Sentences with phrase «as a red herring»

In fact, the Cyrillic characters found scattered among the meta data leaked on the Friday before France's election could alternately be read as a red herring intended to fit the news from six months earlier, and mislead cybersleuths.

And I guarantee that back when, segregationist groups used these same sorts of «religious freedom» arguments as red herrings to disguise their real agenda.

Using oranges and apples analogies as red herrings only adds to the belief that the NRA and the gun worshipers truly are not thinking this seriously nor have sensible, realistic, reasonable, practical and feasible solutions to gun violence but rather fallacies and incorrect assumptions.

Makhijani pointed to a widely touted French process for recycling nuclear waste as a red herring (ClimateWire, May 18).

It is an accomplishment owing much to Donen's deployment of such Hitchcockian elements as Red Herrings (the Matthau and Grant characters) and Maguffins (an elusive $ 250,000), and gorgeous cinematography (the legendary Charles Lang).

It was a question raised in The Force Awakens, hotly debated in the years after, and played as a red herring in the movie itself.

Whether he is throwing us off guard with a haunting image that zooms out to reveal it is little more than a portrait, acting as a red herring, or simply greeting the audience with a disturbingly visual parade of naked flesh in the opening sequence, you leave this movie thinking about the imagery.

Yet Anderson uses Rebecca as a red herring, as Phantom Thread's surprises often center on its deviations from such a template.

«So long as districts continue to ignore the crushing reality of the looming financial crisis at the hands of unfunded retiree liabilities, and so long as the Legislature fails to fundamentally overhaul the authorizing structure in California, we anticipate that powerful special interests will continue to use charter public schools as a red herring to avoid the hard decisions that lie ahead,» continued Marquez.

While there are hints about Jess's behavior and the concerns expressed by her parents and her teachers and some remarks about her odd behavior, I wasn't sure what to make of those, whether they were intended to serve as red herrings, leading readers astray or prompting us not to trust her, or if they were intended to make Jess sound as though she was on the autism spectrum, given that she didn't like hugs or close physical contact.

The title of this exhibition is derived from naturalistic fallacy, which is part of a more widely referenced family of logical gaffes such as the red herring, ad hominem and false cause.

It's too easy to use «cycles» as a red herring distraction to divert attention to a more real and serious problem.

A typical law school exam is as follows: You will be asked to draft several long essays based on prompts (usually fact patterns), often with the aim of «issue spotting» — facts are peppered in that raise potential legal issues, as well as some red herrings designed to throw you off.

it's always the same deal with religious folk: show some marketable humble or charitable stuff to pull the sheep in and rake in some dollars to pay for the lavish robes, and provide something to use as a red herring to keep people from focusing in on the nasty bits and priest crimes.

And I won't dignify the article because you threw that as a red herring.

I would say, those who don't care about what's causing it, who see the argument of «are humans causing it» as a red herring, are focused on solutions, and how to fix it.

Those who don't view it as a red herring want a drastic change in our lifestyles, and want to decrease the amount of co2 we pump into the air.

Those who view it as a red herring want to create new technology, don't want some major shift in how we live our daily lives, and want to find a way to remove co2 from the air.

The three - member panel presided over by Justice William Atuguba, threw out the application for lack of merit, and described it as a red herring introduced as a further illustration of Mr. Woyome's «delay tactics.»

Vocal Usenet users dismiss this as a red herring.

Do you think this was to foreshadow actual events or used as a red herring?

In other words, you are picking on «high amplitude and persistent ridging» as the red herring (short term events) to distract from the probability analysis (regarding the long term anomaly trend attributable to increased RF).

And, sometimes, business decisions (like buying that iPad Scott loves to throw out as a red herring) will be basically irrelevant to the service you provide to your clients.