(a.) Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.
(a.) Secret; clandestine.
(a.) Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.
(a.) Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.
(n.) A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party.
(n.) A necessary house or place; a backhouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) He or she is privy to all facets of care that are being administered to the patient.
(2) A system for detecting such cases was established through liaison with other hospital peer review committees or any physician or nurse who was privy to specific information and willing to submit it in writing.
(3) He privately told the privy counsellors' committee of inquiry set up to review the events leading up to the invasion: "If I may be very frank and rather rude, you had to keep the ball in the air with the Argentines.
(4) I can therefore tell all members of this house that the cross-party charter will be on the agenda at a specially convened meeting of the privy council on 30 October.
(5) The use of self-topping aqua privies, discharging through sewers to oxidation ponds, has made possible the economic installation of water-carriage systems of waste disposal in low-cost high-density housing areas.In the oxidation ponds, typhoid bacteria appear to be more resistant than indicator organisms; helminths, cysts and ova settle out; there are no snails and, if peripheral vegetation is removed, mosquitos will not breed.
(6) The privy council’s antiquated oath, which is supposed to remain secret, also requires members to promise “not (to) know or understand of any manner of thing to be attempted, done, or spoken against Her Majesty’s person, honour, crown, or dignity royal”.
(7) They were challenged by Democratic senator Ron Wyden who, as a member of the committee, has for years been privy to classified briefings that he cannot discuss in public.
(8) Under the agreement, the royal charter must be granted by the Privy Council which meets on 8 May and then sealed by the Queen.
(9) Asked about the invitation, Cameron’s official spokesman would only say that the prime minister had been clear in public that all privy counsellors were entitled to security briefings if they asked for them.
(10) "So why are the government rushing it through to the privy council, which they control through the cabinet?
(11) "Creating some sort of privy power seems quite an interesting alternative to Leveson's recommendations for statue, which we oppose," said Cooper.
(12) The privy council only provides the flummery which camouflages their autocracy.
(13) Not being privy to the processing and presentation of SPZ Ag, we postulated that a different order of processing of the authentic, i.e., SPZ-associated CS protein vs soluble rCS protein might be responsible for the generation of different T cell specificities.
(14) Today, the privy council is headed by Nick Clegg and is made up of all cabinet ministers and a number of junior ministers.
(15) I believe in having all the information, as much of it as I possibly can, rather than making a decision or statement about whether I totally agree or disagree when I wasn't privy to the situation."
(16) He was also considering a new bill which would ensure the charter could not be changed by the Privy Council and could only be changed by a "super majority" – perhaps two thirds – vote in the Lords and the Commons.
(17) There is the scope for members of the national security council, privy councillors, to ask questions and the like to better understand the work that the agencies do.
(18) But Ashworth said the public deserved answers, "given that Mr Rock had a senior role at the heart of government and was privy to the most sensitive information".
(19) Speaking to journalists at a Broadcasting Press Guild lunch in London, Whittingdale said: "There is a real possibility that the Queen or privy council will refuse to recommend any royal charter when there is disagreement between the parties or disagreement between the government and industry.
(20) During the time of the Norman kings the privy council was the main body which governed Britain, fulfilling the kind of role that cabinet performs today.
Ulterior
Definition:
(a.) Situated beyond, or on the farther side; thither; -- correlative with hither.
(a.) Further; remoter; more distant; succeeding; as, ulterior demands or propositions; ulterior views; what ulterior measures will be adopted is uncertain.
(n.) Ulterior side or part.
Example Sentences:
(1) Total gastrectomy is rarely indicated in childhood and when necessary it involves multiple ulterior therapeutic problems, mainly nutritional, which need a meticulous physiological approach to avoid further complications, as illustrated by the following patient who, at age 15 months, was submitted to total gastric resection, Y en Roux esophagojejunal anastomosis and splenectomy, because of peritonitis secondary to dehiscence of a recent esophagogastric anastomosis for partial gastric resection due to gastric volvulus and necrosis, which in turn were associated to diaphragmatic relaxation.
(2) She described the president, whom she has known for 40 years, as “a person without ulterior motives”.
(3) The addition of alpha-ecdysone permits only cellular divisions, a preliminary and indispensable condition for ulterior differentiation.
(4) The report made wild guesses, and was groundless and with ulterior motives,” the spokesperson said, adding that China’s stance was “clear”.
(5) Number 10 has been trying to contain the damage by briefing that the former work and pensions secretary is a ludicrous figure with an ulterior motive.
(6) Refugees from the Middle East and north Africa are “masking the movement” of terrorists and criminals, Nato’s top commander told Congress on Tuesday, despite the protests of human rights groups who say that refugees overwhelmingly have no ulterior motive but escape.
(7) Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said the Dalai Lama had "ulterior motives" for his remarks.
(8) Ulterior motive in the helper would have to be excluded.
(9) "There are no ulterior motives other than genuinely sharing things we enjoy.
(10) After de follow-up study over 10 years regarding the children coming from a special scholarship (type 8) and having received all the adapted aids, it seems that a good adaptation has resulted to a good ulterior professional training college.
(11) As ever with Ashley, people will look for ulterior motives.
(12) A spokesman, Hong Lei, said the report "blackens China's name and has ulterior motives".
(13) But there is an ulterior motive,” said Luke Akehurst, a Labour councillor and former NEC member.
(14) After 12 weeks the mean pressure was ulteriorly lowered to some 104.3 mm Hg (13.90 kPa) on bopindolol and to some 106.0 mm Hg (14.12 kPa) on metoprolol.
(15) While the Greek prime minister, George Papandreou, acknowledged that his country's problems are "homemade" and that his government has a duty to put "our own house in order", he went on to claim that the crisis had been exacerbated by outside interference: "This an attack on the eurozone by certain other interests, political or financial … We are being targeted, particularly with an ulterior motive or agenda, and of course there is speculation in the world markets."
(16) I have an ulterior motive for wishing to contribute to Gove's scheme.
(17) The quality of the relation of attunement determines probably the ulterior level of the inter-subjective relatedness of the ability to "be-with", to share.
(18) Questioned by Pleming, Roberts denied he had said the marine reserve idea was a plan with an "ulterior motive" – namely, to prevent the islanders from returning.
(19) Hugh Lovatt, Israel and Palestine coordinator at the European Council on Foreign Relations , said that while al-Arouri was a significant Hamas figure – serving as the group's most prominent representative in Turkey – the former militant could have an ulterior motive for making his claim.
(20) Ulteriorly however, although dosages of Metiamide were increased, acid hypersecretion resumed and a duodenal ulcer developed.