Over at the manse the Reverend William McIvor, in a drab overcoat, let himself out by the back door and rode off to the north-east by a back path through the woods near Taymouth Castle, keeping his grey garron on a tight rein and stepping slowly so that the hoof-beats were nearly soundless.
One young representative, Colin Mason, a computer systems manager from Streatham, who branded environmental controls as socialism by the back door, was gently advised by the Secretary of State to read the Tory philosopher Edmund Burke.
The similarities are made more comprehensible in the 1930 essay, Baudelaire, where he sees Baudelaire's Satanism as an attempt to get into Christianity by the back door.
It would impute to Parliament an intention to import the convention into domestic law by the back door.