There is no public oversight of the council and its meetings are held behind closed doors. |
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Neither do they welcome publicity for their initiation ceremonies, conducted behind closed doors. |
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The club closed two weeks ago and negotiations had been taking place behind closed doors as to its future. |
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Lana was surprised that he didn't have a girlfriend since he was attractive and was a sweetheart behind closed doors. |
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She turns on her own staff to make a selfish, self-serving deal behind closed doors that later gets revealed. |
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Character and backbone behind closed doors is why, among players, he is still respected. |
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And while it would be nice to believe him it's hard to see how the rules, such as they are, won't be broken behind closed doors. |
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After all, this is a area where subjective judgements are often made behind closed doors. |
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I don't know what kind of deals were struck and compromises reached behind closed doors that led to the legislation that passed. |
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It will hear oral evidence from witnesses in sessions which contentiously are being held behind closed doors beginning in York next month. |
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Well, on a personal level, how does he behave behind closed doors as a mediator, as a peacemaker of sorts? |
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Things happen behind closed doors which he doesn't see and so he doesn't fully understand. |
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First, behind closed doors, the council enters into partnership agreements and draws up plans. |
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He also gave expert evidence in many child protection cases which are held behind closed doors with no public scrutiny. |
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In football, the spoils go to the team that wins on the field, not the team that uses lobbyists and extortion behind closed doors. |
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It is already in the House bill funding those departments, and Democrats will not let it be stripped out behind closed doors in conference. |
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Most Irish figure dancing or step dancing is carried on behind closed doors. |
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This was emphatically reinforced when we saw a demo behind closed doors and spoke with some of the developers in May. |
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This bill leaves those decisions to an unelected and unaccountable committee that meets behind closed doors. |
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A somnolent atmosphere hangs over the entirety of these proceedings, which mainly unfold firmly behind closed doors. |
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The process by which products are selected needs to be open and transparent, not carried out behind closed doors. |
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Our view is that those who run the media should run it in public, and not behind closed doors. |
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Domestic violence, once a dark, heinous secret concealed behind closed doors, is now a repugnant truth brought to light. |
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His only appearance in the senior side came in pre-season in a friendly behind closed doors at Middlesbrough. |
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However, authorities refuse to comment on what is really happening behind closed doors. |
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I certainly don't want to add my voice to a bitter argument that has raged for months behind closed doors. |
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All the issues of divorce must be dealt with behind closed doors, if one wants to avoid scandal. |
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As well, it is to be hoped that the panel will reconsider its decision to conduct its budget reviews behind closed doors. |
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If you find it necessary to criticize something in particular, be sure to do so in private, behind closed doors. |
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Few formal channels of participation exist, and major decisions are made behind closed doors. |
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Political processes often happen in private, with decisions being made behind closed doors. |
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And we felt the title suited the way we produced the new album, all four of us tucked away behind closed doors. |
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Lennox Lewis will burn the midnight oil in his final ring workout, training strictly behind closed doors before Sunday's world heavyweight title fight in Johannesburg, South Africa. |
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They will meet privately behind closed doors and appoint the president whom we shall send to the US and Latin America. |
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A vague air of secrecy pervades the place, with all the action taking place behind closed doors. |
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Russia is no longer an autarchic state, conducting its affairs behind closed doors and determining which Russians have a right to live or die. |
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It appears that the two have talked behind closed doors and struck a deal. |
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Both were brought to court where the hearing was held behind closed doors, in the absence of their lawyers. |
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Its relative accessibility was cited as a positive counter-example by a critic in 1747 when he criticized the Crown for keeping its art treasures behind closed doors. |
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The most vulnerable members of our society fall victim to the repulsive and detestable warlords and gang masters who conceal their depraved activity behind closed doors. |
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The Bushes and anyone they allow into the club like to govern and conduct their wars behind closed doors. |
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Josephine demands outward perfection and victimizes her children behind closed doors. |
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Trials are held behind closed doors, and defendants are routinely denied access to defense counsel of their choice. |
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The man who appears resolute and forceful in public is, behind closed doors, cowering in fear. |
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From now on, any hint that decisions are being taken behind closed doors is likely to be destabilising and demotivating. |
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The days of negotiations on technical matters behind closed doors are gone forever. |
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This kind of attitude, he said, is also a consequence of the centralization of power, where decisions are taken behind closed doors and rubber-stamped by parliament. |
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After they were led into the building, the door was barred by armed police who said proceedings before a judge were taking place behind closed doors. |
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The impression that many of us have is that the discussions are taking place behind closed doors. |
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They do not work alongside other coworkers, but in isolation behind closed doors. |
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A typical encounter then took place, involving a discussion behind closed doors and then the parents being contacted. |
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Citizens in the North need to know how their governments are behaving behind closed doors. |
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Instead of announcing the message of the Risen Christ, the disciples had been fearfully hiding in a locked house behind closed doors. |
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It is instead a result of the decisions taken behind closed doors in the bedrooms of the nation by our parents and grandparents. |
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Prisoners of their own protection, rich people live downtown behind closed doors where there traditions and cultural identities have disappeared. |
