Sentence examples for privately advocated from inspiring English sources

There were more measured voices that, on balance, were positive: Colin Powell, the secretary of state in the George W. Bush administration, and Harold Koh, the former dean of Yale Law School and State Department legal counsel in the first Obama administration, who privately advocated for a more transparent and less belligerent anti-terrorist policy.

The defence secretary, Leon Panetta, is said to have privately advocated US military incursions into the Haqqani stronghold in Waziristan – a risky gambit other officials reject as dangerous folly, citing the historical record of failure of western armies in the tribal belt.

One such group – the Islamic Forum for Europe – was shown to be privately advocating sharia law in Tower Hamlets, east London.

They have privately and publicly advocated for his appointment for at least two years.

In the process, the governor had to battle the state's own appointed president of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, George Zoffinger, who had privately and publicly advocated that the state hold out for a better deal with the Giants.

In February, he became the Human Rights Campaign's first national corporate spokesman for same-sex marriage, saying publicly what he had advocated more privately for years.

Clinton also has advocated ending privately run detention centers.

Privately, several advocates of the vouchers said they were optimistic that Mr. Bloomberg would preserve the program.

("He looks like what he is," said Hitchens, a privately educated advocate of intervention in Iraq. "A thug... a working-class wide-boy... a cheap character and a short-arse").

They reflect the principles members of Congress have advocated publicly and have discussed with me privately in recent weeks.

The alternative of delaying elections, advocated by some Sunni and Kurdish politicians and, privately, by some Administration officials, would only antagonize the leading Shiite cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the one indispensable man in Iraq today.