Words similar to backdoor

Example sentences for: backdoor

How can you use “backdoor” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

In his State of the Union address, he announced that the Department of Justice would sue cigarette companies to recover Medicare costs of smokers, a backdoor way to have the courts increase federal tobacco revenues without going through Congress.
And the administration is lending tacit support to cities suing gun manufacturers, a backdoor way to have the courts make gun policy without going through Congress.
(The 128-bit encryption currently sold by foreign companies contains no such backdoor.)
The Washington Post gave similar backdoor treatment to the Willey affair, mentioning it only in the context of Willey being subpoenaed by Paula Jones' lawyers.
A backdoor appropriations victory is not exactly the strong-arming triumph a chief executive is supposed to win over Congress.