Sentence examples for it a smokescreen from inspiring English sources
Responding to Mr. Romney's call to release the full dossier from the investigation, which resulted in a $300,000 fine, he called it a smokescreen to divert attention from Mr. Romney's refusal to release his tax returns before the primary on Saturday.
Some called it a smokescreen, but the truth is that the supposed tension between women's rights and multiculturalism has dominated Quebec political discourse since 2013, when the Parti Québécois proposed a charter of values that would limit the wearing of religious symbols by state personnel.
It is not a credible alternative, it is a smokescreen," she said.
Jahn, the current commissioner, also used his interview in Tagesspiegel to dismisses comparisons between the US National Security Agency and the Stasi: "I find it absurd to equate the NSA and the Stasi – it's a smokescreen.
While preserving this diversity, Mr Taib has also mastered and exploited ethnic divisions to build his political base, a process greased by cash at election time to persuade people to vote the right way.But for all the chief minister's insistence on Sarawak's exceptionalism, legions of critics argue that it was a smokescreen for his administration and its friends to exploit the country.
In recent years, Rwanda has also been involved in a heavy PR campaign to wipe away its blood-crusted image but critics fear it's a smokescreen to mute Kagame's opposition.
It's a smokescreen to distort where the substance of its economic activity is really taking place".
It's a smokescreen, a bit of spin.
It's a smokescreen for a drug policy that has consistently failed over a 50-year period.
He jumped up and grabbed a mannequin wearing a half-completed Art Deco-inspired gold lamé dress with black tulle layered on it like a smokescreen.
