors, by small groups of like - minded people — just the sort of ingredients identified by King and Crewe which lead to monumental blunders.

Mel Miller, 78, was once one of Albany's most powerful elected officials — a member of the storied «three men in a room» who made all the state's big decisions behind closed doors.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who had indicated support for the Senate's effort to expand charter schools, has not made a public appearance in Albany this week, remaining behind closed doors negotiating with lawmakers.

People familiar with the situation say Schaffer had promised Gargiulo the job behind closed doors, and Gargiulo «wasn't aware of the fact» that he wasn't supposed to make it public yet.

On Monday, the one announced GOP candidate, Assembly Republican leader Brian Kolb (R - Canandaigua), made presentations behind closed doors with GOP officials along with a potential candidate, Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse).