But they privately suggested that some of the most important questions were finally yielding answers.

This winter, they suggested privately, the market was supposed to offer less lucrative contracts for free agents.

Martin privately suggested to Epstein that the band use another drummer in the studio.

State Department officials have suggested privately that the Singapore option could be acceptable.

But many baseball officials privately suggest that he is a master at playing teams against one another, keeping all sides guessing about competing offers.

Some Defense officials have privately suggested the Pentagon should reopen the case in light of that criticism.

Indeed, White House aides have privately suggested that there is nothing incriminating or significant in them.

Early in the 1999-2000 season, some Nets privately suggested that Marbury did not pass enough.

Jefferson entered office as a skeptic of the national government's power and even privately suggested that the purchase was unconstitutional.

But opposition members here said Belgium had privately suggested that the opposition's objectives were well beyond those of other countries with an interest in the issue.