| Jargon is used to put up a smokescreen, hiding principles which are well within the grasp of the average citizen. |
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| Not playing bilateral cricket is a smokescreen used to evade the real issues. |
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| Sieuraj knocked Government's push for the passage of the police reform bills which he described as public relations tactics and a smokescreen. |
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| A tank, guns blazing, fills the downtown of Jenin with a diesel smokescreen to enforce a curfew order. |
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| Happily, the spy flick trappings are a mere smokescreen for the film's clever satire of Middle American society and Cold War paranoia. |
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| I respond by cutting through the smokescreen and getting to the real facts, which they are hiding from you. |
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| Massive write downs under the smokescreen of a new CEO will only demonstrate the old guard's failings and bring their tenure into question. |
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| What the transition from pounds and pence to euros and cents does is to provide a convenient smokescreen for a hike in prices. |
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| It's all a smokescreen, a diversionary tactic to take the focus off of certain questions those who failed this country that day don't want aired. |
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| I do find, because I work alongside lots of other artists and producers, that pretense could be a smokescreen for insecurity. |
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| They thought that it was a smokescreen to disguise the movement forwards of German troops. |
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| Many people in York suspect the vagueness the company expresses about its intentions could be a smokescreen. |
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| But conservationists see this as a smokescreen, saying that no other wildlife are targeted in this way. |
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| It's another smokescreen to cover earlier learned assurances that the Australians were a bunch of pie eaters. |
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| The effect is to blow away the smokescreen that Big Tobacco created to conceal its darker nature. |
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| But to suggest that this group became the expert panel that the Prime Minister had indicated is just a smokescreen. |
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| The Charter cannot serve as a smokescreen for the French Presidency in order to conceal an IGC that is on its last legs. |
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| First of all, the Fifteen signed the agreement on the sly and under the smokescreen created by the Charter of Fundamental Rights. |
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| He says he would not abandon Iraq, but talks of pulling troops out which looks like a muddle or a smokescreen for retreat. |
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| A smokescreen of market confidence has been cast to cover up certain real problems. |
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| What this government is doing is putting up smokescreen after smokescreen after smokescreen. |
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| If a deal is made, it will simply be a smokescreen for maximizing the interests of certain countries. |
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| Nor should it be used as a smokescreen to hide a policy of territorial expansion based on terrorism and violence. |
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| She argued that the concept of choice too often acts as a smokescreen and camouflages women's disempowerment. |
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| Democracy is also being used as a smokescreen for the media terrorism that is currently being perpetrated with impunity in Poland. |
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| Such copying and pasting seemed more like a smokescreen to conceal collective hesitation. |
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| Much of the Commission's activity at this point in the investigation focuses on piercing this smokescreen to get at the truth. |
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| These are used as a smokescreen to distract us from the real issues. |
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| Wing Commander Frank Brock, a director of the company, used his background and passion for explosives and incendiaries to develop a smokescreen to conceal battleships at sea. |
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| We are now left to wonder whether the publicly-advertised trials of GM crops were only a smokescreen to divert attention away from the real, clandestine experiments. |
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| Gardai claim that a proposed marriage between a Corkman and a Romanian girl charged in a credit card scam is only a smokescreen to obtain a residency permit. |
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| More likely, it's another smokescreen designed to increase the public's general paranoia and portray the Department of Homeland Security as anything but incompetent. |
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| Hague last night insisted that he would not be silenced by accusations of racism, which he said were designed as a smokescreen to hide Labour's problems over asylum. |
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| Why don't you spend your valuable time actually answering Blair's accusation, or is this a nice little smokescreen to disguise the fact that you haven't got a leg to stand on? |
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| In reality, what happened in June was a political fix, more concerned with the future health of the coalition than the future of the NHS, and a fix that has acted as a smokescreen around the detail of the repackaged bill. |
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| The government is opposed to it and is simply putting up this smokescreen, clothing it in legalese that makes it look familiar but has nothing to do with what Mr. Cadman wanted done. |
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| Fraternal relations that respect differences and uniqueness are different from the smokescreen globalism of capital, which undermines the consciousness of our own legitimacy as a culture. |
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| It was all a smokescreen, because founder Doug Dobell was by all accounts the most generous of enthusiasts and friends, often willing to front money and forgive debts for jazz projects he liked. |
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| These alternatives must be developed with determination and must not be a smokescreen to hide ambiguities or conceal a policy which is directly or indirectly benefiting Saddam Hussein. |
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| But that may be a bit of a smokescreen as the elimination of the Canadian Wheat Board as a sole export seller of feed barley should not be viewed as the only explanation of recent market events. |
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| I will also tackle some of the deficiencies of the bill and why it is just a smokescreen for an attempt to appear accountable to Canadians about this industry when the government really is not. |
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| They were hoping to impress the gallery and set up a smokescreen. |
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| Be that as it may, many see the G20 cultural celebrations being used as a smokescreen, a way to divert people away from criticising the state government. |
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| While the state society reinforces its bonds of graft through smokescreen solidarity and prebendalism, the civil society weakens its stance through the pursuit of individualistic crumbs. |
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| Mr Allan rejected claims that Mr Campbell set up the row with the BBC as a smokescreen. |
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| This is merely a smokescreen and cover-up to hide personal agendas and vendettas. |
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| Mark Dowd is very clever when he refers to the safety angle, another little smokescreen. |
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| You can talk all you want about customer satisfaction, but consumers are quick to see through a smokescreen. |
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| Ladies and gentlemen, we must not allow ourselves to be seduced by sweet talk used as a smokescreen to conceal ruthless and inhumane right-wing policies. |
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| This is an attempt at putting up a smokescreen, but it is not working. |
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| Once again, he tried to create a smokescreen to divert attention from the real issues and to distort and hide the facts on the ground, which are starkly evident to all. |
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| At the time of the landing the wind changed and the smokescreen to cover the ship was blown offshore. |
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| All that talk is just a smokescreen to disguise the fact that he has nothing to say. |
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| Summarizing these different interpretations shows the delicate way that Wheeler's dialect functions both as communicative medium and distractive smokescreen. |
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| Behind this smokescreen, they continually push up prices based on technical information which no-one outside the industry is in a position to understand. |
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| Is this just a smokescreen to distract us from other things? |
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| I suspect it could be a smokescreen for the fact Ronan O'Gara was actually concussed, and he'd therefore miss the final match of the Championship. |
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| The first attempt on Zeebrugge was made on 2 April 1918 but cancelled at the last moment, after the wind direction changed and made it impossible to lay a smokescreen. |
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| The bombardment ships had taken position, the motor launches had formed a line, ready to generate the smokescreen and the escorts formed a square round the monitors. |
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