"overtly opposed" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe an attitude or behavior that is clearly and openly against something or someone. For example, "Many people were overtly opposed to the proposed tax increase."
GP1 Some GPs were more overtly opposed to seeing patients with dental problems.
In the seminal WHO studies carried out over 30 years ago to evaluate integration of mental health into PHC in seven LMICs, the findings were much the same: although not overtly opposed to the idea of expanding PHC to include mental health care, the PHC workers expected this to be carried out by mental health workers rather than becoming part of their work [ 22].
Don't think you can't be friends with a theist, a belief/lack of belief is a minor aspect of a person so long as neither of you are overtly opposed.
And part of its legacy was that it eventually established in the United States a popular repugnance among many against those who overtly oppose legal equality for African Americans and indeed against anyone who peddles hate and discrimination against whole groups of people.
This, in addition to MoH engagement and the scientific evidence probably explain the President's change in position from the overtly opposing to a non-supportive position.
Bubble is right, of course, but she's also, rather sweetly, missing the point: the key words in her tweet are "the more overt equivalent" and this is precisely what grosses out some magazine editors, that bloggers are exposing the system overtly as opposed to keeping it (vaguely) hidden.
From the actors' view, these were the bottlenecks where "local governments did not comply with the central government they agreed overtly but opposed in secret" (field interview, Sep. 25, 2005).
He was a genius, but he also made "adult" games: that is to say they weren't overtly childlike, as opposed to actually being mature.
Try to keep the look fresh as opposed to overtly made up.
I'd been thinking in terms of opposing (overtly or covertly) racist arguments; I hadn't thought enough about noticing these instances of passive racism and pointing to them and saying "LOOK WHAT YOU DID" and refusing to let it be swept away.
In 2001, for example, when a Jamaican government panel recommended decriminalization of possession of marijuana within its own borders not legalization of sales, just eliminating arrests for personal possession the US embassy told media it was opposed to the policy and overtly threatened that if it went forward, the country might be decertified.
