Sentence examples for overt objective from inspiring English sources

The isolation of the Iraqi population, enforced primarily by the United States and Britain, has manifestly failed in its overt objective: it has served only to allow Saddam Hussein to tighten his grip.

Although not an overt objective of the present study, our biomarker analysis revealed that AS is associated with elevated levels of bone-turnover markers and cytokines, in line with previous findings [ 18, 30].

Although intuitive from a biomedical perspective and visually appealing, the merit of these graphical representations now requires feedback, if not overt, objective comparison among them as well as others, from clinicians, health practitioners and patients.

Whatever the overt objectives, the damage to Colonel Qaddafi's grip on power is already significant.

An experimental study was designed with the aim of knowing the effects of the subjective perception of partner violence victimization (yes vs. no), gender (male vs. female), and psychological violence type (subtle vs. overt) on objective partner violence victimization; the evaluation of the observed degree of violence, the adult attachment and on the conflict resolution tactics.

Yet it is the overt and covert objective of all communicators, which journalists are and academics often are not.

We believe secondary prevention would target subjects at the preclinical phase to avoid progression to overt clinical AD and this objective could be hypothetically achieved by risk-factor intervention or disease-modifying therapies.

There is a substantial literature on professionalism in which the attitudes and behaviours of tutors and consultants are frequently identified as elements of the "hidden curriculum" which can either reinforce, or undermine the objectives of the overt curriculum [ 27, 28].