Some state and local government officials say that this requirement is a back-door route to killing the taxes.

So I kept pressing, trying every back-door route I could think of for getting more information about those islands.

He said the defense was trying to obtain the material "through the back-door route."

A back-door route into Kazakhstan is possible through the Karkara Valley.

The city's system of licensing and hiring teachers presents such an obstacle course that school principals resort to back-door hiring routes, a report said yesterday.

So the drug companies have turned to promotional gimmicks, like newsletters and celebrity appearances, as a back-door route to getting to patients.

This is an interesting back-door route into Malaysia.

"Sorry for the back-door route, gentlemen," Hayes apologized, "but we have security problems at the present time."

Instead, take US 20, a seldom used back-door route into South Dakota, if you have the time.

If you have time, consider visiting them as part of the back-door route into Guǎngxī.