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In light of these power imbalances, meting out justice behind closed doors and away from public scrutiny threatens women's rights. |
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In cases involving victims or witnesses under the age of 14, the court could also decide to hold hearings behind closed doors. |
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The country is ruled from behind closed doors, a building without an address or a telephone number. |
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When Travers barrels into that office, we should have gotten a glimpse of what Walt Disney was really like behind closed doors. |
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On more than one occasion, literal fights broke out behind closed doors, and the antagonism often fell along racial lines. |
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But behind closed doors, corporate influence peddlers are more powerful than ever. |
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This tension between committees has often played out inside the Republican conference, behind closed doors. |
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We will probably never know what else Kerry told the Trilateral Commission behind closed doors. |
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The Rovers' barmaid is being emotionally abused in scenes that are repeated behind closed doors in homes in Greater Manchester and across the country. |
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That report has not been put in the public domain and councillors discussed its implications behind closed doors before reconvening to reject the plan once again. |
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In his keynote address to the Labour Party conference in Killarney, Rabbitte lacerated the government for breaking its election promises and operating behind closed doors. |
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Should the Green Paper become law, the worst mistakes and ugliest abuses will be kept firmly behind closed doors. |
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The first handshake took place behind closed doors at Belfast's Lyric Theatre and was not recorded. |
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But on the Nation, these are the kinds of stories only whispered behind closed doors. |
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The first match at the stadium was a game played behind closed doors between Multiplex and Wembley Stadium staff. |
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It is as if the Convention had never been held, and the Council were back in the old Nice routine with all the hullabaloo and horse trading going on behind closed doors. |
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Sirens do not always wake up sound sleepers: Sirens and bells installed outside or far from bedrooms are not likely to awaken people who are sound asleep behind closed doors inside the protected area or in adjacent buildings. |
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In contrast to the burning desire and hopeless self-gratification on display are two naïve characters who mourn the absence of spiritual connection in the private universe behind closed doors. |
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I do not think it would be in our best interest in the international community to be laughed at behind closed doors for drawing a line in the sand and running the other way or sitting on the fence. |
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That lead to a confrontation between her and Cruz behind closed doors. |
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Small informal groups such as the G6 and the High Level Contact Group meeting behind closed doors on matters of anti-terrorism do not befit a modern democracy like the European Union. |
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Saatchi, with all his cash could have chosen to swallow the alleged fraud and kept the lid on what went on behind closed doors. |
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After violence at the Aper Aku Stadium, Lobi were ordered to play a handful of games behind closed doors. |
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A confidential meeting behind closed doors is to be held to discuss Japanese knotweed, which plagues headgerows, verges and riverbanks. |
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It's Kremlinology all over again, speculating about what's gone on behind closed doors. |
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My goodness, it is starting off behind closed doors already. |
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I am therefore pleased to hear that Minister Lindh does not intend to propose a repeat performance of cliques of advisers and governments meeting behind closed doors at Gothenburg. |
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We know there are broken homes and abusive relationships behind closed doors. |
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So that part should be repealed, because there are other provisions that deal with public indecency, indecency that is really in the public view, that is not behind closed doors. |
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I really think we would do a disservice to this issue if we were to continue with task force reports that are behind closed doors and at a bureaucratic level. |
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The Committee recommends that all States parties introduce the rule that court and other hearings of a child in conflict with the law be conducted behind closed doors. |
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The Finance Department is your typical group of unsung heroes who work quietly behind closed doors and ensures that we keep our financial accounting accurate and up to date. |
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People mainly worry about survival and hardships behind closed doors. |
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What you do with your girlfriend behind closed doors is none of my business. |
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Mr. Speaker, the problem is whether the Prime Minister actually believes what he is doing, because behind closed doors he is singing a different tune. |
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Frustrated toddlers play behind closed doors. |
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There is no need for a detailed list, but it is obvious that they can ask him to naysay things behind closed doors. |
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The two top diplomats met behind closed doors at Hotel Cobourg in Vienna and even without the presence of their negotiating teams. |
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Democrats divided up the bounty behind closed doors. |
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The Heads of State and Government are threatening to replace thirty years of budgetary right by the omnipotence of the Finance Ministers behind closed doors, and this shows little evidence of democracy or transparency. |
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A member willing to take an unpopular position behind closed doors may be dissuaded by the fear that his or her position may shortly be made public. |
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How can a Commission president praise a Treaty in which all the executive functions are hand-picked behind closed doors instead of being the result of the voters' choice? |
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The second is that the Conservatives and Liberals set up a phoney committee to discuss these issues behind closed doors and it is wonderful to finally have a chance to hear the positions of all the parties in the House. |
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These are the people who are trained to deal with people in crisis, a kidnapping or, in this case, a man barricaded behind closed doors with a weapon. |
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Come clean, Peter, over the hidden agendas that have most probably been agreed behind closed doors over the past few years. |
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The spotlight has moved away from the mishandling of Jean-Claude Juncker's nomination as European commission president, but the cack-handedness continues behind closed doors. |
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Libya's opening home match in the World Cup qualifiers against Cameroon will be played at a neutral venue and behind closed doors, FIFA said on Friday. |
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A bipartisan group of nine U.S. Senators, after meeting for nine months behind closed doors, is nearing an agreement on the broad strokes of a health-care-reform bill. |
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The suspects' trial was held behind closed doors at a military internment centre and even its existence was not known until the verdicts were handed down in April. |
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