Everyone in the public spotlight has private issues he or she would like to keep hidden.

The likely reason is that education was still largely a private issue, with exceptions, and under the control of the church.

Mr President, violence against women is not a private issue.

Decisions about pregnancy, she says, should be "a private issue between patient and doctor."

But certain matters were private issues of the heart.

These were precisely the kind of series that could explore sensitive public and private issues.

What were once private issues were now in the public realm.

"That is a private issue, one I do not intend to discuss with you.

He talked about the topic the next day, but not much, insisting it was a private issue that had nothing to do with baseball.

You wouldn't go around with a bullhorn announcing a private issue to the world, and the same thing goes on the Internet.

But most of these so-called sexual issues or private issues are between spouses and families.

She took a deep breath, uncomfortable discussing such private issues in so intimate a manner.

All of that adds up to more of a private issue, rather than a public one."

May, though, says the band had agreed that the core of a lyric was a private issue for the composer.

The right to abortion is a private issue.

"Let them resolve their private issues by themselves."

But the agencies also have standards that may not apply to private issues, making them potentially riskier.

And also he believes it's a private issue.

I prefer that to be a private issue.

Abortion is a private issue, and will, one hopes, someday cease to be a political issue.

More to the point, these are just the kind of shows that might, however gingerly or obliquely, explore sensitive public and private issues.

It was upon such essentially private issues that so-called 'international' agreements could founder in the thirteenth century.

We in this Parliament must respect the dividing-line between private issues and public and political matters.

For now, his housing concerns are a private issue, not something he broaches with his co-workers.

The new CD is also considered a private issue, with the proceeds going to the musicians' pension fund.