Sentence examples for smoke argument from inspiring English sources

As for the much touted second-hand smoke argument, is it really relevant in this case?

But he always needed to set Brazil to rights over copious cachaças at some café table: his own "Symposium", where ideals would be pursued through smoke, alcohol and argument.

After you clear away the smoke from those arguments about our modern mobile gadgets, is the Gesture actually any more flexible than its rivals?

"The criticism that 529 plans only help affluent families is a smoke-and-mirrors argument made by those looking for an excuse to further the government's role in controlling higher education policy".

At the end of the discussion, we probed for additional reasons and arguments to smoke or to quit smoking.

But Assemblyman Joe Pennacchio of Morris Plains, the ranking Republican on the Assembly Appropriations Committee, called the argument a "smoke screen".

This is Baker's answer to the storm of opprobrium he endured after publishing his last nonfiction volume, "Human Smoke," a book-length argument that the United States was wrong to get involved militarily in World War II, and that we, along with the other Allies, only increased the overall number of dead by refusing to support a "dignified peace" with Germany.

Mr. Kennard has called the opposition's arguments a smoke screen designed to shield the broadcasters from competition.

The idea that a technology involving 140-character messages could become a serious medium for conversation seems as absurd as the notion that one could have philosophical arguments using smoke signals.

But AOL's competitors see the spamming and security argument as a smoke screen.

Or is he using an aporetic argument only to smoke out his opponents, as Unitarians think?