The phrase "acting privately" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is performing actions or making decisions without public knowledge or in a confidential manner.
Example: "The committee is acting privately to ensure that sensitive information remains confidential."
Alternatives: "operating discreetly" or "functioning in secrecy".
After a last theatre season in Prague (1917 18), he settled in Mödling, near Vienna, teaching privately and acting as supervisor for the Schoenberg-founded Society for Private Musical Performances (1918 22).
Suzan Mazur: You've written a book titled Who Owns the Future?. Do you have concerns about a few people, privately funded, acting as intelligent designers of more or less a second genesis on Earth?
Referring to her as Miranda, Lowell wrote that she stole old ideas and presented them as her own, she was genuine only in her spite and "when acting as censor, she privately blows a censer of vanity 'neath her own nose".
The daughter of a professional hockey player, Dewhurst eventually moved to New York City, where she studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and privately under Joseph Anthony and Harold Clurman.
Both Podesta and the acting Democratic National Committee chairwoman, Donna Brazile, have privately mused about the integrity of the election result, according to two sources familiar with the conversations.
That these multimillion-dollar blockbusters are made in the same way many of the creators first approached them — acting out their favorite scenes privately — is not lost on the people here.
Still, hammering together the deal that gave Lightstone a prominent position in the list of privately held companies acting as retail landlords in the country required skills beyond what he had ever had to muster before, he said.
While many private companies were performing well, "we have, however, seen an irresponsible minority of privately held companies acting carelessly – leaving employees, customers and pension fund beneficiaries to suffer when things go wrong.
Blunt accused Bryant of being a "classist gimp" after the frontbencher questioned why so many leading figures in the acting and singing professions had been privately educated.
The first possibility is one that has only been whispered about within Democratic circles: that Mr. Corzine may privately offer the job to acting Gov.
