Sentence examples for secretive decision from inspiring English sources

The aroma still wafts around I.B.M.'s secretive decision in the final days of 2001 to use the proceeds of an asset sale to offset its sales, general and administrative expenses.

Assembly members of all ethnic groups and regions have found fault with Mr. Silver's reserved manner and secretive decision-making.

The bottom rankings show "some governments failing to protect citizens from corruption, be it abuse of public resources, bribery or secretive decision-making," the organization said.

And when the same party, supposedly synonymous with democracy and transparency, is accused by its own members of secretive decision-making, that could spell electoral oblivion.

Critics argued that this would lead to secretive decision-making, but journalists now regularly use the act to hold public sector bodies to account.

The Communist Party's secretive decision-making and its aversion to airing its internal arguments openly look increasingly hard to sustain in a nation where three hundred million people now debate almost everything on the internet.

Given how thoroughly our police have eroded public trust in recent years through their aggressive tactics, secretive decision-making, and resistance to civilian oversight, a cop's cop may well be the last thing Toronto needs now.

The four people who spoke to The New York Times — a former senior anticorruption investigator, a Chinese businessman with high-level connections, a political analyst with ties to senior officials and a businesswoman with family ties to Chinese elites — spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the risk of recriminations for discussing secretive political decisions.

The accountability commission was similarly secretive about its decision.

An unparalleled behind-the-scenes look at a most secretive administration's decision to invade Iraq and its struggle to contain a war that has found neither its promised justification nor an exit strategy.

The failure to critically examine the role of ministers and officials has further encouraged the sort of secretive and unaccountable decision-making that will no doubt shroud the decision-makers today and those who sit and read the cables.