Chinese wall
green baize door

But in practice there is no Chinese wall between them.

"Our experience with Chinese walls in recent years is not great."

From the top they think they have a Chinese wall.

"You learn to maintain a Chinese wall between yourself as board member and your firm's searches."

Chinese Wall training of one hour has been scheduled on the dates listed below.

They deny that the concept of a Chinese wall ever existed.

"What is he doing peddling stock if there's a Chinese wall?"

What we have to ensure is that there are not any "Chinese walls" between these various operations.

There need to be "Chinese walls" only in the budgetary sense.

The theory of Chinese walls is not good enough.

His further explanation shows how, on occasion, Chinese walls can be less than helpful.

The result: The Chinese wall between giving and selling has come down.

"But nobody can claim that Chinese walls are 100 percent effective.

"The Chinese wall doesn't hold for the adviser," he explained.

There is no Chinese wall between politics and economics.

Chinese walls should be used to prevent information flowing between, not within, departments.

It involves two separate engineering groups separated by a Chinese wall.

The former relies on Chinese walls and possibly mountains of red tape.

It's a case where the Chinese wall is working to injure public investors, rather than benefit them.

But equally, anyone who believed that Chinese walls were fully effective was naive.

The reality is that "Chinese walls" break under pressure.

She had crossed an invisible line, a Chinese wall.

They have suggested the strengthening of these Chinese walls.

The stock exchange has "Chinese wall" rules aimed at preventing such abuse.

In the securities business the process is known as maintaining a "Chinese Wall."

We went back through the green baize door together.

They were now in the basement, standing next to a faded green baize door.

The short hall ended abruptly in a pair of green baize doors.

Pushing open the green baize door at the end of the corridor, he entered the kitchen.

We went up, Keenan in the lead, and emerged through the green baize door into the hall.

I picked up a silver tureen and went through the green baize door for the first time.

The green baize door opened, and the stage manager gesticulated wildly at him.

That was the green baize door, he thought.

Ahead of him was the green baize door he had never seen opened, and beyond that door lay the sick bay.

Two corridors flanked the stairs, the left ending in a green baize door.

"I left the empty kitchen and once again went through the green baize door that shut the servants" quarters off from the main house.

Inferior to these, and lodged behind the green baize door, are the upper servants.

Divisions do not, however, end with the green baize door; on either side of it the sexes are strictly segregated.

'Some of the Kensington types did not like the lack of a green baize door,’ she recalls.

Eventually, the maid led them through a green baize door into the sudden opulence of the corridor off which the bedrooms opened.

He moved cautiously down the long corridor towards the green baize doors, fully aware that it was not the proper way upstairs.

He went along the cold stone corridor, through the green baize doors, and so up the softly carpeted stairs to his bedroom.

Behind the green baize door.

He left me and passed through the green baize door to the servants' wing; while I went to my bedroom and changed my things.

And without explaining who that was, she turned on her heel and left, going back through the green baize door and leaving it swinging.

The green baize door would swing open and she would pop in to raid the fridge and have a chat.

He turned the handle and opened the door and fumbled for the handle of the green baize door inside.

He reached the green baize door safely, and when it sighed behind him, it was like Stone's weary patience asking him to come back.

While they were still engaged in argument George Key hurried through the room and, barely grunting at them, disappeared by way of the green baize door.

The introduction of bell-hanging in the late eighteenth century made it possible to station servants quite out of earshot, behind the green baize door.