Sentence examples for describe privately from inspiring English sources

There is a surprisingly rich and dynamic academic literature developing around the concept of "sousveillance," a term coined by the University of Toronto professor and inventor Steve Mann to describe privately made recordings that can serve as a counterweight to institutional and government surveillance.

More than 2,000 islanders – described privately by the Foreign Office as "Man Fridays" – were evicted from the British colony of Diego Garcia in the 1960s and 70s.

Dubai especially is described privately by American officials as a centre for trade-based money-laundering.If countries refuse to take the steps that America and its allies demand, what then?

With its emphasis on punishing euro nations that exceed deficit and debt level, the agreement, or "fiscal compact," has been described privately by one official as a plan to criminalize Keynesianism.

Mr. Bush's speech today at the University of Alabama at Birmingham was the third time in a week he has tried to calm what his political advisers have described privately as a market panic that if unchecked could threaten Republican prospects in November.

By 1997 he was happy with Labour's economic policy, describing it privately as "almost pure SDP".

He also describes a privately witty woman, the kind who tells Mr. Bush to "rein it in, Bubba," when he gets out of hand.

" 'The Scream' on the Block" (editorial, May 5), about the private sale of one of the four versions of Edvard Munch's "Scream," describes the privately owned work as "in the wild," and the three others as "captive in Norwegian museums".

Voters' confidence in the system is low: even members of the ruling party privately describe it as "a game".

It seems a high price to pay for Lisbon, a treaty that many officials privately describe as a second-rate compromise.It may not come to this.

Exactly how this bright, airy restaurant, with what many diners privately describe as middling food, achieved its status as cafeteria to the media elite is a bit of a mystery.