How To Use Smokescreen In A Sentence
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Nevertheless, many environmentalists remain concerned that any talk of restorative grazing is merely an environmental smokescreen that lets ranchers continue to devastate the land.
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Requesting new powers of surveillance is just a smokescreen to hide their failures.
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‘The spooks and their uniformed agencies are both part of a smokescreen to divert attention from the real culprits,’ he said.
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Toe: I disagree, I think the JDL is a smokescreen.
Progressive Bloggers
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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
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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.
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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.
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Sieuraj knocked Government's push for the passage of the police reform bills which he described as public relations tactics and a smokescreen.
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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.
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These are used as a smokescreen to distract us from the real issues.
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Some of the crackers that we light every year, have a lot in common with flares and smokescreens.
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I do find, because I work alongside lots of other artists and producers, that pretense could be a smokescreen for insecurity.
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Yes my friends, Plaid is outwardly a mainstream political party, but behind the smokescreen of respectability we are a fascist organization bent on conquering England (and indeed Europe; not sure about Essex though) with the goal of ridding the earth of Jews and Slavs in order to make room for the glorious master race: the dreaded crachach (Don Touhig was right).
Archive 2009-09-01
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Desultory firing continued for two days amid fog, smokescreens, and increasing confusion, before the operation was eventually abandoned.
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More likely, it's another smokescreen designed to increase the public's general paranoia and portray the Department of Homeland Security as anything but incompetent.
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We use them [white phosphorus munitions] primarily as obscurants, for smokescreens or target marking in some cases.
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First, the film ‘Smokescreen’ by ‘Unknown’ featuring a man walking into a series of smoke-filled rooms — we never see his face as it is either obscured by smoke, or he is filmed from the side or behind.
Ballardian » Escaping the gaze: A review of John Foxx's Tiny Colour Movies
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The effect is to blow away the smokescreen that Big Tobacco created to conceal its darker nature.
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And so, taking their smokescreens with them, these gods went in to change, and we hared to claim our place-bagging picnic bags left on the Warwick Road grass.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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Behind a smokescreen of good intentions, the project continues.
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Desultory firing continued for two days amid fog, smokescreens, and increasing confusion, before the operation was eventually abandoned.
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Instead of doing something about the problem, the council is hiding behind a smokescreen of bureaucracy.
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What the transition from pounds and pence to euros and cents does is to provide a convenient smokescreen for a hike in prices.
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According to the site, the old adage ‘Men are from Mars, women are from Venus’ is merely a smokescreen - felines are the real Martians.
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Percentage fees have provided the smokescreen.
Times, Sunday Times
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I respond by cutting through the smokescreen and getting to the real facts, which they are hiding from you.
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All of it in the end is an elaborate smokescreen to prevent us seeing the real issue: which is not a matter of trust but of judgment.
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We're kind of dippy and strange, we wear funny clothes at least a few times a year, we insist on lecturing you about how St. Patrick actually murdered Druids and the whole "snake" thing is a smokescreen while you're trying to chug your third mug of green beer in peace.
By Popular Request--Why Not Moose?
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Gardai claim that a proposed marriage between a Corkman and a Romanian girl charged in a credit card scam is only a smokescreen to obtain a residency permit.
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They thought that it was a smokescreen to disguise the movement forwards of German troops.
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Not playing bilateral cricket is a smokescreen used to evade the real issues.
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A tank, guns blazing, fills the downtown of Jenin with a diesel smokescreen to enforce a curfew order.
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I make these points not to defend the media, which can hardly be criticized enough for their own health, but to raise yet again the question of why the Clintons from beginning to end chose the inchmeal tactics of trench warfare to defend themselves when they came under fire, throwing up a smokescreen of fibs and disclosing as little as possible.
In Clinton's Court
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Morning Fizzy, you have raised a good point about how this ordinance is a smokescreen for the City of Seattle's neglect of a much bigger problem -- the massive scale on which Seattle residents have been ripped off by excesses of the financial industry.
