He says bipartisan deals on Social Security or taxes won't happen unless Bush changes his tune by, for example, backing off his insistence on private accounts for Social Security.
More troubling to the view that this none the less amounts to utilitarianism is Godwin's insistence on private judgment as a basic constraint, and his associated characterisation of the fully moral agent in terms of the fullest possible development of the individual's intellectual powers and potential.
Hollande's insistence on a private life that needs to remain such makes sense only if we assume a shared notion of selfhood – essentially, that a public, perceptible face conceals a private, imperceptible self.
The White House's insistence on a private, no-tech meeting made political sense -- the president's aides have no interest in allowing pictures that might make him look vulnerable under questioning or overly reliant on his older vice president.
My own problems with You Me Bum Bum Train, which I've also written about on my own blog, are aesthetic rather than ethical: by using volunteer performers, its participant performers are, in some way, a second audience, so that the question of who's watching who perform rather undermines the show's own insistence on the private experience it offers.
It sought to bridge the gap between Labour's manifesto commitment to keep the underground in public ownership and the Treasury's insistence on introducing private-sector disciplines.
This reluctance to answer back is part of an insistence on keeping his private life locked away, an unfashionable reticence in an age when many public figures blog from the bedroom and Twitter from the divorce court.
The current impasse over Germany's insistence on the role of private investors in the next bailout highlights the difficulties.
The reason for the ban, according to Reddit's administrators, was not the beliefs of people on the subreddit, but the way they'd behaved — specifically, their insistence on publishing their enemies' private phone numbers and addresses, a clear violation of Reddit's rules.
Was it the insistence on a one-year contract?
Well, Congress's support for community rating and universal access doesn't fit well with its insistence that health-care reform must rely on private insurance companies.
