How To Use Closed-door In A Sentence
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In yesterday's closed-door meeting of the defense committee, lawmakers with the committee reached agreement after several hours' discussion on unfreezing the two budgets.
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‘It's not what you'd want as a player,’ said Barry Ferguson, meaning the closed-doors match rather than the pyrotechnics.
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A champion of privatization, he's been holding closed-door meetings with moderate Democrats in the hopes of forging a compromise.
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It all started after Democratic leaders triggered a closed-door session.
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In a closed-door meeting, the folksy cleric parries lawmakers' queries by smearing the ministers with corruption charges.
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Leaders gather in closed-door cabals and carry on regardless of what their citizens think.
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He devoted most of his remarks in the closed-door session to offering his version of events in the ethics case against him.
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After a closed-door debate, the Security Council voted to approve his panel.
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Not much concrete came out of the closed-door conclave, except a flurry of articles and promises by both sides to continue talking.
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He used it as a remote eavesdropping device, tucked beneath beds and hidden in laundry hampers, capturing closed-door confessions and seizing suburban secrets.
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The photos are thought to be the same ones which left members of Congress ashen-faced when showed in a closed-door session last summer.
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Former President Bush gave a closed-door speech to some of his old administration staffers last night -- and offered what one attendee told Fox News was a more frank and "freewheeling" version of the interviews he's been doing to promote 'Decision Points'.
Bush jokes about 'bring 'em on'
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Well, the second week of defense testimony began much like last week did, in closed-door evidentiary hearings.
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It was a closed-door deal - done without competing bids and without congressional hearings or a vote.
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The two-hour, closed-door session did not appear to produce much.
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The morning session will be open to the public but the afternoon session will be a closed-door meeting as some of the discussion may concern national security.
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Closed-door discussions about which technologies in the clean tech landscape get how much from our government coffers is the modus operandi for the fits-and-starts approach we seem to have in building any sort of energy and economic platform that de-toxes us off our addiction to extracted energy.
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There was a closed-door session for about an hour, and then one of the jurors was late for court.
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Similarly, one does not throw the press, the public and even the elected representatives of the opposition party out of the room in which government control of one-sixth of the nation's economy is being horse-traded, logrolled, bribed and jawboned into shape in violation of the people's will, all the while praising the closed-door process as "the most transparent in history.
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After the informal, but closed-door, meetings, the leaders will issue two joint statements, the official said.
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State Senate Republicans today proposed a cooling-off period in the debate over casino gambling, aiming to shed light on a process that has so far been marked by closed-door negotiations.
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Canadian science-based risk regulation has ample room to move away from closed-door bargaining and its lack of public accountability, without falling into the pitfalls of American pluralist legalism.
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Both the parliament and the government have openly demanded a secret, closed-door trial to ban a political party.
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And you can imagine that he will be facing some incredibly intense questions at that closed-door hearing next week.
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He also pointed out that the government has noted the stories in some media that he says misreported the facts about closed-door talks between two the governments' officials.
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Never mind, May thought, he's a closed-door politician, and I'm a woman of the people.
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There was a closed-door session for about an hour, and then one of the jurors was late for court.
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The climactic vote came after more than a week of stop-and-start negotiations, rumors, closed-door meetings and frustration on the part of advocates.
N.Y. legalizes gay marriage
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Marathon closed-door meetings of key activists from around the world hammered out detailed plans for action over the coming months.
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At a closed-door session later, however, he said the pair were corrupt.
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The party's caucus had held the closed-door meeting to discuss ways to counter the opposition lawmakers' plans.
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An official announcement by the dean and chapter, the ancient minster's governing body, is expected later in the week after a behind-closed-doors meeting today.
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Jurors provide the climax to most trials when they announce the verdict, but that result rarely sheds light on whatever drama might have been involved in the closed-door deliberations.
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The four leaders huddled with their top aides for a closed-door session at an air-base on Terceira Island on Sunday, March 16.
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Are these closed-door procedures justified by legitimate security needs?
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They excluded all but two of the Democrats from closed-door negotiating sessions on the final form of the legislation.
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They whined and complained, prompting a closed-door meeting with Paxson to try and calm things down.
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The disagreement prompted lawmakers deliberating the controversial bill to bring the issue to a closed-door meeting on Thursday for lobbying.
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Leaders gather in closed-door cabals and carry on regardless of what their citizens think.
