In an interesting article by Davidoff and Zaring 2009, it is argued that the "bail-out" can be characterized as "deal-making through contracts" as the Treasury and Fed stretched the boundaries of law with behind-closed-doors hard-headed negotiations. ❋ L. Randall Wray (2012)
TAMPA - Former governor and Florida's Favorite Son, Jeb Bush, looking a bit bleary after 72 hours of behind-closed-doors political warfare, stepped up to the podium to welcome the exhausted applause of a weary and wary convention crowd. ❋ Don Ringe (2012)
Despite the behind-closed-doors wrangling, diplomats say the relationship between the two security bodies has grown stronger in the three years since they began annual joint meetings. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Additionally, little is known and less is said of sexual assaults of men, and in our stiff upper lip and behind-closed-doors society, rape or domestic abuse between married couples remains a subject that is often only discovered when it's too late. ❋ Jo Rourke (2012)
The website literally pays for the roof over my head, but if I had to have one more offline conversation with a friend about the difference between Facebook-appropriate comments and behind-closed-doors banter, I'd snap. ❋ Bunmi Laditan (2011)
My old friend Bob Kingston has all the gory details of the current inspection regime here, and he's not too impressed with a behind-closed-doors investigation by a gagged researcher without the power to subpoena witnesses or to compel testimony. ❋ Unknown (2009)
A behind-closed-doors dispute involving the company that owns the famed Apthorp apartment building and the developer's fired chief executive has spilled over into the public arena. ❋ Craig Karmin (2011)
"Parents should not feel pressured by behind-closed-doors communications the night before our all-community meeting, in a setting which excludes some of their fellow committee members and the rest of the community," she wrote. ❋ Alan Gottlieb (2010)
Istilldidn't want to know how he got that name — really, really, reallydidn't want to know — particularly if these people were apt to be so obvious and obnoxious and crass about their behind-closed-doors activities — but the nickname, like a catchy melody or the “SPROING!” tension-and-release of a corny joke you know shouldn't laugh at, remained stuck in my head. ❋ Christopher Snyder (2010)
Ms. Ferdinando summarized the film as "the 'Inconvenient Truth' of mindless eating," with the story taking a "behind-closed-doors, fly-on-the-wall" approach that highlights unhealthy relationships people have with food. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I realize that I open myself to ridicule by saying that everything I had suspected about the man was reinforced in a little over a minute and in the subsequent behind-closed-doors speech to the Republican congressional leadership. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Instead, Emanuel met behind-closed-doors with a senator out of touch with her own constituents and tried to cut a deal for a trigger nobody wants. — ❋ Unknown (2009)
They can criticize you about talking about [little girl's] but they get so drunk as what they do BEHIND CLOSED DOORS is probably the very thing they condemn where it is with many other people also the case.
As NO ONE knows [what goes on] BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.
Don't be such an ASS DAN as most of the time nobody can see you being an ASS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.
That BEHIND you are after is BEHIND CLOSED DOORS so [have at it] as they excuse themselves because of their state. ❋ DEFINITIVE PEDOPHILE (2021)
[Hey you] wanna [read a book]?
sure what [book]
Behind closed doors
….wtf ❋ Omgwhatiswhy (2023)
