Sentence examples for agreed privately from inspiring English sources

As the awards season entered February, voters agreed privately they had had enough of the blue-skinned giants.

Evidence from the papers shows Palestinian negotiators agreed privately in 2008 to let Israel annex all but one of the settlements built illegally in East Jerusalem and accepted the return of a symbolic number of 10,000 refugees to Israel.

In Bain's biggest acquisition, the $32.1 billion purchase of the hospital giant HCA in 2006, competitors agreed privately to "stand down" and not bid on the company as part of an understanding with Bain to divvy up companies targeted for leveraged buyouts, according to internal e-mails.

Senior officials at the White House, the Justice Department and the Pentagon have agreed privately that it would be better to reach a plea bargain in the Khadr case so that a less problematic one would be the inaugural trial, according to interviews with more than a dozen current and former officials.

They need to have agreed privately which is to be "Oranges" and which "Lemons".

In 2008, campaign officials for both Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to agree privately to boycott some of the debates in an attempt to keep the number down.

REFORMING the welfare state is one of those nettles that politicians on all sides agree privately will have to be grasped--as long as someone else does the grasping.

Grumpy shareholders are also exerting a downward push on pay as banks are forced to concentrate on profit rather than revenue.Senior executives at most leading investment banks will agree privately that in the boom years they had their eyes mainly on revenue targets rather than profits or returns on equity.

That depends on two factors: how many lawmakers agree privately to support the idea if it is debated, which makes it more likely that the original co-sponsors will push hard for it; and how Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz)., who leads the legislative process on the defense bill as chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky).

Rather than fighting their battles in public courts and commissions, they have agreed to privately negotiate.

When he agreed, I privately assumed he was a committed liberal, out of sympathy with Israeli military policy.