How To Use Overt In A Sentence

Some were members of Turkey's elite military class known as "pashas," a title of respect harking back to Ottoman military commanders Monday for allegedly planning to blow up mosques in order to trigger a military takeover and overthrow the WN.com - Photown News
When Modin scored from the right circle to make it 3-0, it looked bleak for the Devils, who rallied from one-goal deficits twice before winning Game 2 in overtime. USATODAY.com - Tampa Bay creeps closer to New Jersey with 4-3 win
Second, that the entire Reichstag assented to the declarations made by the speakers on Tuesday that the Emperor had exceeded his constitutional prerogatives in private discussion with foreigners concerning Germany's attitude on controverted questions. New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why?
But Labour's focus on abolishing child poverty is not, as he (deliberately) patronisingly claims, for the "aah" factor. Labourhome
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And maybe she used to be a Democrat (though my experience is that the coverted are always the most rabid). Hilary Rosen: Harriet and her Friend
The former Olympic champion may now have been overtaken, but a debt of gratitude is owed to her by the vibrant new star of her sport. Times, Sunday Times
That still eludes much of the antipoverty lobby. Times, Sunday Times
Korsibar in time had been overthrown, and Prestimion's sorcerers had sliced his usurpation out of the history of the world. KING OF DREAMS
Poverty is something that is contagious and infectious in our community.
The German military party -- which, as everyone knows, holds the reins of policy in Germany entirely -- have, as far as I can see, done all they could to overthrow Kerenski and set up Im Weltkriege. English
HPL lived and died in genteel poverty, and some biographers have suggested that poor diet brought on by poverty may have hastened his death. Someone Is Angry On the Internet
Now the boy's being hauled before the courts for having been part of a plot to overthrow some tinpot dictator in Equatorial Mongolia or some such place.
Is that anger enough to overturn governments and rattle the founding idea of Europe? Times, Sunday Times
The apparently unabating national and household poverty is widely debated.
We had good straight-line speed, but overtaking is so difficult here.
Then, suddenly, the house turned itself into a Richard Curtis film - the one in which all those hard-hearted world leaders listen to a young wee Scots lassie who tells them that, yes, they can make poverty history, now!
Being alone, working overtime everyday in Germany totally rocks!
Even though these involved rich Mexicans, it can happen at any time to extranjeros flaunting their wealth in a povert stricken town in a 3rd world country. San Miguel crime spree?
This is a comparatively extrovert third album from the talented and technically advanced young Scots harper and pianist, now sojourning in Barcelona and soaking up even more musical influences.
In ways often too subtle to be conscious but sometimes overt, I believe, blacks remain devalued in American schools, where, for example, a recent national survey shows that through high school they are still more than twice as likely as white children to receive corporal punishment, be suspended from school, or be labeled mentally retarded. Race and the Schooling of Black Americans
She contends that U.S. officials overreacted, rather than dealing pragmatically with adoption procedures in a country where poverty and a long-running insurgency fueled widespread child abandonment, impaired record-keeping, and hampered official investigative capabilities. Despite Hurdles, Families Pursue Nepal Adoptions
The rocks are asymmetrically folded and overthrust to the west, with chaotic units and abundant evidence for coeval soft-sediment deformation.
Yeah, he's a pop genius, but his cool, affable swagger and clever repartee are the perfect complement to the more extroverted, outgoing personalities of Dahle and Ms. Case.
And when I see how many people are being sucked into gold investments from all those cheesy radio and TV ads (with their overt or sometimes explicit survivalist overtones), I see another bubble being blown that at some sad point will go blooey. Fox Business News, Where Green Arrows Turn Brown Eyes Blue: James Wolcott
At least one car was overturned and others had windows smashed by what locals described as a mini tornado that swept through the area shortly before 1pm.
He must turn rogue and villain; for as the saying is, Necessitas cogit ad turpia, poverty alone makes men thieves, rebels, murderers, traitors, assassins, because of poverty we have sinned, Anatomy of Melancholy
Once Roma were level, that incident acquired ominous overtones retrospectively.
