The process was conducted in a closed group, behind closed doors.

Not surprisingly, leading bankers lobbied against debt restructuring, both behind closed doors and publicly.

All sides blame others for a lack of solidarity openly or behind closed doors.

Each proposed measure has generated broad, bipartisan agreement among policymakers (at least behind closed doors).

Moreover, Saudi Arabia and some other Arab countries share this view, albeit behind closed doors.

All critical decisions were taken well ahead of the Congress, behind closed doors, with very little input from outsiders.

Children were without hope for a decent future in peace and prosperity and women were shut away behind closed doors.

But now America s debt ceiling has become the subject of intense political posturing and touch and go negotiations behind closed doors.

Behind closed doors, governments wield financial incentives and regulatory powers to mute media criticism and twist editorial content in their favor.

I closed the huge doors behind me and walked softly towards the altar. I was in the opium of the people.

Presumably, Putin would not object to the infliction of such damage behind closed doors, during a debriefing with the Russian security services.

What we are seeing now open campaigning, as opposed to selection behind closed doors seems to be a move in the right direction.

It would be a tragedy if those who still want to control the media win by taking their tactics underground, behind closed doors.

The near panic conditions in financial markets eased as soon as rumors spread that this solution had at least been discussed behind closed doors.

After the train doors closed, I sighed in relief.

I have spent hundreds of hours working behind closed doors with various parties to the conflict Sudan s Government, rebel leaders, neighbouring countries, and African Union partners.

As we have just learned from the European experience, a permanent constitution is unlikely to succeed if drafted behind closed doors, in isolation from the constituency.

Mr. Liu was tried behind closed doors, in violation of his right to a fair and public hearing, guaranteed by international law and by article 111 of CPL.

What makes the situation worse, is that these blocking decisions are taken behind closed doors and without a due process that gives Egyptians the possibility to challenge them in court.

But I am convinced that in order to move forward, we must say openly the things we hold in our hearts, and that too often are said only behind closed doors.

Add to that the way deals are reached behind closed doors and without adequate democratic oversight and it is not surprising that Europeans views of the EU are becoming increasingly negative.

Those who assume that the obsolescent diplomacy of the twentieth century as it is described by today s global network enthusiasts was conducted entirely behind closed doors by elites have got their history wrong.

Unfortunately, the approach of carrying out discussions on this issue behind closed doors was continued, with States being asked to agree on the text of the draft resolution without any possibility for discussion.

Where the fourth preambular paragraph recalls the 2005 World Summit Outcome, we are in fact recalling the result of negotiations that took place behind closed doors and that excluded at least 170 countries.

When the Israeli Davis Cup tennis team came to Malmö in 2009, it was forced to play against its hosts behind closed doors while a crowd of 6,000 far leftists and Muslims rioted outside.

323) the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, for deprivation of counsel and trial behind closed doors (see E CN.4 2003 3 Add.1, para. 338) Nigeria, for lack of legal representation and summary jurisdiction (paras.

The convention of taking sex crime testimony from alleged victims behind closed doors, under conditions of anonymity or confidentiality, only serves institutions like universities or the military that are intent on covering up criminal behavior.

Traditionally, the role of ruling Emir alternated (according to a tacit agreement) between two rival branches of the Al Sabah family the Al Jaber and the Al Salem. The succession was always strictly a family affair, and any disputes remained behind closed doors.

He also invites the Committee to draw inferences from allegedly systematic practices of the Ontario Commission being wholesale rejection of human rights complaints on the basis of inaccurate accounts of the events and facts and spurious arguments and considerations made behind closed doors' .

National and local politicians are being held to increasingly higher standards of environmental protection. A new era of citizen involvement and public scrutiny has begun, creating opportunities for truly inclusive environmental action that promise to achieve more than elites negotiating behind closed doors ever could.

Notes Note 1 As punishment for the crowd trouble at the abandoned Italy v Serbia match, Serbia was ordered to play its next home match against Northern Ireland behind closed doors, with another one match crowd ban deferred for a probationary period of two years.

It is extremely difficult for an honest observer to break through the closed doors that separate Chechnya from the rest of the world.

MADRID Just three days before his return to the Kremlin as Russia s president, Vladimir Putin met behind closed doors at his residence in Novo Ogaryovo, outside Moscow, with US National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, who was there to transmit President Barack Obama s renewed determination to strengthen cooperation with Russia.

Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

Some discussion of this idea is beginning to appear in the press and, it is to be hoped, behind close doors among policymakers and union leaders.

Under the heavy veil and behind closely guarded doors, some Saudi women are being a tad bit naughty when it comes to dressing down for the bedroom.

The numbers are on the doors or next to the doors.

I didn't want to go on hunger strike, but they have closed the doors on me and left me without any solution and this is the only path that I've found.

Lock the doors.

In an attempt to control the situation, police threw tear gas. Hundreds tried to flee the stadium away from the gas, but the doors in the north gallery were closed, trapping people inside.

To pray from the heart that the doors do not close in the faces of the refugees from your country like they were closed in the faces of Mary and Joseph on Christmas Eve.

The doors are open.

As with any addiction, it is very difficult, for neurochemical reasons, for an addict to stop doing things even very self destructive things that enable him to get that next hit of dopamine. Could this be why men who in the past could take time delayed steps to conduct affairs behind closed doors now can t resist the impulse to send a self incriminating text message?

Sami opened the two doors.

Shut all the doors and windows.