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America may well want to offer the Germans carefully-crafted spying guarantees, but only privately, in case everyone else wants the same.
A priest treated for sexually abusing a minor in the past but who is still considered a potential risk would be allowed to say Mass, but only privately, and would not be allowed to wear priestly clothes.
For the Clinton campaign, we're not supposed to pay attention to what she did (which, according to her recently released schedules, included a handful of pro-NAFTA meetings) but what she said about NAFTA (but only privately, at least, until it was politically convenient).
What the Negro has discovered, and on an international level, is that power to intimidate which he has always had privately but hitherto could manipulate only privately — for private ends often, for limited ends always.
It is a feeling widely held, but as yet only privately stated, by most on the right.
Communist countries attempted for a few decades to reject public gambling institutions as decadent and anti-Marxist, but later only privately organized gambling was in disfavour.
Normally that is expressed only privately, but it sometimes breaks out into the open, as during the referendum in April over keeping open the West's old Tempelhof Airport.
We must ask these questions, not only privately but also in public, to avoid becoming complicit in what is done to them.
West Acton has a Starbucks but Sweet Bites is the only privately run neighborhood coffee shop with its own style and idiosyncrasies.
There is continuing rancour, but now only privately expressed, about a briefing to the press on behalf of the company back in January 2012 in which the MSC was said to have been created "to drain the swamp".
