I teased him that the car business was just a back-door way to help him buy airplanes.

And critics say the precedent could provide a potent back-door way for corporations to challenge the American legal system.

So, it's a back-door way of getting kids excited about language.

It's finding out who knows what without doing it my way, the back-door way.

He said this power had essentially become a back-door way of running the economy from Moscow instead of letting consumer demand drive industry.

He said such requirements had tended to be used as a back-door way to try to eliminate abortion.

This page has advocated many of the same reforms - but not as a back-door way of forcing lower troop numbers in Iraq.

"It was a back-door way of getting it, but I had no choice," he said.

They've found a back-door way to site homeless families in private facilities.