They didn't view their service as a back-door draft. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2004] Reference
They're really a back-door way to save for retirement. From Wordnik.com. [Capital Ideas] Reference
FINDLING: But this is almost a back-door interrogation. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2009] Reference
Twa Daughters, and a back-door, are three stark thieves. From Wordnik.com. [Collection of Scotch Proverbs] Reference
There was some kind of a back-door deal that was cut then. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2006] Reference
And there's some other back-door policies that may surprise you. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2006] Reference
A back-door front pushing away some very moist air, warm air, too. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 2, 2007] Reference
GIBSON: Well, I want to get into the issue of the back-door draft. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2004] Reference
I avoided my many suitors, and escaped from the theatre by a back-door. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
They call that kind of a back-door way to force redeployment from Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2007] Reference
We have a back-door cool front that wants to sneak down from the northeast. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2007] Reference
What about a back-door draft where only the poor are going to Iraq and dying?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2004] Reference
People trooped in crowds to McAroon's back-door after closing - time to toll him so. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21] Reference
I ` ll explain how her premium cap is nothing more than a back-door tax on the rich. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2008] Reference
U.S. intelligence officials have had back-door channels to insurgent groups for many months. From Wordnik.com. [Exclusive: Direct Talks: U.S. Officials and Iraqi Insurgents] Reference
I ran into the kitchen through the back-door and found the biggest knife there on the counter. From Wordnik.com. [Warthearm] Reference
He thought about finally getting to the hardware store and fixing the latch on his back-door. From Wordnik.com. [Man Loses Life] Reference
But Jim Hoffa, the president of the Teamsters says this is a back-door tax on the middle class. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 22, 2009] Reference
THE CATHOLIC LEAGUE: I think that it's really slipping in atheism in kind of a back-door fashion. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 7, 2007] Reference
A lot of passive voice, sort of back-door acknowledgements that we've learned from our experience. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2005] Reference
Also, the stop-loss strategy, or back-door draft, or stealth draft -- whatever you want to call it. From Wordnik.com. ['We Were There'] Reference
How he got home he did not know, but he seemed to be at the back-door of the yard immediately almost. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jolliffe's Boys] Reference
Thinking me one of the family, he loosed his hold on my broadcloth and hurried away to the back-door. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
JOHN KERRY (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We've got a back-door draft taking place in America today. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2004] Reference
At the rate he was walking he soon got there, and going round to the well-known back-door, he knocked. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jolliffe's Boys] Reference
But be quiet I could not, and I strolled out of the back-door of the inn, and so into a wide field behind. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator] Reference
If you think this looks like a back-door plan to almost double almost everyone's subsidy, we agree with you. From Wordnik.com. [Ms. Lincoln, in the tall cotton] Reference
"I will so," her son replied, and kissed cook as she let him out of the back-door, which she fastened after him. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Democrats are arguing that this bill essentially is a back-door attempt to create a national identification card. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2005] Reference
Also, you've got this too small of a market, these guys say, to justify the back-door access that China could get. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 2, 2005] Reference
Most recently, and what puts him at the top of the list is his spreading the notion of an Obama back-door amnesty plan. From Wordnik.com. [Amy Novick: Presenting the Immigration Hall of Shame] Reference
We were yet charmed with the idea of being back-door neighbours of the old plantation; but not at quite such long range. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference
In some ways, re - importation as it's called has been a back-door approach to buying lower priced medications in this country. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 29, 2005] Reference
June, came through the Union lines by the Maryland back-door, that he would make peace on no other terms than a recognition of Southern. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
She Yüeh opened the back-door, and raising the woollen portière and looking out, she saw what a beautiful moonlight there really was. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
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