smokescreen

How To Use smokescreen In A Sentence

• Nevertheless, many environmentalists remain concerned that any talk of restorative grazing is merely an environmental smokescreen that lets ranchers continue to devastate the land.
• Requesting new powers of surveillance is just a smokescreen to hide their failures.
• ‘The spooks and their uniformed agencies are both part of a smokescreen to divert attention from the real culprits,’ he said.
• Toe: I disagree, I think the JDL is a smokescreen. Progressive Bloggers
• White phosphorus is legal if fired as a battlefield smokescreen but it is banned in civilian areas, where its use could constitute a war crime. Times, Sunday Times
• Hague last night insisted that he would not be silenced by accusations of racism, which he said were designed as a smokescreen to hide Labour's problems over asylum.
• It's not even clear the Cheney administration ever had any serious intention of promoting those values except as a smokescreen for the exercise of American power.
• Sieuraj knocked Government's push for the passage of the police reform bills which he described as public relations tactics and a smokescreen.
• We are now left to wonder whether the publicly-advertised trials of GM crops were only a smokescreen to divert attention away from the real, clandestine experiments.
• These are used as a smokescreen to distract us from the real issues.