red herring

"The blame put on China, Brazil and India is nothing but a red herring to distract people's attention from the real problem, " he said.

Then finally to a red herring, and then only on the rest of my small and a little hint of the Secretary of the reaction.

Protecting the environment is often portrayed as a political red herring that undercuts how competitive American business can be.

That was just a red herring to lull you into a false sense of security while I made my plans.

The next instruction is a bit of a red herring, at least as far as this article is concerned.

He said it was a "red herring" to try now and claim that this was some shocking new revelation.

And with our hyper-consumption of those animals producing greenhouse gases and heart disease, kindness might just be a bit of a red herring.

Inflation numbers, due out on Thursday, look like a red herring.

This point of view certainly has some truth, but rather a red herring, ". "

As for the left-eyed and right-eyed flatfish, their difference, however striking, appears to be an evolutionary red herring.

It started out with an article in Red Herring.

What Americans ought to care most about is maintaining our growth, not the red herring of gaps in income and wealth.

Incidentally a 'furphy' is an Australian term for a red herring or false report.

Calculation is a red herring in engineering - what's important is an architectural understanding of space.

Still, many physicists pointed out it could yet prove to be a red herring.

This church has a Norman tower and a Gothic facade ; it's neither fish flesh nor good red herring.

1 part "red herring" (distraction, i. e. funny commercial with no relevance to product) on the top as a garnish.

Four little Indian boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three.

Four little black boys going out to sea, A red herring swallowed one, and then there were three.

The bilateral trade imbalance, the target of so many American politicians' anger, is an economic red herring.

Last month Red Herring magazine predicted that Mr Rollins would not survive 2007 in post.

He says the threat of dangerous quakes is a "red herring" that has slowed investment, particularly federal money.

Such regeneration will, of course, do nothing to help Cornwall or Belfast, but that is a red herring.

That's a red herring to try to discredit necessary rules and regs established to protect us from ourselves.

This is going to sound radical. But could it be that "open" is a great big fat red herring?

Red herring: n. Something that draws attention away from the central issue.

A "red herring" is a distraction, something that takes attention away from the real issue.

The ethics argument is a red herring, and not a particularly sustainable one.

A "red herring" diverts attention from the main issue.

The WHERE clause is a repeat of this condition and adds a red herring of "product number in (1 through 10). "

Information that is used to draw attention away from the real facts of asituatoinsituation is called a red herring.

This apparent conflict between scenic beauty and biodiversity on one hand and economic development on the other is a red herring.

Information that is used to draw attention away from the real facts ofthe a situation is called a red herring.

Even Britain's trade deficit with Europe is a red herring.

A red herring swallowed one, and then there were three.

The current debate on a European SDRM is therefore a red herring.

This story is a red herring to divert public attention from this issue.

Companies make a religion of security, but this is largely a red herring.

His critics say his emphasis on the past 10 years is a red herring.

Again, there is the red herring of product numbers in 1 through 10 (in other words, all of them).

My hope is that common people such as myself will reject the red herring excuses of the government and stop shooting themselves in the foot.

This is a red herring.

I like to imagine a world in which "neither fish, flesh nor good red herring " was irritatingly common.

Red herring: type of small fish, idiom for something diverting attention from the real problem, a misleading clue