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Back-channel conversations through third parties, including the Americans, have been held.

Has there been back-channel pressure from other bishops in Canada?

Senior figures in the country's government and military have denied the back-channel talks are going on.

Photographs and electronic signature on their way by back-channel message.

In the meantime, all sorts of back-channel negotiations are under way.

Behind the scenes, several key player agents have been working as a back-channel line of communication.

Showalter said he has had no private or back-channel conversations with anyone.

They have denied any back-channel talks are taking place.

Earlier this month, he hinted in Seattle that a back-channel discussion was already under way.

However, much of this good will has been over the airwaves and direct or back-channel talks have yet to start.

"In other words, they'll tell us that back-channel disclosures are an everyday common practice?"

This odd fatalism came despite Diane’s best back-channel efforts to save him.

It's a straight, easy style of management where I don't have to back-channel anything.'

The back-channel communications began late last week after the union took a break in its negotiations on a new commercials contract.

Back-channel talks are already underway to shape a deal.

But analysts caution that peace talks, even back-channel negotiations, could be a long time coming.

Despite the violence, back-channel peace talks continued in Sweden.

Elected officials and industry figures have attempted to provide back-channel assistance in bringing the parties back to the table.

He has already demonstrated how to use back-channel television - interview and talk shows - to denounce politics as usual.

Nonetheless, he has also been a master of Haiti's nonlinear, back-channel culture.

Lodge tried to get my father fired, writing back-channel letters to the president that he sent by personal courier.

You mean that theyre using this source as a conduit to get back-channel information to us?

Even Chinese back-channel contacts Beijing had permitted were cut dead.

Although top officials will say nothing publicly about the "Sphere," back-channel communiqués suggest some movement.

"There's a lot of time for back-channel politics and continuation of dialogue."