Sentence examples for consultation behind from inspiring English sources

Dull discussion about media policy in public, while the minister takes the big decisions without wider consultation behind the scenes.

The opposition would like to take some credit for making sure those protections are there at all – there was some cross-party consultation behind the scenes before this morning's announcement – but Ed Miliband will have to compete with Clegg for those bragging rights.

"A veto is definitely an option if the issue is not resolved in a way that provides the kind of immunity that we believe that non-party states to the I.C.C. that send troops to international peacekeeping missions should receive," said the American envoy, John D. Negroponte, after three hours of consultations behind closed doors.

It says the consultation process behind the plan was unfair and legally flawed.

Just as worrying is the lack of consultation and research behind such a proposal.

And in recent years, the state church has tacitly sought compromise and cooperation, ordaining bishops after behind-the-scenes consultation with the Vatican.

Neither of the authors behind the consultation document — David Eastwood, vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, and Alan Wilson, director-general for higher education in the government's Department for Education and Skills — would comment.

Mr Hutchinson says that after the then DETI minister Arlene Foster had "endorsed" a subsidy scheme and it had been backed by respondents in a consultation process there was "momentum" behind it and it was felt that "that is the route that we're taking".

She said planning issues and poor consultation, particularly by the minister, David Tollner, were behind rural voter dissatisfaction with the CLP.

McInroy suggests it is an "opaque and technocratic plan" that few fully understand, devised behind closed doors with little consultation with the public or frontline staff.

For the sample of 67 patients (Fig 1) Table 1 suggests that the primary motivations behind the consultations for both referring and consulting doctors were diagnosis and management concerns.