In spite of her overt efforts to indicate otherwise there was something faintly anxious about Skye's demeanor.

He felt like he'd been awake for days and, despite an overt effort to keep his eyes open, he plunged into sleep.

Yet the Jewish community in Berlin is highly visible, in part because of an overt effort on behalf of the city government.

Never before in a U.S. political campaign has the party out of power made such an overt effort to undermine a peace negotiation.

"You can look at all that as artificial," Fassel said of his overt efforts this past year to foster a kinship among his players.

Republicans, who revel in national security debates, hope to gain from the focus on Iraq through osmosis, absorbing the benefits without much overt effort.

Time after time, the overt efforts to propagate the liberal agenda in the media fail miserably.

But China has resisted overt efforts at gathering intelligence about Soviet blasts.

I would challenge that and say, 'Maybe you should make an overt effort to make the rest of your life as full as you can.'

On the grounds that there has been an overt effort by the Klan to intimidate this panel.