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How to use overt in a sentence

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We believe that a more rational approach requires the reorganisation or overt restriction of services.
There was no overt political message because there was no apparent legal validation.
This patient had overt symptoms of acute abdomen, unlike the four previously mentioned cases.
Do you think that a facility of cable television has allowed this sort of niche broadcasting to have overt sympathies expressed on air?
Two cavalierly installed galleries served as dumping grounds for works without an overt social consciousness.
But even when there is no overt sexuality on camera, a film set is a very sexualized place.
Soldiers were told to hide crosses and Stars of David, refrain from overt displays of religion, and they were prohibited from drinking alcohol.
But it is a butler that many people crave, not just because he is the ultimate status symbol and most overt way of flaunting wealth.
When people are fearful they look to any overt power to act for them but we must remember that we can act for ourselves.
Lubenow adheres to a dry empiricism and rigorous abstention from overt theory which he deems appropriately Cantabrigian and Apostolic.
In compensated heart failure, symptoms are stable, and many overt features of fluid retention and pulmonary oedema are absent.
Though physical torture and capital punishment were opposed in all cases, no overt political position was to be taken.
Giuliani used some of the most overt forms in order to present a classic political stem-winder.
Besides relying on information from residents, they also carry out covert and overt patrols.
Clinical examination of the wisdom teeth and the x-ray did not show any overt pathology.
That he avoided overt references to modernity was something the public, shy of change, appreciated.
Aside from trade sanctions and other non-military acts has been this overt invasion of sovereignty.
Once there is more than one overt act, there is a range of possibilities for sentencing.
This was unusual in that it is dedicated to the memory of the battle of the Somme in 1916 and carries no overt reference to Orangeism.
The failure to disarm remains the overt reason why sanctions are still in place more than ten years after an internationally binding ceasefire.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Why not let Xavier take the scouter down for overt diversion, and drop Arthur off in the helihopper for a low-level check?
Educational practice shows a continual tendency to oscillate between two extremes with respect to overt and exertive activities.
He would be cagey enough to stay ignorant of any overt strife or any other skullduggery that could be laid at his door.
And the aim is heuristic, though often enough the search ends in no overt positive conclusion.
These are the telltale overt signs of a comprehensive collapse of the infrastructure and of the export and internal markets.
By which we are shown that though the theory forbids overt recognition of causation, there is an unavowed recognition of it.
I suppose I may say they idolised him, but I never caught them giving him an overt glance.
The dinner went off routinely, with no overt references made to the missile matter.
Turning its back on the overt racism of some southern communities, the Army unwittingly exposed an example of racism in the west.
Also that hankering after an overt or practical effect seems to me an apostasy.
The emphasis was instead exclusively, compulsively, and seemingly disappointedly on the absence of overt public marijuana use.
While you are certainly not an overt whiner, you may be inadvertently inviting helplessness if you tolerate victim-speak from your team.
He no longer felt the presence of anything overt between them.
She seemed in nowise embarrassed by these overt endearments.
At the first overt act of resistance, let them give the word to fire.
On the other hand, the best results may take years for overt appearance.
Any overt act, above all, is felt to be alchemic in its power to change.
It urged for issuing an overt condemnation against the Qatari and Saudi governments, being the terrorists' funders and provokers.
Without one overt act of hostility, one upbraiding word, he contrived to impress me momently with the conviction that I was put beyond the pale of his favour.
Women would have loved him, and would have told him so in the overt and fervid manner usual in affairs of the heart in the shadowy depths of the forest of the Gold Coast.
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