Sentence examples for an overt clash from inspiring English sources

The S.& P. downgrade has elevated this simmering standoff to an overt clash.

In the 1940s and early '50s, drama found immediate subject matter in the overt clash of politics, ethics, and philosophies, public and personal, that were the substance of everyday life.

And yet, despite the foreign-ownership issues, there may be good prospects that Alcatel and Lucent can avoid an overt Franco-American culture clash.

And there's an overt religious element?

ESPN is now trying an overt appeal to high schools.

"Ecstatic Nation" is not a book with an overt agenda.

Russia's president, Dmitry Medvedev, called this an "overt provocation".

It hardly comes at the reader with an overt agenda.

"It was an overt play to the racist vote".

But finding these swarms requires an overt search or the serendipity of a Tweet.

In this analysis, TAc looks like an overt PRO.