I dunno," said the plaguesome boy, looking at the address covertly. Janice Day at Poketown
Chook! she was crying, and the dogs whined and yelped in eagerness of desire and effort to overtake Big THE RACE FOR NUMBER ONE
Both seek to address poverty in their countries, but within the framework of a free-market economy. Times, Sunday Times
Second, the Employment Tribunal's decision should be read generously and not overturned merely because of infelicitous or inappropriate statements which were looking at the matter in the round, of an inessential nature.
She will probably behave brilliantly if you make the generous overture of inviting her in the first place. Times, Sunday Times
Our first reaction is enthralled delight, but then ominous overtones register.
There is increasing recognition of the complexity of the causes of poverty.
Opera is music, drama, literature, dance, theater and art as a comprehensive integration of art, usually by the Aria, Recitative, ensemble, chorus, Overture, Intermezzo , dances and other components.
I am for _meddling with slavery everywhere_ -- _attacking it by night and by day, in season and out of season_ (no, it can never be out of season) -- in order to _effect its overthrow_. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
Hunger and poverty often compel the poor to overexploit the resources on which their own livelihoods depend.
The statement of the last witness controverted the evidence of the first two.
I was startled at the news that 129 persons were killed last Sunday in the attempt by rebel air force officers to overthrow the government in the capital.
Poverty was recognised as a complex and multidimensional problem.
It completed her expression; it was as a very halo of Yankee saintship crowning the woman who in despite of poverty and every discouragement had always hated, to the very roots of her hair, anything like what she called a "sozzle;" who had always been screwed up and sharp set to hard work. A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life.
Or the complete opposite - you table an awful dummy and partner makes an overtrick. Times, Sunday Times
Vocab from The Varieties of Religious Experience aseity the property by which a being exists of and from itself; usually used in connection to God apodictic Necessarily or demonstrably true; incontrovertible.concatenated To connect or link in a series or chain.decide Of course, I already knew the definition; it's hardly an unusual word. Archive 2005-08-01
Without the rise, the government will not tackle child poverty, it says.
That history was one of poverty and violence, of battered women and abandoned children.
Mumbai is a mixture of great wealth and extreme poverty, delightful colonial buildings alongside shanty huts. Times, Sunday Times
Equality in poverty might mean civil population contentment whereas glaring inequalities sow the seeds of a class struggle or revolution.
I accelerated to overtake the bus.
Yet breaking the endless cycle of global poverty that powers these wars is achievable, Mr Annan says.
But for all its glories, Victorian was also a time of grinding hard work, belching mill chimneys and the sort of poverty scarcely imaginable today.
He says that we are overtaxed compared to Australia.
For decades Kalahandi has been synonymous with droughts, famines, starvation and poverty.
-- The scientific remedies for poverty and pauperism, that is, the scientific methods of dealing with the various dependent classes and of preventing their existence, now form the subject-matter of a great independent science, the science of philanthropy, which, as we have already seen, may be considered a branch of applied sociology. Sociology and Modern Social Problems
A Shandean fate overtook his body, which was taken by grave-robbers, recognized at an anatomy lecture in Cambridge, and secretly returned to its grave.
covert actions by the CIA
All attempts by the Socialists to woo him back were spurned. Similar overtures from the right have likewise been rejected.
Sources expect there is little chance of agreement between the two sides on the vexed issue of overtime, expected to hit 64 million this year.
Mr McDowell insisted that he would continue to rein in the overtime budget, which is expected to reach 64 million this year.
I didn't see any Western country with so many elements of social morbidity: poverty, beggary and starvation.
It was the first ecumenical meeting on poverty that helped to lay down the groundwork for future church coalitions.
They overturned the verdict because of its lightness.
Coming out of the final bend, the runner stepped up a gear to overtake the rest of the pack.
