Antonyms for back channelback chan·nel

Princeton's WordNet

1. back channeladjective

   an alternative to the regular channels of communication that is used when agreements must be made secretly (especially in diplomacy or government)

   "they negotiated via a back channel"

2. back-channeladjective

   via a back channel

   "the failure of back-channel negotiations"

How to use back channel in a sentence?

1. Authors Kornbluh and LeoGrande:

   They remain anonymous in part so they can continue effective back channel diplomacy in the future ... when and if it is needed for Washington and Havana to resolve remaining obstacles to fully normal relations.

2. Bill Richardson:

   Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, in Doha, told me that if I wanted Michael White, I needed to produce an Iranian in a German prison whose name is Ahmad Khalili, bill Richardson operated a back channel with the Germans.

3. Randy Credico:

   I was definitely not some kind of back channel.

4. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer:

   Which isn't a lot. But this primary is just getting started.Both of these things can't be trueTrump's main pitch for reelection is the economy and, while it hasn't lived up to his 2016 campaign promises, he put forward an extremely rosy outlook in his annual budget proposal, released Monday.Just as an example, read from CNN's story about the predicted deficits in Trump's budget compared to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.Both of these things cannot be true:CBO says budget will grow -- The deficit -- the gap between how much the government spends versus how much it takes in -- surpassed $1 trillion for the calendar year in 2019, marking the first time since 2012.That number is only expected to widen even further over the coming decade, reaching a total of $1.7 trillion in 2030, according to the latest projections by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released in late January.White House says budget will shrink -- That's a sharp contrast to the White House's latest blueprint, which projects that the deficit will shrink to $261 billion by 2030. The President's budget assumes that the economy will grow at around 3% annually during that period of time helping to narrow the gap. Those estimates are significantly higher than what most economists anticipated along with the Federal Reserve.Bonus: Read CNN reporter Donna Borak's piece on the White House plan for more tax cuts despite the deficits.Impeachment falloutGiuliani has a channel to Barr -- Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Rudy Giuliani is giving information regarding his Ukraine conspiracy theories to Attorney General William Barr through some sort of special channel Barr has set up. This is not surprising since Trump clearly lumps his lawyer and the attorney general together. He asked Ukraine's President to be in touch with both of them. But a back channel to the DOJ? This is, um, not how things are supposed to work, writes Elie Honig.Trump weaponizes the presidency -- Read this from Stephen Collinson: (Trump) is completing his project of fashioning the office around his own personality. It's unrestrained, unaccountable, often profane, impervious to outside influence and factual constraints of normal governance. The President has established dominance over his party, his Cabinet and his own media complex. He loosened Congress's constraints by refusing to cooperate with the impeachment probe. The result is that there are very few political constraints on his behavior left.

5. Mickey Bergman:

   Bill Richardson operated a back channel with the Germans, bill Richardson didn't need the Mickey Bergman administration for that, especially after the Wang release. Bill Richardson'll do the back channel and then from the Iranian perspective they get their man out.

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