Sentence examples for is a mere smokescreen from inspiring English sources
One says that this is a mere smokescreen of sanctimony meant to hide a retreat from a market Google was unable to conquer for business reasons..
If this is bogus, what else are they trying to tell us and control us around?" To Palin's mind, efforts by government, business leaders, campaigners – and yes, scientists like Nye – to fight climate change were a mere smokescreen for a huge power grab.
He declared that charges that he and other northern humanists were the source of Luther's heresies were a mere smokescreen for the desire of obscurantist theologians and monks to destroy the growth of humanist studies and prevent a genuine reform of the church.
Unemployment is a mere 2.9%.
Now he is a mere caretaker.
"He is a mere boy," he said.
Space is a mere absence of entity.
Jim Trusdale was a mere acquaintance.
In practice, however, many suspect this is a smokescreen: that, given what political poison climate change is in America, its negotiators may be unable to commit to participating in any new regime that the US Congress would have to ratify.India, whose annual emissions per citizen are a mere 1.2 tonnes, has a more righteous concern.
