official channels

The main thing is that I can do it through official channels.

I can see why he doesn't want to go through the usual official channels.

"We have your word that you'll keep this out of official channels?"

We should back off and let official channels handle it?

No way she could learn the trade properly through official channels.

They couldn't afford the time to go through official channels for anything.

"I suppose you'll find out soon enough through official channels."

"We cannot keep going through all these ministers and official channels," he said finally.

Sometimes it was better to get the word through official channels rather than as a rumor.

Official channels can't work very well, but the unofficial ones do.

Only that I think we should go through official channels."

Fritz had spent most of his life outside official channels.

I'd do everything I could to progress the investigation myself, and to hell with the official channels.

And that way we don't have to go through official channels."

The real news does not travel fast in this Communist country, at least through official channels.

The lieutenant told them to put their protest through official channels.

But I can take care of the two ends through official channels."

"Don't break the news to anybody you find; we'll let the official channels do that."

I haven't got time to go through official channels.

Experts said it was essential the young sought help from official channels.

It didn't cross his mind to report the matter through official channels, however."

"Unfortunately, by the time it came through official channels there was little we could do.

It was neither the first nor the last time he would be surprised by intelligence efforts inside the Bush administration but outside official channels.

In general, student activism at Harvard is limited to official channels.

"Any such request should come through official channels," Stella said.