"overt conflict" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or condition in which there is open or obvious disagreement or hostility between two or more parties. This phrase is typically used in contrast with "covert conflict," which refers to conflicts that are hidden or not expressed openly. Example: The two political parties were engaged in an overt conflict during the debate, with each candidate openly attacking the other's policies and qualifications.
Many of the newly popular board games focus on competitive exploration and development rather than on overt conflict.
I didn't stay long enough with them to observe them closely, but there didn't seem to be any overt conflict.
The requirement introduced by Sarbanes-Oxley that auditors report to independent non-executive board directors rather than company management has reduced one overt conflict of interest.
These developments are in overt conflict with widely accepted principles of good educational and democratic practice: No reform of any consequence should be based on a single narrow measure of quality.
It manifested itself both in strange absences – litter, overt conflict, graffiti, noise – and in the positively unusual: the huge numbers of people in surgical masks, the baffling signage, the sedate cyclists beside me on the pavement, the schoolboys in their Prussian uniforms.
The Fellows' responses to the NOMA question fall across the spectrum from overt conflict to peaceful co-existence.
The conflict between those Sanders supporters and Clinton supporters has outlived the overt conflicts between Sanders and Clinton themselves, because it is essentially a duelling case of I-told-you-so.
Many government panels in the United States tolerate overt conflicts of interest in order to get expert advice, Mr. Harvey said, noting that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase on its board.
The overt class conflict of the late '70s ended a while ago.
Indeed, everyone I spoke to — black and white — agreed that, despite Mugabe's best efforts, there is very little overt racial conflict in Zimbabwean life.
Consequently, this may create an overt sexual conflict over the timing of mating, which may drive evolutionary adaptations in C. elegans to manipulate hermaphrodite mating cues in order to increase self-reproduction.
