Sentence examples for perfect smokescreen for from inspiring English sources

The propaganda of ethnic hatred and "splendid isolation" was a perfect smokescreen for the theft of billions of dollars' worth of state assets and the criminalisation of Serbia's economy.

In a thrilling final scene, he uses his potty-mouthed schtick to trick the giant fish into chomping down on a partially submerged electricity cable, then reveals to his amazed companions that the shark was deliberately imported by evil Mayor Vaughn in order to provide the perfect smokescreen for a coastal drug smuggling operation.

It turned out to be a smokescreen for military preparations.

Or perhaps the "vision" always was a smokescreen for cuts.

Beijing believes that concept is merely a smokescreen for independence.

Manners are sometimes nothing more than a convenient smokescreen for arseholes.

Camp 1: Apple's withdrawal is a smokescreen for Jobs being ill again.

Johnson said the decision was looking like "a smokescreen for a U-turn on Heathrow".

"White phosphorus is a weapon intended to provide a smokescreen for troop movements on the battlefield.

"This is a smokescreen for changing the law to the advantage of defendants".

"They are throwing up a smokescreen for their own inadequacies at enforcing the laws".