And in each of these cases, what you have is a process that's not always smooth.

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Boehner's rise to the top of the GOP ranks was not always smooth.

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SABMiller, admits that this is not always smooth sailing.

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But the road was not always smooth.

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That has not always been smooth, but politicians have learned that it pays to be flexible, for example by finding ways for ministers from small parties to be excused from collective responsibility on certain sensitive issues.

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It's not always a smooth path.

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While users do not always have the smooth (and prompted) path to the latest Android OS that is available to iOS users, Google and their partners have worked hard to contain the fragmentation issue.

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"It's not always going to be smooth, " said Miller, who threw 96 pitches.

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The road to success, Maida says, was not preordained nor was it always a smooth ride.

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