Pierre sat bold upright so quickly that he bonked his head on the floor of the overturned boat.
Now seeing in the last section, those we call mathematics are absolved of the crime of breeding controversy; and they that pretend not to learning cannot be accused; the fault lieth altogether in the dogmatics, that is to say, those that are imperfectly learned, and with passion press to have their opinions pass everywhere for truth, without any evident demonstration either from experience, or from places of Scripture of uncontroverted interpretation. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
135 There is a grey area between ornament and decoration where one or other strives to compensate for poverty of form.
Your poverty of ambition is breathtaking. Times, Sunday Times
This, he said, had helped ease the poverty levels and called on the Church fraternity to emulate the Catholics' gesture.
They believed the only reason development was not working was the lack of professional input: if we provided this, poverty would magically vanish.
Peace, prosperity, democracy, environmental conservation and the elimination of racism and ethnocentrism are all overtly gender-neutral ideals, but each of them is also a distinctively women's issue.
The spacewalker represents an aspirational triumph over vicissitude and poverty. Times, Sunday Times
The soundtrack went quadruple platinum, all this with little overt publicity and no known stars. Times, Sunday Times
I get a kick out of overtipping people who usually don't get any tip at all, like the girl at the ice-cream counter.
He studies the Forest for a time longer, until the sun begins to rise above the deadland and fields to his left, but the silent presence and lack of overt threat does not change. The Magi'i Of Cyador
And it is the treachery of his appetite which inveigles him into the mischief, which cheats, and abuses, and by deceitful overtures trapans him into a perpetual calamity. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
This work connected the introverted poet with a new and surprisingly outer-directed passion that would affect many lives.
The charity aims to relieve poverty and distress caused by natural disasters.
Mr. Smith says that for the future he will give up what he calls sarcasm, and confine himself, "as far as possible," to what he calls dry reasoning from incontrovertible premises. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
Such overt aggression turned the Labour Party away from pacifism and towards the acceptance of a degree of force to implement collective security.
That's just an incontrovertible fact. Times, Sunday Times
Nor does the expression "overthrew" necessarily point to an earthquake. Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
But the conviction was overturned on a technicality.
It would be absurd to blame Aristotle for his conceptual poverty: poverty is a lack, not a failing.
The claimants sought to recover overtime pay in respect of the time they spent dealing with informants outside their normal hours. Times, Sunday Times
In a secret alliance with the Guild of Commerce, the two powers overthrew the other Guilds and left the refugees to scatter across the continent.
In 1991 almost 36 million Americans were living below the poverty line.
The treasury mandarins and their minions are working overtime.
It's a serious argument over whether to increase spending on public services or to lift people out of poverty.
The Sedimentary Subalpine Zone ecoregion is found southeast of Yellowstone National Park, in the overthrust belt, and in the northwest corner of the Bighorn Mountains in areas underlain by faulted and folded Mesozoic and Paleozoic sedimentary rocks (limestone, dolomite, shale, and sandstone). Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
Instead, all the clifty defiles of the ranges were filled with the roar of flames and the crackling of burning timbers as town after town was given to the firebrand, and the homeless, helpless Cherokees frantically fleeing to the densest coverts of the wilderness, -- that powerful truculent tribe! The Frontiersmen
Studies done in the UK of children from two to 11 years show that high early achievers from disadvantaged backgrounds are overtaken between age five and 10 by low early achievers from advantaged backgrounds.
In the newer radio drama, classical and real-world references are less overt but underpin the edifice. Times, Sunday Times
We have a poverty of soul today, of interior feelings.
Sloth is the key of [to] poverty.
This situation can only be overturned if power is instituted from below.
If properly timed, these throws can quickly get a ball to a baseman to make a play; if it isn't, however, the ball will most likely be overthrown, missing cutoff men entirely along with its target.
The necessary precondition for a functioning democracy is not just minimal outright poverty, but a reasonable degree of similarity between the life and life prospects of the citizens.
