1.   But in reality, overt threats were not necessary.

2.   He has resumed his overt threats against Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

3.   He gets dead beats to cough up without overt threats, without breaking legs, without harassment.

4.   The difficulty is that the defendants never issued overt threats against the doctors.

5.   The two sides debated whether overt threats were required to prove intimidation of a witness, the Democrats saying yes and the Republicans no.

6.   Thaksin is not known to face any overt threats to his life.

7.   But Zhu said Friday the absence of an overt threat to use force was a mere coincidence.