Sentence examples for overt challenges from inspiring English sources
Such overt challenges signify the honeymoon is over for Mandela's liberation party.
Overt challenges to his rule have been limited, as they were after today's announcement, when there were scattered arrests of supporters of opposition political parties, and some recent opinion polls have suggested that he is supported by a majority, or something close to it, among Pakistanis.
AMMAN, Jordan — That one of the most overt challenges yet to the authority of Jordan's king took the form of a song-and-dance routine speaks to the restraint with which the Arab Spring has unfolded here over the past 16 months.
63 64 66 77 79 87 92 93 This ranged from a 'management culture of benign neglect rather than of active opposition' 93 to overt challenges such as not respecting ring-fenced time for family work.
For 15 years, Moscow had been happy enough to let Amirov build his fiefdom, because at least he kept it disciplined, and posed no overt challenge to the centre.
The $2 billion contract, which Total shares with Russia's Gazprom and Malaysia's Petronas (Total has 40%, the other two 30% each) is an overt challenge to an American law passed last year (see article)."Total's decision to call Washington's bluff is part of a move by Europe to defy America's extra-territorial laws," rejoiced Iran's news agency.
His overt sexuality challenged me on so many levels.
Even in the absence of overt infectious challenge, the background level of immune defence is likely to be regulated through the bumblebee life cycle.
Si's first encounter with overt anti-Semitism challenged that goal.
If clubs and the authorities do nothing to challenge overt sexist chanting then it is hardly conducive to a welcoming atmosphere for one in four of those packing stadiums in the top flight.
John Williams, senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Leicester, said there were some unsavoury aspects of the game, including "the very overt (and barely challenged) routine racism among spectators" and "the terrible food and facilities" at grounds.
