It's a smokescreen to distort where the substance of its economic activity is really taking place".
The sovereign-CDS debate is a smokescreen to obscure an unpalatable truth.
It acted as a complete smokescreen to my agnosticism, so I got away with it".
Some use the issue as a smokescreen to avoid having to confront gun control.
It burns on contact with oxygen and creates a smokescreen to mask the military manoeuvre.
The bill has become a smokescreen to cover what is happening right now.
But it seems that this new policy may in fact be a smokescreen to increase profits.
The email was a smokescreen to justify getting rid of him, Drew said.
However the decision has been labelled a "smokescreen" to reopen old-growth forests to logging, despite loggers not wanting it.
At one point, Isis set fire to buildings in order to create a smokescreen to protect them from US aircraft.
Oil industry officials called the paper a smokescreen to cover the administration's stingy approach to drilling permits.
