However, in this instance select members of the Republican Party leadership who continue their overt assaults against President Elect Obama is not hyperbole.
There are other steps involved too, aside from overt sexual assault.
The promotional ramp-up for Rihanna's 2009 release "Rated R" didn't shy away from allusions, both covert and overt, to her assault at the hands of the R&B star Chris Brown.
I woke up each day, shambled a few yards to my most powerful computer and was transported to the mystical land of Ferelden, a fantasy kingdom riven by political conflict and under assault both overt and clandestine by unappeasable demonic foes from beyond.
Unless seculars have lapsed from a faith as adults, they are generally poorly informed of what the religious issues are apart from the more overt forms of physical assaults on religious and the vandalism of religious property; they are too often blind to the slights that seculars inflict on religious every day.
Back then it was overt, coarse and overdue for assault.
Liberal, outward-looking Israel has been under sustained assault, taking its most overt form this year with a publicity campaign mounted by a rightwing activist group, Im Tirtzu, which named and shamed artists it branded "moles in culture", slamming them for supporting leftwing organisations partially funded by foreign governments.
Adulthood adversity variables included sexual assault and the experience of overt discrimination such as being fired from a job or refused an apartment.
At least three times — at the ages of eleven, twenty-three, and fifty-two — Helen Keller was assaulted by accusation, doubt, and overt disbelief.
The Modified Overt Aggression Scale (M-OAS) [ 60] has seven items: verbal assault; assaults against objects, against others, against self; global subjective irritability; global overt irritability, and suicidal tendencies.
