Sentence examples for as a smokescreen for from inspiring English sources

They accuse the conservative People's party government of breaking promises made in their election campaign a year ago and of using the crisis as a smokescreen for dismantling public services, creeping privatisation and undermining working rights.

Security concerns in sectors like telecoms may be legitimate, but can also be used as a smokescreen for protectionist impulses.

Industry officials dismissed the report as a smokescreen for what they view as the administration's stingy approach to drilling permits.

But as Russia demonstrated in Ukraine, it is adept as using diplomacy as a smokescreen for war.

In the current climate, it is all too easy to use finance as a smokescreen for doing nothing.

He said some candidates were using the Greens banner as a smokescreen for a socialist political platform.

Regarding the skinwalker narrative, which has garnered particular outrage, she noted that it was particularly troubling to see Rowling make use of a Navajo tradition "as legend, a smokescreen for 'real' magical history, and to divorce this tradition from its specific origins and apply it to all of Native America as a whole".

Both murderers used their knowledge of chemsex – male sex parties, often organised on dating apps, which are fuelled by mephedrone, G and crystal meth – as a pretext and a smokescreen for their gruesome killings.

A new plan to get thousands of soldiers to act as policemen in such cities as Bologna, Trieste and Venice appears to be a smokescreen for the government's real approach to crime: hard on some offences, but soft on others.

Rick Scott's absurd refusal to debate -- and his lies yesterday denying he refused -- are just a smokescreen for his record as governor and CEO that he is desperate to hide.

We justify our righteousness with "honesty," which is often a smokescreen for making other people wrong and/or feeling as though we're superior to them.