(a.) Acting from behind and in concealment; as, backdoor intrigues.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now, as the Senate takes up a weakened House bill along with the House's strengthened backdoor-proof amendment, it's time to put focus back on sweeping reform.
(2) In 2013, documents leaked to the Guardian by Edward Snowden revealed an internal NSA rule that Senator Ron Wyden has called the “backdoor search provision”, for instance.
(3) It was intended, however, as a response to more radical reforms proposed by congressman Justin Amash, a Republican from Michigan, and is likely to have relatively limited impact on the NSA's ability to collect data on US citizens through incidental means, the so-called backdoor provisions , which was seen as a bigger threat as Snowden's revelations continued.
(4) A total of nine vulnerabilities were claimed by Greil and his team, including the use of a backdoor account, which could easily be compromised, he said.
(5) After having failed to convince the public – despite claiming it was vital the public debate the issue – he then went to a judge to try to force Apple to backdoor its own iPhone encryption using a law written in the 1700s.
(6) I’m not a believer in backdoors or a single technical approach.
(7) Dealing another blow to privacy advocates, the board endorsed the NSA, CIA and FBI's warrantless, so-called "backdoor" searches for information from Americans, just weeks after the House of Representatives voted to ban them.
(8) The “new crackdown on visa fraud”, as the Home Office describes it, is aimed at ensuring that student visas are used for study and “not as a backdoor to the country’s job market”.
(9) Ouabain-dependent phosphorylation of Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase (backdoor phosphorylation) revealed a higher Km for phosphate in intestinal basolateral membranes obtained from diabetic rats compared with age-matched controls, again confirming a decrease in ouabain sensitivity.
(10) The health secretary told MPs the amendments will make clear there will be no backdoor privatisation of the NHS; Lansley told MPs: "Choice, competition and the involvement of the private sector should only be a means to improve services for patient, not ends in themselves.
(11) Davutoglu is the intellectual architect of a new foreign policy – his so-called "backdoor diplomacy" – which has the ambitious vision of "zero problems" with all Turkey's neighbouring countries.
(12) But he said that the report “certainly appears” to resolve another of his major concerns with the NSA: the authority for NSA to search its troves of foreign communications for Americans’ identifying information without warrants – which he calls the “backdoor search loophole” and also first disclosed by the Guardian.
(13) She also criticised rival papers, including the Guardian, for failing to support its fight to prevent the introduction of a privacy law by the backdoor, a familiar News International complaint.
(14) The fear in Dublin is that our border towns would become a backdoor into the UK.
(15) They indicated that USA Freedom Act supporters lacked the votes within the committee to pass the bill that retained the backdoor search prohibition.
(16) Wyden refers to these as "backdoor" searches since they're performed using data supposedly collected for "foreign intelligence" purposes – even though they still suck up huge amounts of purely US information.
(17) October 16, 2014 But there’s a reason that every person you will see advocating for these backdoors is not a technical expert.
(18) The Northern Ireland secretary is making clear this work will accelerate and the existing Operation Gull to tackle illegal migration to Northern Ireland expanded to close any potential backdoor to Britain post-Brexit.
(19) Stanford's Granick held out hope that the PCLOB's assessment would inadvertently bolster the chances for a backdoor-search ban in Congress.
(20) "Whether through tactics that outright ban abortion or backdoor efforts to block women's access to reproductive healthcare providers, the end result is the same: women will be gravely harmed."
Trapdoor
Definition:
(n.) A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.
(n.) A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; -- called also weather door.
Example Sentences:
(1) The material was used as an intrascleral implant in 100 trapdoor retinal procedures.
(2) Moreover, within the question of what provision goes where, lurk trapdoors.
(3) It allows primary closure of recipient and donor site without the formation of dog-ear or trapdoor deformity.
(4) This series included 192 trapdoor and scleral pouch procedures, and 183 operations in which a gelatin implant was used beneath a silicone rubber implant.
(5) Yet the fact remains that, since he left the Liberty Stadium in 2009, a section of the Swansea fans have branded him "El Judas" and City's 3-2 win in May pushed his Wigan side to the relegation trapdoor.
(6) The launch didn’t go well, which was bad news for their nuclear program but good news for the man-eating crocodiles that live under the trapdoor in Kim Jong-un’s bedroom.
(7) For marked trapdoor deformities, the combination of multiple, small Z-plasties along the semicircular scar and peripheral undermining about the trapdoor defect is the corrective procedure.
(8) For mild to moderately severe trapdoor deformities, multiple, small Z-plasties about the periphery of the nasolabial flap are indicated.
(9) Trapdoor fractures of the floor of the orbit were first described in 1965 by Soll and Poley.
(10) Sheath closure after tendon grafting was accomplished by trapdoor of the original sheath, vein patch, and vein conduit.
(11) It has recently been the source of three new kinds of plant, a trapdoor spider , another snail and new kind of Bent-toed Gecko .
(12) Intralesional triamcinolone acetonide injections may produce a "pharmacologic Z-plasty" effect in some trapdoor deformities.
(13) Tissue obtained at seven different time periods was studied by light and electron microscopy and showed only a mild inflammatory reaction of the same grade as or less than that surrounding nylon sutures used to close the scleral trapdoors.
(14) Animals were randomized into three groups based on the type of incision used: inferiorly based trapdoor, vertical slit, or horizontal H. Endoscopic, radiographic, and airflow studies, as well as cross-sectional areas, were compared on all animals surviving tracheal cannulation for eight days and subsequent decannulation for seven days.
(15) In 2009, when a veteran Washington reporter, Helen Thomas, asked Barack Obama in the first month of his presidency if he knew of any country in the Middle East with nuclear weapons, he dodged the trapdoor by saying only that he did not wish to "speculate".
(16) Fractured bone tips were classified to depressive and trapdoor types.
(17) In the modern benefits system, trapdoors abound: if you fail to get the employment and support allowance and find yourself on jobseeker's allowance, for example, you will not only suffer a 14% drop in income but may very well fall foul of the latter's demands and find yourself "sanctioned", with no benefits at all.
(18) The fractures were classified on the basis of the location (floor, medial wall or roof), extent (total, partial or linear) and type of fragments (punched-out or trapdoor).
(19) With regard to the type of fragments, all of the trapdoor type cases showed a favorable result with disappearance of double vision within three months.
(20) Success can be anticipated only in carefully selected cases with relatively circumscribed stenosis, if the so-called submucous resection with micro-trapdoor flap technique is employed.