Doncaster regained third place in the league overtaking Sheffield Collegiate who did not have a league game.
I don't know where that came from either, if it's age, or some kind of introvert growth on my spine or something. Tweets for Today
But the various cities and counties have continued to plead poverty in the hope of receiving aid from central government.
As a wealthy businessman, he couldn't even begin to imagine real poverty.
Ed Overton -- who is a Ph. D, a professor emeritus at LSU, and who unlike yours truly is a scientist (in analytical environmental chemistry) -- spoke to us the next day and told us that the kind of dispersant used was not only not poisonous, but also that the amount, though it sounded immense, was minuscule, given the volume of water in the Gulf of Mexico. Rachel Ben-Avi: Dinner at Tara
Poverty is an abnormality to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Our natural instinct is to analyze that as a homologous variation — Joplin must have got it from somewhere, perhaps the cavatina-cabaletta sequence of Italian opera, or perhaps Rossini overtures, or perhaps similarly obsessive passages in Chopin or Schumann. Categorical denials
A life of poverty, tradition and religious dread suffuses songs steeped in misery and learnt by word of mouth.
One of my commenters below has sent this picture, incontrovertible evidence that it wasn't a goal, after all.
The only apparent purpose of these bollards is to prevent vehicles overtaking.
Such overt aggression turned the Labour Party away from pacifism and towards the acceptance of a degree of force to implement collective security.
In the United Kingdom they face the effects of poverty, dependence, and lack of cohesive social support.
With Miami ahead by four and less than two minutes remaining in overtime, Evans knocked the ball loose from one Miami ball-handler, went and stole the ball from the Miami player who collected the loose ball and then jetted downcourt for a transition lay-up. Miami 70, Virginia 68: Three up, three down
Terrorists have been operating covertly in England for several years.
President-elect Barack Obama said Friday he wanted legislation in Congress to permit federal funding on stem cell research and overturn a ban imposed by President George W. Bush.
Mr. Husain articulates a clear, unambivalent and positive assessment of the likely effects of globalization and liberalization on poverty.
Some of those children will find their way out of a cycle of poverty, poor education and chronic unemployment and eventually make satisfying lives and careers.
Who would bet against Penrith not overtaking Aspatria next season as Cumbria's Number Two club?
For example, they were only given 100,000 dong for working on Chinese New Year and 50,000 dong for overtime worked in December.
This raises the question of when one will overtake the other. Times, Sunday Times
To suggest - as some critics have - that the memoir owes its power to "Proustian" overtones is ridiculous. Books, Inq. — The Epilogue
Politicians are cut off from the reality of poverty.
Often conference goers are anxious to get early places in the meal queue, but although we had gone overtime for lunch, Nigel captivated the room.
The welfare state never came close to eliminating poverty.
No one doubts, however, that it does maintain covert agents and does use monetary pay-offs to gain influence in the country.
The classic Newtonian view of gravity as a simple force between objects was overthrown by Einstein's vision of gravity as the result of objects warping space and time.
As soon as Lincoln revealed his poverty, Speed invited him to be his bedmate.
Nothing short of substantive and meaningful improvement in the material well being of ordinary South Africans will overturn this tide of distrust and scepticism.
In flight, black axillaries contrast with white under-wing coverts.
It seemed that we had a mountain to climb to overturn a 10-0 deficit. Times, Sunday Times
Many of the key assumptions used as the basis for safety claims have been overturned.
At a running time of around four minutes, the overture is segmented into four themes.
There is immoral, unethical and illegal prosperity on the one side and poverty-stricken people who are moral and ethical on the other.
These structural changes were aggravated by the expulsion of large peasant masses, which increased poverty and unemployment in big cities.
For families in the poverty trap this was a year of suffering with increased rentals driving families to share houses in overcrowded conditions and stress making more families dysfunctional.
There was a mass migration of poverty-struck farmers into the cities.
His teachers perceived him as shy and introverted.
