Sentence examples for smokescreen without from inspiring English sources

Senior John Wilson described feeling "moral outrage" towards the university and called Safe Zone a "smokescreen without meaning" in a letter to the editor published in the St . Johns Torch in November 2010.

What is happening in Eastern Europe today is, in part, a consequence of the economic liberalization of the region that the United States made foremost after 1989 — even if, at times, it was little more than a smokescreen for a fire sale to Russian oligarchs, without whose role Vladimir Putin's stranglehold on power is unthinkable.

"There's kind of a smokescreen whereby governments are saying 'we can fix this,'" without actually dealing with the root problem," Hughes says.

As the Isis mortars continued to fall, jet fighters soared through the sky, without dropping bombs, seemingly defeated by the haze of a medieval smokescreen.

Real or a smokescreen?

Sorry is a smokescreen.

That's a smokescreen.

A smokescreen, he said.

What a beautiful smokescreen.

"It's a smokescreen.

This is all a smokescreen.