Sentence examples for backed channel from inspiring English sources

Bland, who was chairman of the BBC's board of governors – the predecessor to the BBC Trust – between 1996 and 2001, backed Channel 4 chairman Lord Burns, who said the trust should be replaced by a unitary executive board – headed by a chairman working alongside the director general – and an outside regulator.

Hayden was furious about this back channel.

I approached him through a back channel, through a friend.

He is not ruling out some kind of back channel.

Back Channel to Cuba, by William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh (North Carolina).

So we agreed to reactivate the back channel.

Assange smirked, and told me there was no back channel.

"This could be a way to develop a useful back channel for Karzai, as well as a back channel for the administration.

For the Syrians, he added, "the best channel is a back channel — it's ideal.

"The dirt and secrets are in the back channel," the former senior intelligence officer noted.

But the mere fact that the back channel was established was a big development.