The phrase "overt resistance" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to open or explicit defiance or opposition to something. Example: The government expected to face overt resistance from the citizens when they announced their plan to raise taxes.
He repeatedly points to Hitler's widespread popularity and to the depressingly few instances of overt resistance.
The history of cinema often veers toward nostalgia, in overt resistance to the modern.
Unprotected by unions or labour laws, such staff creatively cope with their situation by accommodation rather than overt resistance.
The combination of overt resistance from middle managers and staff, budget cuts, and participants' waning enthusiasm usually precipitates the decline of the QC program.
As a result there have been very few signs of overt resistance to Isis in Mosul or elsewhere in Isis-occupied territory.
Instead, their accounts reveal how slaves and free blacks struggled to verify emancipation rumors and debated the risks of overt resistance.
The elevated fasting plasma insulin levels in the first degree relatives support the notion that they are in the pre-diabetic stage probably on their way to develop overt insulin resistance.
These efforts intend to foster and to some degree depend on consumer engagement, or at least on the absence of overt consumer resistance".
Critically ill children with hyperglycemia can be classified, on the basis of blood glucose level and HOMA-%S and HOMA-%B, into those with overt insulin resistance and those with decreased β-cell function.
Consequently, we fed rats a high fat diet (55% kcal from saturated fat) or normal laboratory chow (7% kcal from saturated fat) to induce obesity, but not overt insulin resistance.
It has been recently reported that 62% of hyperglycemic septic children had overt insulin resistance on admission and 17% had β-cell dysfunction [ 48] and that the endotoxin activity was significantly associated with 52% increased risk for incident diabetes [ 49].
