| If the Democrats weren't engaging in these backroom deal-making deals, I think they wouldn't mind the lights being turned on. |
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| Since all affected parties had access to the information synthesised by the consultant there was hardly any danger of backroom deal-making. |
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| In addition, there is a decades-long history of suspicion surrounding oil company operations in Alaska because of environmental damage and rumored backroom deal-making and political payoffs. |
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| He wanted to slice through the pontificating speeches and backroom deal-making, the corrosive disagreements between the house and the senate, all of which paralyzed legislative action. |
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| Many felt that Hosokawa's real promise, not so much of any particular reform, but of openness, fairness, and an end to backroom deal-making, had been betrayed. |
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| Instant tweets make a mockery of the backroom deal-making essential to politics. |
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| The investigation has drawn public attention to Mr. Ozawa's use of financing methods and backroom deal-making like those of the now discredited and demoralized Liberal Democrats. |
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| The investigation has drawn public attention to Mr. Ozawa's use of similar financing methods and backroom deal-making as the now discredited and demoralized Liberal Democrats. |
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| But he has kept a slim majority through sheer force of personality, intense backroom deal-making and the absence of coherent center-left opposition. |
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| Mr. Ozawa is a skilled political operator who could help the often hapless Democrats get things done, but whose style of backroom deal-making has made him intensely unpopular by the Japanese public. |
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| But his backroom deal-making became the focus of a series of financing scandals that undermined Mr. Hatoyama, who was also investigated for misreported political contributions from his mother. |
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