The draft of "arrangements for a general settlement" presented today was supposedly confidential, but photocopies of the eight-page document circulated moments after being formally presented to the participants.

Two of the supposedly confidential papers before the December meeting of Council quickly found their way into the press.

He also objected to public comments on a supposedly confidential report.

(as Harman notes drily, "surely one of the most self-conscious, attention-grabbing pieces of supposedly confidential writing ever composed").

Ken Starr's investigation was supposedly confidential, but his team was displaying a remarkable talent for calculated leaks to the media.

Supposedly confidential, I guess I should say.

Mr Sarkozy's opponents are now demanding that Mr Hortefeux be investigated for interfering with a supposedly confidential independent judicial probe.

The findings do not differ substantially from supposedly confidential surveys the ruling party itself has undertaken on a nationwide basis in recent months.

The information was supposedly confidential, but as a state employee he knew which computer buttons to press.

But its lobbyists managed to extract the teeth from Senator Judd Gregg's proposed legislation, and the intercorporate trading of supposedly confidential Social Security numbers has mushroomed.