Sentences with phrase «worked behind closed doors»

Crossing my fingers something's working behind closed doors

Sen. Mike Lee agreed with Tuttle's perception, in floor remarks last week charging that «all of this has already been pre-arranged, pre-cooked, pre-determined... by a select few members of Congress, working behind closed doors, free from scrutiny.

They're not just going to work behind a closed door, pop it out, and say «thanks for the 94 million, hope you like it!»

Boo Mitford is an artist who comes from a famous line of creative people; the descendant of the famous Mitford sisters is finally releasing her work after 10 years working behind closed doors.

Presently it is apparently true that there are 600 committees working behind closed doors to decide about the new trends.

told Fox News, «Despite the fact that Keystone XL has bipartisan support in Congress and from governors, environmental extremists inside and out of the administration are working behind closed doors to kill it....

Samsung was said to be working behind closed doors on an exciting new design that featured even smaller bezels above and below the phones» displays.

Not exact matches

Behind one closed door at Riot Games» campus, where most of its 2,500 employees work, it sounds like someone is bashing armor with a sword, over and over again.

None of the women have yet to signal they will oppose the bill, which McConnell unveiled Thursday after nearly two months of work that took place primarily behind closed doors.

Behind a closed door, a team of industrial designers sit around a shared work desk, each facing a large screen.

It will be done behind closed doors and we will have our transition plans well worked out.»

We don't know what's going on behind closed doors, and I'm sure the manager and the board are working hard on securing our star players» contracts.

When an architect designs a building, the majority of the work is done behind closed doors.

Turn off the TV and have your teen set up their work in a quiet place that's easily accessible to you — i.e. not behind a closed bedroom door where you can't see what happening.

At present the intelligence and security committee is tasked with the job of holding MI5 and MI6 to account, but the sensitive nature of much of the material involved means much of its work takes place behind closed doors, undermining public confidence in its effectiveness.

Cuomo worked the levers of state government by meeting with key Republican legislators behind closed doors.

A PLA is negotiated behind closed doors between the Owner of the project and the trade union; one party politically motivated to protect the unions because they are heavy campaign contributors — and the other party that is only concerned with keeping their members working so that they can collect hefty union dues from them.

But a year into Article 50 and the UK has remained quiet on its patent policy, save for a few hushed conversations behind closed doors, leaving many patent lawyers - whose livelihoods rest on working across the EU - in jeopardy.

Caputo told the House Intelligence Committee behind closed doors on Friday that he had no contacts with the Russian government before, during or after working for President Trump's campaign in 2015 and 2016.

President Akufo - Addo, in response to these concerns had stated that his administration has been working behind closed - doors in an attempt to bring the political crisis to a closure.

The agreement ensures that the hospital will not close its doors and that some element of care would remain at the Cobble Hill site, a crucial point for the de Blasio administration, which has been working behind the scenes to reach a deal.

Indeed, Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos» conference has worked well with Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has frequently urged them behind closed doors to support his agenda because Republicans in New York tend to be in the mold of Nelson Rockefeller, not Ted Cruz.

After the election you should also know that Governor Andrew Cuomo worked intensively behind closed doors with Senator Dean Skelos, Senator Jeff Klein and the other rebellious Democratic Senators to organize the coup that is keeping the Democrats from taking control of the Senate.

Meanwhile, fresh facts about what transpired behind closed doors at the meeting held Tinubu and the Chief John Odigie - Oyegun - led National Working Committee of the APC have emerged.

They must go and sit behind closed doors, final the money and the technical resources to get the barge working continuously and move on to solve the other related power problems that exist.

«Notably, this progression has been largely invisible to previous work because its primary antecedents occur behind closed doors, out of view of many measurement techniques.»

It took a few years of having my health completely deteriorate before I was able to marry my work in the kitchen with the pain I was experiencing behind closed doors.

Betty Crocker must have started working in your building because you could smell the sweet treats before the door to the workroom closed behind you!

Behind closed doors, it appears the park's scientists are working on a genetically mutated hybrid dinosaur.

While only the participants may ever truly know what was said and done behind some very private closed doors, director Stephen Frears (Mrs. Henderson Presents, High Fidelity), working from the script by historical screenwriter Peter Morgan (The Last King of Scotland, Henry VIII), offers a very compelling and believable hypothesis of just what might have actually happened.

In Montomery County, Md., a suburban school district outside of Washington, D.C. with over 150,000 students and an annual budget of $ 2.4 billion, most people probably couldn't answer these questions because much of the work of the school board seems to take place behind closed doors.

«You can't do that if teachers are working in isolation behind closed doors.»

Our guest believes that the days of teachers working in isolation behind closed classroom doors should be a thing of the past.

Twenty years ago, most teachers worked alone behind closed classroom doors.

Rep. Bryan worked on his legislation with various stakeholders behind closed doors, producing 40 + versions of the proposal before it would have made it to a public hearing this week.

Schools typically are organized into long, often windowless corridors, lined with 900 - square - foot classrooms — a floor plan that consigns teachers and students to working in relative isolation behind closed doors.

The proposal to create an «achievement school district» that wrests control of low - performing schools away from local school boards and into the hands of charter operators is being developed behind closed doors as the legislative session marches on, with numerous lawmakers and advocates working in tandem on successive drafts of the legislation.

Undoubtedly, the district prefers doing business behind closed doors and letting its generously compensated administrators do the dirty work.

The search for a new Los Angeles schools superintendent is proceeding behind closed doors, but the underlying power politics extend well beyond the room where seven elected Board of Education members are at work.

Meeks, who was appointed to the education post by Gov. Bruce Rauner, said his office has been working «behind closed doors» with CPS and chief Barbara Byrd - Bennett but declined to elaborate on what he described as private conversations.

Sometimes this entails devising «workarounds» when traditional methods don't work, but it doesn't mean each teacher doing their own thing behind closed doors.

This month EvLeaks, often reliable with Nokia rumours, provides the codename «Illusionist» for the 8 - inch Lumia tablet behind the closed doors of Nokia as the company works to bring it to market.

The new iPad Pro and third - generation iPad mini haven't been ditched completely, and instead, Apple is working on both behind closed doors to bring to market sometime in the future, according to the analyst.

Having worked with rescues in the past, you get to know the heart - wrenching truth behind the closed doors of «shelters.»

The center will close, also allowing staff to take lunch at this time or work quietly in offices behind closed doors.

Proof that Sony and Nintendo are secretly working together behind closed doors since the infamous «split» that led to the creation of the original Playstation in the first place.

Once again, we'll be getting to grips with some of the biggest upcoming titles of the next twelve months, interviewing some of the developers working hard behind closed doors, bombarding you with the latest news from the show and giving you our opinions on some of the hottest properties in the industry.

What I liked so much about it, was how Maria just told the real stuff that goes on behind closed doors especially working with her husband that is an artist.

It's the whole body of work, the history and persona of Richard Prince, rolled into and behind the closed doors of that artwork.

Curated by Dr Jo Melvin, the director of Flanagan's estate, the show focuses on these seminal early works from the 50s, 60s and 70s that came to establish Flanagan's solid reputation — many of the pieces in the show have remained behind closed doors for 30 years.