Sentence examples for overt assertion from inspiring English sources

Such a pragmatic posture, coming immediately after a period of more overt assertion of traditional al Qaeda behavior, has opened up a potentially consequential division within Jabhat al-Nusra.

The art of black solidarity gets less traction because the postmodern art world is, at least ostensibly, allergic to overt assertions of any kind of solidarity.

After globalization, trade liberalization, and opening of Indian economy to foreign direct investment in 1991, the process of "confession" has become more overt from writing to political action and assertion of one's own identity and demand for a queer-space.

He said that "the path of President Obama and his overt hostility to faith" would lead the country to "the guillotine," an apparent assertion that for Obama, hope and change are the smokescreen, deficits and decapitation the real agenda.

"Despite diplomatic assertions that the sanctions are designed to avert recourse to overt foreign intervention in Syria, if they do not have an impact on the regime's behaviour, talk of more direct – perhaps military – measures is likely to increase," said David Hartwell, of the IHS consultancy in London.

Nothing overt.

Overt hostility?

Overt racism?

"It was too overt.

Some references are overt.

"Racism was more overt.