11.   They help to smooth the path of social interaction.

12.   Together, these meetings and a budding joint arms procurement agency could smooth the path toward a single European policy.

13.   We smoothed a path to the ocean at the darkest point on the beach.

14.   You might find that you had inadvertently killed an expert hacker who might have smoothed your path through a difficult sequence, or enlisted a coward or a traitor.

15.   Global companies with years of experience in providing consulting services and systems integration, can smooth the path of change and help businesses and nations keep pace in telecommunications.

16.   Munk has recruited some influential people to help smooth the path for international acquisitions.

17.   Smoothing the path for U.S. investments in Macedonia, the Overseas Private Investment Corp. signed an agreement Friday on protection of American businesses in this southern Balkan country.

18.   The agreement announced Thursday could smooth the path for introduction of the next generation of wireless communications that will deliver data and video as well as voices.

19.   U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali met top civilian and military advisors Thursday to discuss how to smooth the path toward peace in former Yugoslavia.

20.   U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali met top civil and military advisors Thursday to discuss how to smooth the path toward peace in former Yugoslavia.