Sentence examples for closed door agreements from inspiring English sources

If an open, multistakeholder standard development violates antitrust laws, so too would any collaborative self-regulatory effort -- even more so closed door agreements negotiated by industry associations such as the Network Advertising Initiative or Interactive Advertising Bureau.

As I write and you read, legislators have allegedly made final closed-door agreements on Certificate of Need (CON) reform -- a law in which statists protect established health care facilities and hospitals from competition.

As part of a behind-closed-door agreement, USFWS also pledged to review hundreds more species proposed for listing.

While that concept was largely sacrificed at the altar of realpolitik in Copenhagen, where the U.S., China, and other heavy emitters hashed out a closed door non-binding "agreement," Angelica's work is far from over.

Trade agreements negotiated completely behind closed doors are a recipe for protectionist agreements, not free trade agreements.

Closed door tightly.

"Sorry," she said through the closed door.

(7) Never cut to a closed door.

He stepped over to the closed door.

Dinner appeared from behind a closed door.

Then Zalika points to a closed door.