This car is running less smoothly than it used to.

Everything went smoothly.

I got a smooth shave.

The operation went smoothly.

Tom is clean shaven.

It went very smoothly.

We had a very smooth ride.

In China, the leadership transition has occurred smoothly.

Of course, any number of things can go wrong.

Of course, there are instances of misconduct, misbehavior and disasters.

Tom had his hair slicked back.

I do hope everything will go smoothly.

How can voters make intelligent judgments when campaigns are so carefully scripted and slickly promoted?

Indeed, the revolution was never a smooth affair.

Courts were bought, documents forged, and the process went smoothly.

There is no guarantee that all of this will succeed or proceed smoothly.

Most team members were women and everything went very smoothly initially.

It was all very well having elections until the wrong side won.

On one hand, he is wise not to have visited the Yasukuni shrine, which honors millions of Japan s war dead, including 14 Class A war criminals.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is off to an uneven start.

Yet national independence can also be handled peacefully and smoothly.

But the announcement of this policy change at the February meeting also did not go smoothly.

There are reasons to worry whether the needed transitions will, in fact, occur smoothly. First, with asset prices like housing fueled by global liquidity, goods prices kept quiescent by excess capacity and global trade, and interest rates held down by muted investment, domestic and external imbalances have been easily financed.

There are reasons to worry whether the needed transitions will, in fact, occur smoothly.

The Kremlin, meanwhile, presumably wants the elections to go smoothly, most of all.

With this rocky start for Aoun's presidency, only time will tell what comes next for Lebanon.

And what they do is step, very coarsely at first, and then very finely afterward.

Brainwashed Iraqi forces, and a regime complicit at every level in Saddam's crimes, would be fighting not to hang on to a conquest (as in the Gulf War of 1991) but to defend their homeland.

Churchill once wrote Never, never, never assume that any war will be smooth and easy.

Here was reform by the numbers shrink the state, it was assumed, and government would run more smoothly.

And it's a big family reunion, and yet, like many family reunions, it's not all peace and light.

CB All right, so Leo and Cookie might have gotten off to a little bit of a rough start, but they get along great now.

If such monetary arrangements are transparent and cooperatively drawn, they could occur smoothly and without financial turmoil.

She also spoke to RuNet Echo, saying that her encounters with the foreign press have not always gone smoothly

As the implementation of the Quota Act isn't going too smoothly, we should perhaps take a closer look at the Act itself, for it has caused a huge debate even before it was passed by the vote.

Will the transition will go smoothly and lead to a global economy that is both fairer and more prosperous?

And so does your bleep . These days, with a hair free back, well groomed shoulders and an extra optical inch on my bleep , well, let's just say life has gotten pretty darn cozy.

What is surprising is that, given the differences now arising between the US and its allies the word schism might not be inappropriate Mr. Bush's meetings with Europe's leaders proceeded so smoothly.

But, of course, this can only function smoothly if exchange rate fluctuations between its members currencies have been eliminated.

And you begin to see the alternative centers of power building up in China, of course, though my own guess is that China's ascent to greatness is not smooth.

While the transformation may not always be seamless, there is no longer room to doubt that an Asian century is on the horizon, and that the world s chemistry will change fundamentally.

Suddenly a quite different feeling, not of pain but of tormenting inward discomfort, made him for a moment forget his toothache.

Well, well, well.

But a key condition for a smooth redeployment of US troops is close consultations by America with its allies, something it has not done well up to now.

Well I never!