Sentence examples for overt effort from inspiring English sources

The demimonde has yet to return; it may never, but the overt effort at social stratification is past.

Think about George Bush's most overt effort to politicise the CIA by picking Republican ideologue and hatchet man Representative Porter Goss in 2006.

Israelis were suspicious of Obama to begin with and became even more so when he made an overt effort to get closer to the Arab world.

And even when rejecting the new book, most of the 542 school boards across the country have strenuously avoided touching upon the nub of the controversy: its overt effort to sanitize Japan's past.

"As a Republican elected official, I am terribly disappointed by this overt effort to pack the supreme court with political pals who will do the bidding of those who have engineered this attack on judicial independence".

"And obviously it had an adverse effect, especially in this election, where there was such an overt effort on the part of the campaigns to court those independent voters".

"Now, because the music industry is in such bad shape, overt efforts to manufacture buzz are expected.

"You can look at all that as artificial," Fassel said of his overt efforts this past year to foster a kinship among his players.

Gore campaign aides say they have been struck by the overt efforts by Senator Kerry and Secretary of Energy Richardson to win Gore over.

He also doesn't view the jockeying being done by global policy makers as lobbying or overt efforts to influence his decision about a country's ratings.

"Sometimes we think there's been overt efforts on the part of the Taliban, in particular, to surround themselves with civilians so as to, at a minimum, reap an I.O.