Sentence examples for much smokescreen from inspiring English sources

Those two last-wicket stands of 163 and 65 at Trent Bridge may have been as much smokescreen as fight-back.

Much the same smokescreen turns out to have hung over one of Brown's colleagues in the Wilson cabinet, now a decade dead, whose biography apparently remains unwritten owing to the difficulty the biographer first commissioned to write it had in dealing with all the sexual irregularity.

There really isn't much they can throw up as a smokescreen any more".

And yet, so much of the rhetoric surrounding apprenticeships is a smokescreen.

In fact, Mr Johnson's real beliefs, often concealed behind a smokescreen of jokes, are not so much blandly centrist as nicely balanced between swashbuckling extremes.

Similar arguments made during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, when currencies and stock markets collapsed in much of Southeast Asia, turned out to be a smokescreen to protect the executives who were partly responsible for the mess.

Donziger told VICE News he believes that "efforts by [Chevron's lawyers] to suppress these stunning tapes is part of a much larger litigation strategy designed to create a smokescreen around the company's criminal acts in Ecuador with the goal of distracting shareholders, the financial markets, regulators, and ultimately courts from learning the truth".

Like much else in the budget dispute, this is a smokescreen.

I think all this "redistribution" talk is, fundamentally, a smokescreen to keep conservatives from seeing how much they have in common with Obama's worldview.

This weekend's European Indoor Trials in Sheffield will probably not tell him too much but Dwain Chambers should at least give him a smokescreen to hide behind for a few weeks while he gets settled in and, if the European championships bring the good haul of medals that they should, he can always claim it was all down to his impact.

I suspect that the complaint "it takes too much time for you to interview these people" is at least partly a smokescreen.