Sentence examples for overt attack from inspiring English sources

The ground has shifted and from an overt attack on workers' rights to the more subtle takeover of cultural production – music, art, film, media – by the well-to-do.

While her new novel is surely her most overt attack on the traditional limits placed on women in India, it hints at how US women, with their sun beds and supermar kets, are also in thrall to prescribed roles.

President Clinton ordered American warships to the edge of the straits -- but not inside them -- to make clear that America could intercede if there was an overt attack on Taiwan.

Mr. Obama left it to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., speaking earlier in the day, to make an overt attack on the Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney.

While the Cole's crew had extensive training in repelling an overt attack by a small boat and even had extra sailors on watch on Thursday, the attack had been so meticulously disguised and carried out that the officials said there was little the crew could have done to stop it.

While the Cole's crew had extensive training in repelling an overt attack by a small boat and even had extra sailors on watch on Thursday, the attack was so meticulously disguised and carried out that the officials said there was little the crew could have done to stop it.

The advertisements are striking in that they are devoid of any overt attacks on opponents.

Not through overt attacks on Mormon theology and practice, which would be out of bounds for most mainstream outlets.

Mr. Lazio refrained from overt attacks today, since he came to the Huntington Hilton here in Suffolk County, his home base, to briefly praise a program sponsored by HUD, the Community Development Corporation of Long Island and Fannie Mae, the federal home financing agency.

At one level, that is a brilliant-if-cynical strategy by the White House: If liberal publications are attacking progressive independent administration critics like Taibbi, then the implicit message beyond the overt attacks is that someone like Taibbi's arguments can be wholly written off not on the substance, but on the simple fact that he clearly must be on the extreme ideological fringe.

Interestingly, aggressive displays were consistent within individuals, whereas overt attacks were not.