It was, essentially, diplomacy conducted through a drop box.
Much of his business was conducted through a haze of alcohol.
Denied access today, the Guardian's interview was conducted through a downstairs window.
They were conducted through a stockbroker, Charles Stanley, which Lord Archer had never used before.
Abdullah, 28, a farmer's son, said his beliefs would not allow him to speak directly to a female reporter, so the interview was conducted through a male translator.
And although our hour-long interview, conducted through a translator, is almost entirely focused on the dancer himself, the story is, as he says, far bigger.
Chiang writes the human-alien encounters as leisurely endeavors, conducted through a looking glass, in a utilitarian tent, over the course of months.
It is not possible for price reporters to establish who did the suspicious deals as they were conducted through a third-party brokerage firm.
There'd usually be a cigarette dangling from one of them; back before the smoking ban, chats in his Westminster office were usually conducted through a thick blue haze.
All of the trading is conducted through a system of 60 computers connected to the rest of the world through a dozen high-capacity telephone lines.
The movie's close encounters – conducted through a glowing screen in an eerie chamber inside the alien craft – deliver that sense of otherworldly awe that sci-fi fans crave.
