Sentence examples for 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..
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... The other is that this is a true act of moral bravery". White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Google had briefed the Obama administration before its China announcement.
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.
I now recognize my children's sweet smiles and contagious giggles for what they really are -- mere smokescreens hiding a deep-seated despair.
Beijing believes that concept is merely a smokescreen for independence.
By bringing these policy considerations of Member States to the forefront of the judicial reasoning process, the margin of appreciation that is eventually accorded to Member States can be explicitly justified, beyond a mere recitation of the concept as a smokescreen for actual legal reasoning.
Among its small-scale ingenuities is its revelation of acting as an intimate smokescreen, a scrim of personality that contrasts poignantly with mere personhood.
