1.   Much thought is required to smooth the path if this scheme hopes to meet with success.

2.   Oiling the wheels, smoothing the path - very necessary components which pay dividends.

3.   Thus the Act goes a long way in smoothing the path of the prosecutor.

4.   Vaughan accompanied Elizabeth Mowbray and her daughter to London and, on arrival, smoothed their path ably and tactfully.

5.   Efforts are continuing to smooth the path of women into economics.

6.   It also helped smooth her path to orchestral podiums.

7.   She has taken pains to smooth the path, telling Russian journalists in recent interviews how much she admires the Russian language and culture.

8.   The city offered a variety of tax breaks, and has worked to smooth the path to the approvals required for new development.

9.   The gesture may help smooth his path among republicans, but it offended Italian monarchists, who feel the royal family has no need to apologize.

10.   The poet presents the legendary lumberjack as the prototypical can-do American who tames nature, clears the wilderness and helps smooth the path for settlement and industrialization.