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Example sentences for: backdoor

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A backdoor appropriations victory is not exactly the strong-arming triumph a chief executive is supposed to win over Congress.
Having legalized itself through the backdoor, the industry proceeded to duck, skirt, or break every law passed to control it.
Kasparov reacted by reaching deep into the sports-cliché moan bag, maintaining that he had been cheated by some kind of backdoor playmaking help from the IBM team, that the real Garry Kasparov hadn't shown up at the match ("I was not in a fighting mood"), and that his coaching had been bad ("my biggest mistake was following the advice of computer advisers who recommended I play this way").
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.
The backdoor sniping has become so pernicious and prevalent that even retired Gen.