This back-door approach makes a mockery of a planning system supposedly based on consultation and scrutiny by elected representatives.

And now, my back-door approach using Senator Lewis has been slammed in my face.

He also asked whether extending the moratorium was "a federal power grab, a back-door approach to consolidating all power firmly and finally in Washington?"

"This is a back-door approach to forcing people to take a political litmus test to check their loyalty," Mr. Ackerman said.

I've never been enthusiastic about this back-door approach, though it would have merit were the terrain less ghastly.

This back-door approach is a disgrace to our country.

Although a back-door approach, these investigations succeeded in exposing for the first time the existence of such Soviet operations.

Many Republican proponents of the idea see them as a back-door approach to a much more fundamental overhaul of Social Security itself.

"But why sabotage it by such a back-door approach?"

There are many reasons why military contractors prefer to take a back-door approach on missile defense.