They give a fine account of the Overture in C minor which has some delightful work for bassoon.
Unless looks deceive so convincingly, he does not look indigent and like someone in state of abject poverty; more like a man in full control of his bearing, faculties and appearance.
The court ruled that the DNR, which oversees the lower portion of the federally protected riverway, had no authority to overturn the city of Lakeland's approval of the project. News
The poverty-stricken viceroyalty of Sardinia contributed little, Sicily somewhat more; most of the burden fell on Naples.
The most cherishable of Jay's recordings are two-disc sets which permit inclusion of virtually every bit of the show's score, as well as snippets of dialogue, overtures, entr'actes, incidental music, and underscoring.
Villa Kennan, with a pang of disappointment at such rebuff, forwent her overtures for the moment, and listened to what tale Jacob Henderson could tell of his dog. CHAPTER XXXIV
It blasts away for openers - not for the first time - with the overture from Rossini's otherwise neglected opera The Thieving Magpie.
They want the Supreme Court to overturn the decision and have submitted a petition for a writ of certiorari.
Military conquest and colonial-style occupation is only the most overt form of imperialist domination.
Poverty and love are hard to hide.
When her snooty daughter visits, she is embarrassed by her relative poverty.
He thought they could be beaten-that their virtual monopoly of the running shoe market could be overthrown.
The organization's cultural activities took on political overtones.
The title nags at me the same way Google does – moral and righteous overtones applied to a company that seems to me to be remarkably amoral I’m not not saying immoral. WWJeffD? « BuzzMachine
She was believed to have died in near poverty on the French Riviera.
The accident happened as Fogarty tried to overtake Robert Ulm on a bend during the fifth lap.
Bad as the austerity cuts may feel here, life over there is truly harsh: poverty means something entirely different. Times, Sunday Times
Studies have shown that people who overtrain have lowered immunity and are more susceptible to colds. Times, Sunday Times
A male Cancer-Pisces, fearing that his sensitivity is a form of weakness, may try to assume an aggressive persona, hoping to conceal his feelings with an overt display of toughness or machismo.
Their goal of restoring the power of the Church hid their aim of overthrowing the republic.
His handjar is a mighty blade, and held high in the hands of a man of his stature, it overtowered everything in the church. The Lady of the Shroud
Overtreatment of multiple hormonal imbalances can cause central obesity and atherogenic and metabolic abnormalities.
The overturning of card tables or the snapping in two of billiard cues are signs that the loser has a very low self-esteem. Why Am I Afraid to be Assertive?
Less than a year before the convention, it is hard not to find political overtones in virtually everything the president says and does.
It's just going to get worse unless we tackle poverty. The Sun
And the issue is this -- starting from the contemptuous defiance of the scriptural doctrine upon the necessity of making provision for poverty as an indispensable element in civil communities, the economy of the age has lowered its tone by graduated descents, in each one successively of the four last _decennia_. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
Tom was particularly captivated by the children of the parish, who seemed so joyful despite their poverty and despite the war.
Religion is often made the covert of crime.
Mind you, when it came to the US captain's decision to complete his fourball line-up with the rookie pairing of Bubba Watson and Jeff Overton, the Europe captain dispensed any need for interpretation. Ryder Cup 2010: Colin Montgomerie uses dark arts to steel European team
Betas can come in many forms—from competent wingmen to extreme introverts who are so determined to avoid conflict they suffer anxiety of their own. Are Alpha Males Healthy?
It hit a kerb and lamp post before careering back across Meggeson Avenue, crashing into the parked cars and overturning.
One trusts that there will be no unpaid overtime. Times, Sunday Times
Such injury can occur due to overtraining and excessive resistance or use of improper form in performing the exercise.
After days of stories of poverty - and seeing a fair amount of it - the starched white tablecloths and formal service were surreal. The Sun
Umpteen mistakes were made, overthrows, byes, no-balls, bad shots, all of them a reminder that cricket is a game of the spirit.
