I thought it was an overt attempt to get a seat in the balcony.

Bleeding Through believes that the reissue is a "fast and overt attempt to pay some bills."

To the Mets, it appeared to be an overt attempt to intimidate them.

Indeed, too overt an attempt to so could well be counterproductive and lay them open to the charge of meddling.

Weeks would go by without her making any overt attempts at communication.

Even the people he'd gone after in Afghanistan hadn't made any overt attempts to kill women and kids, at least that he knew about.

He had made no overt attempt to pry into affairs at the zoo.

This new building is an overt attempt to change all that, and to make Bridgeport appear as something other than a grimy industrial city.

Conventional wisdom holds that overt attempts to put pressure on central bankers simply push them in the opposite direction.

The band refused any overt attempts to rouse the crowd - "Is everyone having a reasonable time?"