Sentence examples for overt approval from inspiring English sources
But it goes much further, calling for the criminalisation of "overt approval of a totalitarian ideology, xenophobia or antisemitism".
In its final report, it observed that "although the official policy of both the UDF [the broadly-based United Democratic Front] and the ANC was to condemn necklacing, the public statements of the leadership of these organisations were sometimes ambiguous and appeared to give tacit, and sometimes overt, approval to the practice".
It has been just as stunning to watch politicians, pundits and commentators provide subtle and overt tacit approval to these behaviors.
There is no rationalizing this diabolical dementia which is now seizing our youngest members of Islam, for rationalization leads to justification, which leads to tolerance, which leads to covert approval and ultimately, to overt support.
If Obama were to borrow money without congressional approval, then that would be an overt violation of the most basic principles of constitutional separation of powers -- that Congress has the ultimate power over government because it controls the flow of money.
* * * Perhaps the most disturbing thing about the 97.7-per-cent approval rate is that there is no overt evidence of widespread fraud.
Georgie endures a lot for us, for being in love with a trans man: the public, overt comments and stares, and the private, subtler lack of approval from family.
Although mass communication places enormous potential power in the hands of relatively few people, traditional requirements for popular approval and assent generally have prevented its use for overt subversion of culturally sanctioned institutions.
As a condition of ethical approval those with a recent (past 2 years) history of overt maltreatment or who were on the UK child protection register were also excluded.