Mayor’s Ally, Mike O’Brien, Goes His Own Way on 520 and Aggressive Panhandling « PubliCola
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The row is turning into a farce - and a convenient smokescreen for the Government at a time of economic meltdown.
The Sun
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There's no attempt to cloud its intentions behind a smokescreen of law enforcement or national security - although the Secure PC is an advance on current standards.
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In all of this Supreme Court daydreaming, is any rightwinger going to say outright, “Everything we said about “judicial activism” was pure smokescreen”?
Matthew Yglesias » Constitutional Objections to Health Reform
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If he'd done all this WITHOUT the affair he'd have already been given the axe ... the affair is a smokescreen that the reps and Sanford are using for sympathy.
SC Lt. Gov. to ask for Sanford's resignation
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This latest group is merely a rebranding (or further classification) of people devoted to the sole purpose of defeating that guy who rightfully won a Democratic presidential election; a loose confederacy of street level strategists who are experts in the fields of clotheslining, kneecapping, smokescreening and all-out denying (also earning the honorary suffixation "ingers").
Steven Weber: To Er Is Human
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Why did he have to be manipulated to admit what he genuinely believed, regardless of the political smokescreens.
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Many people in York suspect the vagueness the company expresses about its intentions could be a smokescreen.
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Like fascists everywhere, Hitler saw corporatism, sometimes dismissed by contemporary scholars as a smokescreen for the untrammelled power of big business, as one of the keys to social peace.
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But conservationists see this as a smokescreen, saying that no other wildlife are targeted in this way.
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Wing Commander Frank Brock, a director of the company, used his background and passion for explosives and incendiaries to develop a smokescreen to conceal battleships at sea.
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He was accused of putting up a smokescreen to hide poor standards in schools.
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Jimmy reckons that the Charlie denials are a smokescreen - distracting from the actual real rumour.
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Requesting new powers of surveillance is just a smokescreen to hide their failures.
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I'm not prepared to go back on that and provide a smokescreen.
The Sun
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Many on the left see moral arguments as a smokescreen over the real conflict - the struggle over who gets what.
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requesting new powers of surveillance is just a smokescreen to hide their failures
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Labour's sole aim was to provide a smokescreen for its Unite scandal.
The Sun
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Kalyan said in a statement that the minister's statement had been a ‘smokescreen aimed at detracting government's feeble track record to date in handling the epidemic’.
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That was a typically self-effacing smokescreen.
Times, Sunday Times
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Labour's sole aim was to provide a smokescreen for its Unite scandal.
The Sun
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The row is turning into a farce - and a convenient smokescreen for the Government at a time of economic meltdown.
The Sun
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The issue of safety is a smokescreen from a union leadership stuck in the steam age.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead of doing something about the problem, the council is hiding behind a smokescreen of bureaucracy.
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It's just hard to sort out the real issues from the smokescreens as the rhetoric heats up this election year.
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Percentage fees have provided the smokescreen.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's all a smokescreen, a diversionary tactic to take the focus off of certain questions those who failed this country that day don't want aired.
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This business of Iran being characterized as the bogeyman is all a smokescreen people!
U.S. military plans against Iran being updated
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I'm not prepared to go back on that and provide a smokescreen.
The Sun
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Behind the media smokescreens are people whose involvement has been documented and exposed, but there is always some African fall guy-the 'embraceable' black subordinate or 'rebel' commander-charged with war crimes and used to deflect attention from the leaders of organized white-collar crime networks.
Dissident Voice
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Why don't you spend your valuable time actually answering Blair's accusation, or is this a nice little smokescreen to disguise the fact that you haven't got a leg to stand on?
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So I write here today once again, simply trying to be a "foghorn" in the midst of the religious smokescreens that are thrown up daily by the modern day "ministers" of God.
SOUL REFUGE
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Jargon is used to put up a smokescreen, hiding principles which are well within the grasp of the average citizen.
