Sentence examples for backroom maneuvering from inspiring English sources

What emerges from the effort is a sort of political reality TV, born from backroom maneuvering reminiscent of "The War Room," D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus's 1993 documentary about Bill Clinton's 1992 Presidential campaign.

"It was LBJ-style horse trade politics," Mason said of Barnes' backroom maneuvering.

It's because they are talented, wheelers and dealers, willing to get their hands dirty with big time art dealers or political favors and backroom maneuvering.

An unprecedented combination of military force, street protests, procedural ploys, and backroom maneuvering, it seemed, had finally pushed Mugabe out.

The announcement ended a month of scurrilous accusations -- mostly from other conference members -- backroom maneuvers and intense negotiations between the Big East and Miami, a member since 1991.

I'm as interested in the inside baseball of campaigns as the next politics nerd, but the paper's obsessive attention to backroom maneuvers and spin-room speculation obscures, rather than enhances, my understanding of the candidates.

That said, Republican and conservative "elites" — whoever they may be — are wrong to suggest there is some backroom maneuver that can "stop" Trump or prematurely narrow the field.