But smooth lawyers like Mr Edwards have made a fortune by convincing juries that this is the case.
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This could have been such a smooth transition for Mr. Hastings and Netflix.
And so, despite his reputation for smooth talk, Mr Clinton wasted opportunities in 1997 because his talk was inadequate.
First, however, Mr Davies will need to smooth the feathers of people like Richard Farrant, the chief executive of the Securities and Futures Authority.
The usually smooth-mannered Mr. Trichet lost his patience.
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In the interview, Mr. Sharif said he expected a smooth relationship with the army this time around.
And Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett urged Mr Blair and Gordon Brown to ensure a smooth transition of power.
Mr. ISIKOFF: Well, he is very smooth, very polished, very suave, beguiling in many ways.
Mr Brown would spend his visit trying to "smooth things over" with his party's biggest political backers, he added.
He said a handover to Mr Brown could soon be followed by a "smooth transition" to Conservative leader David Cameron.
Mr Hollande is not suggesting slower fiscal adjustment to smooth the path of reform: he is proposing not to reform at all.
Mr Edwards has also been encouraged from what seems like a smooth start to payment by results - from 2003 some hospitals have been operating under the system for elective care as pilots.
Mr Ball ends with the resin-based, acrylic and other smooth paints used by big-name contemporary artists.
Mr. Obama's defenders said he appeared to be trying to smooth over a tense situation.
To bridge the gap, Mr Kim has set up a task-force to prepare for a smooth transition of the presidency.
It says Tokyo was just "trying to smooth things over" by insisting that the Post had misquoted Mr Abe last week.
"It was as smooth as it could be pre-Internet, " says Mr. Brouk, now a communications and media specialist for Purdue University's College of Science.
His spokesman, a loyal but rough spin-doctor, was replaced earlier this year by a smooth-talking Catalan who is not even a member of Mr Aznar's party.
Since last year, when Mr Suharto resigned in disgrace, its goal has been to help ensure a smooth transition to democracy.
Mr Ferman was a moralist but he was aware that the movie business sought a smooth passage for its expensive products.
Such a smooth transition (which follows a similarly well managed hand-over to Mr Reinemund from his predecessor, Roger Enrico) is an anomaly nowadays, says Mrs Wiersema.
In a worrying move, Mr Chavez changed the rules of a new stabilisation fund, which is supposed to smooth out the economic impact of volatility in the oil price.
When he was appointed as minister without portfolio in Mr Mbeki's cabinet earlier this year, it was seen as an attempt to smooth the transition to a post-Mbeki era.
Even though the PPP's victory in an election in 2008 has led to an unusually long stint under Mr Zardari and his prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, their sway has hardly been smooth or unchallenged.
Mr Barrow's familiarity with the material allows him to glide from Pascal to Pasadena in smooth, informative paragraphs.
In an effort to mimic the soft exterior of a real bed, Mr. Fischer coated one of the bed sculptures with white paint but then interrupted the smooth surface by pouring a pile of real concrete over it, weighing down one side of the sculpture's surface.
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Mr. Obama told radio talk-show host Michael Smerconish last week that his re-election will smooth over bad feelings.
Mr Trichet presides over a currency zone more diverse than America's, but without the fiscal stabilisers that help smooth over regional variations.
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