Mindful of the need to maintain Democratic support for the gulf operation, Mr. Bush drew no overt link between the crisis and domestic political issues.

Clause chaining is the combination of at least two clauses (C and C), without any coordinator, subordinator or any other kind of overt link between them.

But there were no overt weak links either night.

But they make honorable art, with overt links to their own past.

"They just didn't want to clog up the real estate with an overt link," she said.

The company linked itself in its corporate communications with green issues by the overt link of its BP initials with the phrase "Beyond Petroleum".

Many hold separate rituals to honor the saints and orisha respectively, even though the faith's overt links to Catholicism are no longer needed.

Israel refuses to talk to the P.L.O., and so the idea is to come up with a Palestinian delegation free of overt links to the organization.

Whatever the changes Judaism and secular Jewishness undergo in the generations ahead, Jewish identity will continue to have links, overt and hidden, with Yiddish literature.