Sentence examples for overt intent from inspiring English sources

That these items were produced without the overt intent to offend shakes both Goldberg and Kondabolu.

But policy instruments remain that deepen ethnic and racial differences, even if that isn't the overt intent of these policies.

Whether dictatorship is the overt intent of Donald Trump or not, what cannot be denied is that a move like this runs completely counter to the very idea of our Republic, whose very Constitution goes to very, very great lengths to prevent usurping of that kind of power.

There has been no suggestion of overt racist intent.

The government also must show that the employees committed "overt" acts with "intent".

Indeed, the explicit intent and overt effect of the most common means of reducing malaria transmission, by indoor residual spraying or use of insecticide treated bed nets, is in reducing average age in vector populations, thereby delimiting the expectation of infective life of the mosquito vector population.

Prior successful uses of the federal criminal statute involved instances where malicious intent was more overt.

"It's our intent not to do any overt selling," Mr. Hogan, who represents the medical equipment side of the business, said in his opening remarks.

Often overt and at times more subtle, Christian hegemony is oppression by design and intent, but also by neglect, omission, erasure and distortion (Blumenfeld, 2006).

The subscales are: (1) intent to harm (perpetration), (2) feeling of hurt (victimisation), (3) overt aggression, (4) relational aggression, (5) repetition of behaviour, (6) imbalance of power between the perpetrator and the victim, and (7) covert behaviour.

Once viewed through this prism, many of events of the past decade -- from the government shutdown to the deliberate (and overt) takeover of American courts by the rightest extreme -- become clear in their intent.