Indeed, the State Department is running its own back-door appeasement operations with the hated regime.
These have proved controversial, with critics - including some Lib Dems - warning of "back-door privatisation".
By the early 2000s, many Chinese executives would bristle at the talk of corruption and back-door practices.
Critics counter that CAFTA will undermine certain U.S. industries and serve as a back-door to more Chinese imports.
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This would amount not only to a back-door nationalisation but also to an indirect merger with Malaysia Telekom.
Ending the penalty would simply be a back-door way of ending the mandate.
Meanwhile, ministers have warned councils against "charging by the back-door" for refuse services.
The industry has been abuzz all week over the back-door incentives used to induce the studios in question to abandon Blu-ray.
Apparently not: today President Obama will use a back-door recess appointment to get Berwick to started at his new job.
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If TRAP laws are a back-door ban to abortion, these near-total bans are your anti-choice neighbors barging uninvited through your front door.
Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry has implied that it's a sneaky back-door draft.
Jean-Claude Trichet, currently the governor of the Bank of France, was meant to be a shoo-in following a back-door deal in 1998.
He knows how to spare tax pain for individual investors in Berkshire, too: His plan is to pay back-door dividends via share repurchases.
Peter Pace, Chairman Levin is seeking to engineer a stealthy, back-door reversal of the Senate's historic position on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
But they were out-fought by a hungrier Fermanagh in the provincial semi-finals and now have fallen at the first hurdle in the back-door system.
Without them, voters could react badly to a back-door injection of public funds if bank bosses and shareholders did not take responsibility for their mistakes.
The Justice Department, which has kept those restrictions on Yousef since 1997, argues that Yousef is trying to find a back-door route out of solitary.
At least one back-door registrant has admitted to inventing manufacturing contracts.
His critics accuse his ruling Justice and Development Party, the AKP, of attempting to seize control of the judiciary as part of a back-door Islamist coup.
Mr. Chan acknowledged Friday, however, that the HKMA looked into possible abuse of the new system by those looking for a back-door means of procuring yuan.
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The trouble for U.S.-listed Chinese companies began with the back-door listings and a high percentage of them having underlying problems with the companies merged into the shells.
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Tellingly, the government's only worry about the deal is that it could lead to a back-door introduction of heavy-handed American-style regulation a threat it will block through a change in the law.
Labour rebels, who fear greater freedom from local authorities could mean a "back-door" return to academic selection at age 11, want a national code on admissions to be made legally binding.
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After scrubbing a back-door listing on Nasdaq scheduled for April 14 -- the day the exchange recorded its highest point drop ever -- Global Sources is going ahead with plans to go public.
We want a much fairer system so that people pay more according to their incomes for our public services, not the sort of taxes through the back-door which Labour have introduced during the last four years.
Mr Clegg said he wanted guarantees that there would not be "back-door privatisation" of the NHS, and the Lib Dems would not allow the bill to be passed "unless I personally am satisfied that what these changes do is an evolutionary change, not a disruptive revolution".
By barring all media from covering the event, Obama transformed what was supposed to be a friendly visit with a respected and friendly head of state into a back-door encounter with an unwanted guest, who was shooed in and shooed out of the White House without a sound.
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By 1987 he was bringing clothing and medicine to Baan Borang and then hand-packing a few silk items on each trip to sell door-to-door back in Singapore.
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