overt

Example Sentences

• "The buſineſs of Overt-Acts is, where the Compaſſing and Imagining the King's Death is the Crime and Queſtion, and this muſt be diſcover'd by Overt-Acts. But if the Treaſon be falſifying of the King's Money, this is Treaſon, but there can be no Overt-Act of that, for that is an Overt-Act in it ſelf; but there muſt be an Overt-Act to prove the Compaſſing and Imagining the Death of the King, and in no other ſort of Treaſon."
• "[T]he essence of a sale in a market overt is, that the goods should be openly exposed in the ordinary way, and also that the whole transaction should take place there, and at one time. If a man make a contract for certain goods which are not in market overt, and subsequently the goods are delivered, and the property ultimately passes in market overt, that would not be within the privilege of market overt, [...]"
• "Students receive hidden messages from their participation in classroom activites, by attending school and by virtue of the context of school in society. [...] Educators have argued that children should, for example, acquire non-sexist approaches to the learning of values and attitudes in schools and that it is the curriculum's direct responsibility to enhance that learning. Consequently action must be taken in the overt curriculum to overcome the learnings acquired through the hidden curriculum."
• "How do we know that power is operating in certain social relationships? [...] This is not such a problem where there is a clear and overt conflict of interest [...] but what of those situations where there is no such awareness; where domination exists in the absence of overt violence or even conflict?"
• "The resurgence of overt antisemitism has underscored just how limiting the category of race is, said Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal, CEO of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and the Rabbinical Assembly."
• "Arg. an eagle rising wings overt inverted sa. armed or. HILTOFTE, V."