Sentence examples of "smokescreen" in English
Financial stability was obviously a smokescreen: taxpayers were forced to repay even the debts of a bank that had already been closed (and thus systemically irrelevant).
Финансовая стабильность явно была ширмой: налогоплательщики были вынуждены погасить даже долги банка, который уже был закрыт (и, таким образом, не влияющим на банковскую систему).
The United States intends to create a smokescreen to conceal its violations of human rights in Abu Ghraib, as well as its illegal Guantanamo Bay naval base where there have been, for around five years, flagrant and massive violations of the human rights of hundreds of prisoners who are tortured using reprehensible methods and who are cruelly, humiliatingly and inhumanely mistreated.
Соединенные Штаты Америки намереваются создать ширму для того, чтобы скрыть свои нарушения прав человека в Абу-Грейбе, а также на незаконной военно-морской базе в Гуантанамо, где они уже почти пять лет совершают вопиющие массовые нарушения прав человека сотен заключенных, которых пытают, используя самые отвратительные методы и подвергают жестокому унизительному и негуманному обращению.
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