Sentence examples for overt role from inspiring English sources

Adolescence typically marks the point when the spirits begin to take an overt role in the shaman's life, although variations in the age of onset do occur.

President Kibaki, however, stood to lose the most because of his overt role in forestalling the ICC investigation as well as his known alliances with some ICC suspects.

Saudi Arabia has said it will allow countries training anti-Isis rebels to use its bases and has signalled that it may be prepared to play an overt role in attacking the group.

So far, however, French officials have been at pains to say little about the situation and, when pressed, have volunteered only that it is an internal matter for Algerians.Even now, France clearly does not want an overt role.

And the Catholic Church is taking a more overt role in Italian politics than it has done for many years.The speaker of the lower house of the Italian parliament, Pier Ferdinando Casini, this week gave the go-ahead for a parliamentary inquiry into the functioning of the abortion law, after complaints by Francesco Storace, the health minister in Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right government.

Similarly, while many existing student engagement conceptual models have expanded to include factors that influence student engagement, none highlight the overt role of technology in the engagement process (Kahu, 2013; Lam, Wong, Yang, & Yi, 2012; Nora, Barlow, & Crisp, 2005; Wimpenny & Savin-Baden, 2013; Zepke & Leach, 2010).

This result is consistent with the behavioral analysis described above: exon B- and C-containing Fru isoforms play overt roles in courtship and development, and exon A-containing isoforms likely play more subtle roles.

The overt military role in the economy is growing.

The Army has since withdrawn from an overt political role, yet it remains a potent force.

For 25 years, Brazil's biggest political party has made and broken governments, patiently profiting from patronage without ever taking an ideological stance or an overt leadership role.

The loss of the army's seats in parliament, with effect from 2004, will mark its final exclusion from any overt political role.