confidential talks

I hope you will understand that these are confidential talks.

We may question the usefulness of the parties having confidential talks behind closed doors.

Brooks knew Thurber well, and the two had frequently held confidential talks.

Come for confidential talks in the arbours and the walks"

They often have confidential talks at night.

"As the various delegates have arrived, I have taken the time to have many confidential talks with them.

On Thursday, about a dozen young people trooped through a maze of corridors to a room used by American negotiators for confidential talks.

In the spring of 1797, he held four confidential talks with the French consul Joseph Letombe.

December 15, 2012: In confidential talks, Boehner proposed an increase in tax rates for those who earn over a million dollars.

"I have had some confidential talks with Mr. James Wilder, his Graces secretary.

She worked closely with Mao and was privy to some of the confidential talks that helped establish the foundations of Chinese-American relations.

Dyer contrived a series of confidential talks with each of them in which he gradually revealed more of the situation as their reactions and attitudes became apparent.

Mr. Gerald, an insouciant figure who arrived occasionally to have long, confidential talks with the head librarian or the doorman, seemed oblivious to these gentle requests.

Of course there was a rapture, followed by one of the deliciously confidential talks which bosom friends enjoy, interspersed with tears and kisses, smiles and sighs.

Marshal Tito and his party, for Mao, were at the time beyond the pale; the Chinese would not hold confidential talks with those they considered "revisionists," or renegades.

According to current and former government experts, Kim Jong Il promised in confidential talks not to produce, test or deploy missiles with a range of more than 300 miles.

During her time as consul-general in Hanoi in 1969, the confidential talks she enjoyed with the Soviet ambassador owed something of their success to his chauvinistic attitudes towards women.

Diana knew exactly what Anne thought of Charlie Sloane; but, despite sundry confidential talks, she did not know just what Anne thought of Gilbert Blythe.

The case under review, Basic Inc. v. Levinson, involves the confidential talks leading up to the merger of two chemical companies, Basic Inc. and Combustion Engineering Inc.

Confidential talks are under way between Britain and China on Hong Kong's future, the local government said today, but one of the best-kept secrets here is whether the talks are making any headway.

Al Obaydi's boss always preferred to have confidential talks on the floor of the General Assembly: he suspected it was the only room in the United Nations building that wasn't bugged by the CIA.

Last week, after orchestrating seven months of confidential talks in venues as varied as an upstate beer garden and the Governor's offices on the 57th floor of the World Trade Center, Mr. Finnegan prevailed.

On October 3, 2006 The Times reported that the United States had agreed, in confidential talks in June 2006, to return all nine of the British residents held in Guantanamo-but only under stringent conditions.

"I think the time she spent living in the desert has driven her insane," Yamina had confided during one of the many private and confidential talks with the Imam she always managed to arrange in his chambers in the Temple.

"Just that he visited the monastery, that he saw the church restoration, that he had some confidential talks with church leaders, that he spoke about religious freedom and that he saw the symbol of it in Danilov Monastery."