The term "overt claim" is correct and can be used in written English.
An overt claim is a statement or assertion that is explicitly stated or made obvious. It is the opposite of a covert claim, which is implied or hidden. Example: The politician's overt claim was that he would create more jobs, but his covert claim was that he would also cut funding for public schools.
Former member Sara Lim told VICE she doesn't recall overt claims of "curing" disorders, but says the ideas in the curriculum were suggested to apply to things like obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Unlike many health-food restaurants, Crustacean, a family business, started out as a Vietnamese restaurant, without overt health claims.
His defenders say he is simply preaching abstinence outside marriage and monogamy within it, so if people are following his advice they can't contract HIV – but in order to reinforce the first part of his message, he spreads overt lies claiming condoms don't work.
In an open letter to Dame Suzi Leather, the chairman of the commission, Sheila Lawlor, the director of think-tank Politeia and a former Conservative candidate for local office, complains of its "overt politicisation", claiming that the changes in the law did not require schools to be subject to such scrutiny.
Just as Mr. Gore issued no concession, Mr. Bush made no overt move to claim the legally insignificant but politically potent title of president-elect.
But any overt move to claim users or their affinity clouds will trigger extremely negative effects.
While several prosecutors, including Mr. Fox, said they were skeptical of charges that the justice system was overtly racist, some scholars who have studied criminal proceedings claim that overt racism might be only a part of the problem.
Gonzalès's work faced criticism because of what audiences and critics claimed were overt similarities to the style of Manet, which, at that time, was considered somewhat crude.
Since then, claims of overt racism have diminished, although cases still crop up, like another suit filed two years ago by 15 officers at East Jersey State Prison -- including Mr. Leak -- again alleging the use of racial slurs, graffiti and retaliation.
Many feminists have been wary both of the biases contained in Freud's oratory and of the overt content of his claims.
