While Foreign Office officials will not confirm or deny the widespread media reports here that two Britons employed as private security guards in Iraq have died in captivity, various accounts point to the likelihood that Alan McMenemy and Alec MacLachlan are probably dead.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

Lately there have been accusations that some private, competitive liberal arts colleges are trying to avoid being seen as "too female."

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Farrah Fawcett often received more attention for her troubled private life than for her work as an actress.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

Because of this, the Guthrie family became more private as they attempted to hide Nora's problems.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

Maya Lin also designed a private home known as "The Box House" in Telluride,Colorado.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

And,she asked students from private schools to volunteer at the camp as helpers.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

Some spend six years or more as residents before beginning private practice.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

And,as a private citizen on a humanitarian mission, that was very good."

VOA: special.2009.08.08

Percival Lowell attended American and European private schools as a young man.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

However,it is no longer used as a private home.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

"This approach is a signal to the private space community that they can look to government partnerships, government as a user, or even government as an investment partner as they go forward."

VOA: special.2010.04.28

"In the past two years, candidates are not seeing social media as a place that we have to keep private from prospective employers but as a tool that will assist in my search."

VOA: special.2011.05.13

But about 1.5 million people are crammed into private homes, often as many as 24 to a single room.

VOA: standard.2009.06.19

The U.S.plan includes setting up public-private investments to soak up as much as one trillion dollars in troubled loans and securities.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

Republicans argue a government plan, also known as the public option, would undermine the private insurance industry.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

Ben Reiss left his job as an assistant public defender in favor of a higher paying job with a top private law firm.

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

Part of Mr.Clinton's mandate as U.N.Special Envoy is to help encourage more private sector investment in Haiti.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

There is no large public ceremony expected, and it will be held as a private event on the heavily-guarded grounds of the presidential palace.

VOA: standard.2009.11.18

Most contentious was the proposal for a government-run insurance option, also known as a public option, to give Americans a choice over private insurance companies.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

The two-day Forum for the Future brings together public and private sector leaders from the West Bank and Gaza as well as Afghanistan, Algeria,Bahrain,Egypt,Iraq,Jordan, Kuwait,Lebanon,and Libya.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Yvonne Haddad, an Islamic history professor at Georgetown University, says Islamic schools serve the same role as the many other private, church-oriented schools in the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

During an appearance on a national TV news show, she described herself as a private person who finds it's difficult to allow personal emotions to show through in her songs.

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

And there is another option available as well private insurance.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28