Sentence examples for overt issue from inspiring English sources

Sexuality was not the overt issue — at least not in the sense that I had fallen in love with someone.

Mr. Obama has said he has no intention of making age — Mr. McCain is 25 years older — an overt issue in the general election campaign.

He told the paper that he would also revive the retrograde policy of "don't ask, don't tell" in the military, because, "I don't think that in the military you would particularly want sexual behavior to be an overt issue".

The pity is that this has led Labour and Liberal Democrats to make racism an overt issue in the election, by laying what looks increasingly like a trumped-up charge against Mr Hague.

The results of the poll, conducted against the backdrop of a campaign in which race has been a constant if not always overt issue, suggested that Mr. Obama's candidacy, while generating high levels of enthusiasm among black voters, is not seen by them as evidence of significant improvement in race relations.

The potential for trouble posed by prohibited guns on crowded airplanes is obvious, even beyond any overt issues of terrorism or premeditated crime.

The overt issues in contention between Shas and Mr. Barak concerned the finances and oversight of the religious party's indebted school system and the legalization of its pirate radio stations, which have been nicknamed "the holy channels".

In their first effort to turn the Enron collapse into an overt campaign issue, Democrats today unveiled a commercial attacking Elizabeth Dole, one of the Republicans' best-known Senate hopefuls, for attending a fund-raiser given by Kenneth L. Lay, the former chairman of Enron.

The court also took overt actions, issuing decisions in cases concerning drug sentences, corporate fines and union dues.

While no overt cultural issues at Slack have hit the mainstream, Butterfield says he recognizes that Slack is not immune from them.

This paper shows how cognitive interviewing with pairs of interviews per iteration of the questionnaire can be used to identify overt and covert issues with comprehension, retrieval, judgment and response experienced by respondents when attempting to answer a question or navigate around the questionnaire.