The quest proceeds behind closed doors, like a papal election, and successive meditations on the koan produce more or less adequate results.
The authorities said the woman, Cheng Chui Ping, was the head of an extensive international human smuggling ring, as well as a shrewd Chinatown banker who laundered her ransom proceeds behind a Broadway storefront.
'Investigations (in Congress) often proceed behind closed doors, for the manifest reason that otherwise some witnesses would not be frank, perhaps would not attend, putting themselves if possible beyond the reach of the committee.' Luce, Legislative Procedure, p. 144.
The judge at the High Court said the case should proceed behind closed doors, as publicity would defeat the purpose of the hearing.
The search for a new Los Angeles schools superintendent is proceeding behind closed doors, but the underlying power politics extend well beyond the room where seven elected Board of Education members are at work.
Among the observers watching the proceeding behind soundproof glass were several family members of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the Sept. 11 attacks, separated from reporters and other observers by a blue curtain.
The other mourners closed ranks and proceeded behind them to the burial site, forming a dark line that snaked out across the flatness of the land in the brilliant midmorning sun.
To proceed behind a military band through streets lined with bunting and cheering suffragettes feels about as close as you can come to the festive optimism of marching off to war; albeit while wearing headsets and radio transmitters to follow the action.
With the case proceeding behind closed doors, observers must rely mostly on updates from Mexican officials, despite the fact that authorities have been accused of torturing suspects and obstructing the IACHR panel's attempts to clarify what happened on the night of Sept. 26, 2014. .
Is the $10bn on its way from Abu Dhabi and Dubai a gift, a loan or the proceeds of a behind-the-scenes asset sale?
Even though the students shrieked when prompted, the Islanders proceeded to fall behind, 6-1.