This is the only humane approach to those fleeing violence, poverty and oppression.
While leaders in Beijing remain vigilant against Japanese "rearmament," their rhetoric is part of an orchestrated strategy to overtake Japan as the region's pre-eminent power. Smoke Alarm
But as he lay and devoured the new 'white breid,' his satisfaction -- the bare delight of his animal existence -- reached a pitch such as even this imagination, stinted with poverty, and frost-bitten with maternal oppression, had never conceived possible. Robert Falconer
Yes, it was a brief analysis of the award provisions, finding that there was explicit in the award ordinary hours for casuals and overtime hours.
Moldovan official told Russia Today television that anti-Communist demonstrators want to overthrow the government and reunite the nation with neighboring Romania.
Though such an important chief, he is the meanest dressed of his subjects, — is always filthy, — ever greasy — eternally foul about the mouth; but these are mere eccentricities: as a wise judge, he is without parallel, always has a dodge ever ready for the abstraction of cloth from the spiritless Arab merchants, who trade with Unyanyembe every year; and disposes with ease of a judicial case which would overtask ordinary men. How I Found Livingstone
On the other hand, each member must let the group know when his elements are getting overtasked.
He died in comparative poverty, but was buried in Westminster Abbey, where Lady Anne Clifford, countess of Dorset, paid for his handsome monument.
I especially liked Hans Brauer (Darby on Sons of Anarchy) as the supposedly hard-assed covert agent who folded like a little kid once he discovered This is Not a Game. Checkmate : Bev Vincent
If your poverty of expression compel you to make any distinction between the two, we would certainly recommend your bestowing more admiration on his garden than his wine. Sketches by Boz
He had been imprisoned after being reprieved from a death sentence handed down by General Victoriano Huerta, the usurper who would overthrow Francisco Madero in February 1913. Pancho Villa as a German Agent...
Infant mortality is frequently assumed to be an especially sensitive indicator of severe poverty.
20% of the population now live below the poverty line .
That is because poverty degrades individuals and robs them of dignity and worth.
But super-power trappings offer only a flimsy mask for the realities of poverty and are no substitute for grassroots economic development.
The sixteenth variation - a famous tour-de-force - is a ‘French overture’ - that is, a grand introduction of slow dotted rhythms, followed by a fugal allegro.
Inequality and poverty breed class conflict.
In the company's travel and tourism division, for instance, this has resulted in employees accumulating an overtime backlog of more than 100 hours.
The great singer ended his days in poverty.
The biotech companies and their tame scientists are using other people's poverty to engineer their own enrichment.
Students were fighting and overturning desks and the teacher was shouting, ‘they're animals.’
My purpose is to show that poverty and misfortune make no invidious distinctions of “race, color, or previous condition,” but that wealth unduly centralized oppresses all alike; therefore, that the labor elements of the whole United States should sympathize with the same elements in the South, and in some favorable contingency effect some unity of organization and action, which shall subserve the common interest of the common class. Black and White
The poverty trap would become a demographic trap.
He was overtaken on the final lap.
There, non-governmental groups are proliferating as poverty increases and trade liberalisation undermines local economies.
Suddenly the wind hit, overtaking the chalet, shaking the wooden balcony out front, and swirling inside, filling the room.
Certainly poverty, as in dying of starvation, is bad. A Bad Day, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Without missing a beat, the taller man handed Dickie a beer (apparently it was not too early to drink), and began challenging his opponent to distinguish between the genuine ascetic and what he termed the conspicuously nonconsuming -poverty snob. Villa Incognito
At Andover the River Anton has overtopped its banks and there are scores of roads across the south blocked by flooding.
A key provision in the Act criminalized knowing membership in an organization that advocated the forcible overthrow of the government, and imposed a penalty of up to twenty years of imprisonment.
The money is divided among departments such as Welfare, Water Affairs and Public Works, which are involved in job creation programmes and poverty relief.

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