Sentence examples for overt goal from inspiring English sources

Offred gets a more overt goal: to find her family.

The overt goal was to destroy underground bunkers, arms storage sites and air defense locations.

"Its overt goal," Sever Plotzker wrote in the newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth this morning, "is to prepare public opinion, in Israel and around the world, for a large-scale military operation that will topple the Palestinian Authority and lead to Arafat's expulsion".

China's government has sought to capture the zeitgeist, helping set up several hundred Confucius Institutes around the world whose overt goal is teaching Chinese, but which also project soft power.

But each process can undermine the other, especially in the classroom setting, where passing a test may be a more overt goal than enjoying the story.

Russia invaded Poland to ensure the defeat of the Polish reforms, with no overt goal of another partition (it viewed Poland as its protectorate, and saw little need in giving up chunks of Poland to other countries).

The key idea, supported by findings in cognitive neuroscience, is that the same internal models used in overt goal-directed action execution can be covertly re-enacted in simulation to provide a unifying explanation to a number of apparently unrelated individual and social phenomena, such as state estimation, action and intention understanding, imitation learning and mindreading.

The AES-C consists of 18 items which provide an index of overt goal-directed behavior, goal-related cognitions, and goal-related emotional responses.

Although the overt goals of CRM are effective use of resources in anticipating and responding to adverse events, the skills required are rooted in effective communication, perception, decision-making and leadership.

By that time, New Labour had loosed the second great wave of outsourcing across Britain's public services – although now under a rubric of improving choice and value for money for citizens, rather than the overt Thatcherite goal of dismantling the state.

Although it has no overt political goals, the sudden assembly of 10,000 protesters at the leadership compound in 1999 was an overtly political act in a country where demonstrations are banned unless they have permits.