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They only know the moments that make up their story, even when the book is closed.
But what we saw is, in the post-9/11 era, they used secrecy and they used the justification of terrorism to start these programs in secret without asking Congress, without asking the American people, and it's that kind of government behind closed doors that we need to guard ourselves against, because it makes us less safe, and it offers no value.
ES: I would say the last year has been a reminder that democracy may die behind closed doors, but we as individuals are born behind those same closed doors, and we don't have to give up our privacy to have good government.
And the hatch is closed, and suddenly, what has been a lifetime of both dreams and denial is becoming real, something that I dreamed about, in fact, that I chose to do when I was nine years old, is now suddenly within not too many minutes of actually happening.
CA: So that's a general response saying that because of his revelations, access that you had to certain types of information has been shut down, has been closed down.
Our lungs push air against the closed folds, blowing them open and vibrating the tissue to produce sound.
Sometimes we know who they are, sometimes we don't, but there is that feeling, the shared experience, the shared bond where we know that that experience and that chapter of our life, while it might be closed, it's still not over.
Smiling at a television screen isn't going to make closed captions appear for people who are deaf.
And the mystery box, in honor of my grandfather, stays closed.
It stored samples of it in closed jars which were found after the peaceful revolution.
On the occasion of my first visit, we toured his house and we saw hundreds of works of museum quality, and then we paused in front of a closed door and Dr. Robicsek said, with obvious pride, "Now for the piece De resistance."
Having closed this quick introduction, we see the reality that we have out here, which is drought, this climate change, things that we already knew.
That night, my hand found an open space where the closed window should have been.
And this is why conventional advice to women in 40 years hasn't closed the gender gap at the top and won't close it.
On average, talent and performance management systems in the organizations that I've worked with focus three to one on the other two elements of leadership compared to the importance of business, strategic and financial acumen, which is why typical talent and performance systems haven't closed and won't close the gender gap at the top.
And all countries should make sure that no one fleeing war and persecution arrives at a closed border.
Paralysis had closed over his body slowly, beginning in his toes, then legs, torso, fingers and arms.
Universes are opened and closed continually.
People thought that gentlemen should sit behind closed doors and make comfortable agreements.
Thanks to modern technology, the government knows far too much about what happens behind closed doors.
Can you imagine saying that to somebody with a broken leg: "Oh, just walk it off; it's all in your leg." (Laughter) It is time we closed the gap between our physical and our psychological health.
Not only that, if instead of using my hand with the fingers, I use my hand closed into a fist, that makes this even a little bit more interesting.
Even if you know what your aim is, think of ideas as freely as if you were throwing darts with your eyes closed.
Okay, now keep your eyes closed because, did you hear the difference?
Now, here's a macro forecast that's easy to make, and that's, that gap between the wealthiest and the poorest, it will get closed.
But alas, that hole has closed up.
Behind closed doors, FBI agents admitted that what they were doing was farcical.
Behind closed doors, the lead agent, the squad supervisor, described their would-be terrorist as a "retarded fool who didn't have a pot to piss in."
You could do that with your eyes closed.
I became so hysterical over her treatment, that eventually, she was just beaten behind closed doors.
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