Sentence examples for smokescreen at from inspiring English sources

The public accounts committee attempted to get behind this smokescreen at its inquiry into the Work Programme last week.

Both of these shows, at opposite ends of the recent so-called "golden age" of TV, treat mental illness as a smokescreen at best and a plot device at worst.

Although he may indeed have played a part in the assassination - either willingly or under duress - his involvement, from what is known so far, looks like a deliberate smokescreen aimed at deflecting attention from the real killers.

Indeed, given the worrying nature of reports last November of a crackdown on free speech at the university, some might even see the latest debate as a bit of a smokescreen, aimed at obscuring other, slightly larger matters effecting China right now.

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

You play to your strengths and you try to create diversionary tactics and smokescreens to at least divert from your weaknesses until you can address stuff to the point where they become strengths.

Sullivan believes references to "the terrorist film" in the hackers' demands are a smokescreen for attempts at extortion, though Cluley said some of the imagery used by the hackers recalls the "Dark Seoul" attacks of spring 2013, where systems in South Korea were targeted by the North.

We stare at this smokescreen, while the pope inveighs – with cruel vitriol – against women who choose abortion during the Zika epidemic.

"To use welfare reform as the smokescreen for hacking away at this body was a sign of the minister's dual wedding to both a vicious Tory cuts agenda and a determination to re-politicising housing allocations.

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

I think it's spooky and fascinating- the trials were a real smokescreen to what was happening at the time.