Sentence examples similar to is only a smokescreen from inspiring English sources

"But I know you were only a smokescreen.

Defenders of the talks argue that much of the posturing over the past few days may be only a smokescreen, a "face-saving way back" to the table, in the words of Robert Danin, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and consultant to the Quartet process.

Beijing believes that concept is merely a smokescreen for independence.

Human rights activists say that the Iran charge is simply a smokescreen.

We see two obvious explanations of the fact that these conservative Christians support him in large numbers: 1) they have abandoned their once-noble principles, or 2) those principles were only ever a smokescreen behind which operated racism, classism, xenophobia, and other forms of prejudice.

Israel is the only gay-friendly country in the Middle East, but for Ms. Schulman that's just a smokescreen for "co-opting" people into a pro-Israel stance.

The only minor parties to have any sway in Parliament will be those from Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.Perhaps the supposed rise of pluralism was simply a smokescreen for the continuing breakup of the United Kingdom.

That's just a smokescreen.

Iran maintains that its desire to enrich uranium is only for peaceful civilian purposes, but Western powers accuse it of using that as a smokescreen to develop nuclear weapons.

But what they were saying was a smokescreen, something to tell the rubes.

It initially issued a categorical denial of reports of the use of white phosphorous, but later admitted it, saying the weapon was only used to create smokescreens.