Sentence examples for only overt from inspiring English sources
A gleaming Aston Martin, with personalised number plates bearing her initials in the small car park is the only overt sign of the fortune she has amassed.
It is creating a binary choice, where both the answers are surveillance, only overt or covert, when that shouldn't be the choice at all.
Mr. Acosta's interview has the only overt anti-war sentiment in the Bekman show, and there are few words of bitterness or recrimination.
Pilgrimage of Grace, (1536), a rising in the northern counties of England, the only overt immediate discontent shown against the Reformation legislation of King Henry VIII.
The only overt intimation of holiness around them comes when the Wise Men arrive, and for the first and only time the soundtrack, which has been dominated by the sound suggested in the film's title, swells with music.
The only overt sense of 111-years of history comes from the photographs of old Doncaster on the walls, and the lock boxes under the snooker tables containing the regular players' cues.
But overt interference can only create unnecessary tensions and suspicions.
The Americans With Disabilities Act took aim not only at overt discrimination against people with disabilities, but also at barriers to access in the public and private sectors.
Though many countries admit migrant workers only temporarily, overt guest-worker policies like West Germany's in the 1970s and 1980s were not a roaring success, tending to hamper integration and foster resentment.
Title VII not only dismantled overt employer practices like reserving certain jobs for men or paying women less than their male colleagues; it also, via a steady stream of court decisions, outlawed behaviors that were previously tolerated — such as sexual harassment or refusing to promote women deemed insufficiently "feminine" in appearance or demeanor.
"For his part in this effort," said Professor Milani, who is chairman of his college's history and political science department, Mr. Golshiri "had to face not only the overt threats of the Islamic regime but the covert, murderous work of its death squads".
