There was media speculation in Israel that Netanyahu may have publicly ruled out a freeze but will privately impose one.
Pilot schemes before Lansley's grand project for the NHS (a classic old-style political scheme, hatched privately and imposed arrogantly, with not nearly enough consultation) would have avoided nine-tenths of the mess and thus his humiliating U-turn.
Some Conservative thinkers, including Osborne allies, privately bemoan the limitations imposed by a kind of stubborn, frequent-flier libertarianism in the ranks.
The Guardian revealed earlier this week that at least 24 prestigious projects in Scotland, which would have lifetime borrowing and maintenance costs of up to £10bn over the next 35 years, were being restructured and delayed as a result of the new tests imposed on privately financed projects by the EU statistics agency, Eurostat.
Even when resources are privately owned, governments impose environmental, reclamation, and other civic duties by regulation.
A report by the National Audit Office published in July revealed that cost-cutting measures imposed on the privately run facility will see staff axed and replaced with self-service kiosks.
The Soviet invasion is widely seen as the beginning of what Afghans now call their "forty-year war". Soviet citizens at the time were bewildered and privately furious about the officially imposed silence and mounting casualty toll — all while the state was collapsing.
Pentagon officials have privately accused China of violating United Nations sanctions imposed against Iraq for its 1990 invasion of Kuwait, by improving communications so Baghdad can go after the air patrols more successfully.
The fourth factor that renders the choice of a privately designed standard less probable is the requirement imposed by a cooperative to choose a public standard, because it may be connected with a collective (group) certification by gaining subsidies.
Additionally, those who prefer to discuss status privately are spared the fraught choice that old designs imposed.
