(1) He engaged in back-channel diplomacy with Napoleon, on Jefferson's behalf, during a personal visit to France.

(2) Back-channel is, in an asymmetric telecommunications system, typically a low-speed or less-than-optimal transmission channel opposite to the main channel's direction.

(3) The plan is the product of secret back-channel negotiations between US and Chinese officials that were revealed in the Guardian last month.

(4) The US and North Korea do not have diplomatic relations and the Clinton-Kim meeting offered a rare chance to engage in back-channel discussions.

(5) Opposition leaders based in the eastern city of Benghazi initially suggested they made an amnesty offer to Gadhafi[http://], but later denied any back-channel negotiations were under way.

(6) Robert Kennedy, JFK's attorney general, was an important part of the back-channel negotiations that got us off the hook.

(7) The primary performance degradation of SOI device in the total dose irradiation is the back-channel leakage current caused by gate threshold voltage shift.

(8) China's Defense Ministry offered no public statement. Nor, said U. S. military officials, did it provide any back-channel explanation.

(9) Stern, who leaves for China on Saturday, will be accompanied by two experts who were involved in those back-channel efforts, and are now officials in the Obama administration.

(10) News that was scheduled on the line 20 "Jingdong buy" back-channel systems are imperfect because of other reasons, will be delayed on the line, the new on-line time to be determined.

(11) William Perry, a former US defence secretary, said that back-channel talks he was chairing between US and Russian had been making progress.