1.   I am not one who believes that extra resources necessarily solve problems or necessarily smooth the way to their solution.

2.   It is hoped that the negotiations will smooth the way for an agreement later this year.

3.   Our representatives will be waiting for you to arrive, and ready to help smooth the way.

4.   Staff helped smooth the way for the new administration.

5.   The fact that bumiputra ownership had increased dramatically, no doubt helped smooth the way.

6.   A comprehensive and joint conference would be held to smooth the way for the establishment of the provisional government in Somalia within three months.

7.   Their duplicity on both counts undoubtedly smoothed their way to buying Harrods, and now embarrasses those in the British government and the City of London who believed them.

8.   There were no words to explain how she felt but her body would smooth a way.

9.   American officials plainly hope to smooth their way around the issue by creating a force that would be dominated by NATO yet not be an official NATO enterprise.

10.   And they are helped along by a mini-infrastructure of consultants, venture capitalists, and the Israeli government that smooth the way for Israeli startups in the Valley.