| For this trick to work, you have to deceive the spectators, you need a smoke screen. |
| The minister can no longer provide meaningless answers, which are just a smoke screen used because an election is in the not too distant future. |
| Not having the time to train someone is often a smoke screen for something else like a fear of giving up control. |
| The landing crafts sailed back towards the beaches under a smoke screen cover and partially protected by RAF fighters. |
| Mr Sharon is now trying to create a smoke screen to mislead the world and make people forget the Geneva peace initiative. |
| They would probably think the whole thing was some kind of devilish trick, a smoke screen for some larger splittist plot. |
