The agreement could smooth the way for release of the landmark legislation within a week or so.
Some observers guessed that he was trying to smooth the way for a climate-change bill by offering Republicans a present.
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Chefs throughout history have played a vital, behind-the-scenes role in diplomacy, helping to ease fraught relations and smooth the way for talks.
South Korea's foreign ministry also welcomed the agreement and said faithful implementation of the steps by North Korea would smooth the way for the talks.
SaaS is making it easier to smooth the way when common patterns do emerge, but the common patterns are much harder to come by than most people expect.
As the first Asian director to make his own distinctive mark in Hollywood, he is hoping he will be able to smooth the way for others to follow.
Most of the conversation at Courchevel this year was spent figuring out how best to tell their story to smooth the way for a listing on the London Stock Exchange.
Signal sent a handful of foremen to supervise the testing process and to meet with immigration officials at U.S. consulates in India and Dubai to smooth the way for visa applications.
Legislators from both parties have at various times advanced proposals that would smooth the way for skilled migrants, but they have usually foundered on the more intractable problem of dealing with illegal immigration.
The group claims a notable newcomer in Rubio, a potential 2016 presidential candidate whose conservative bona fides may help smooth the way for support among conservatives wary of anything that smacks of amnesty.
He will smooth the way for Treseder, allowing him to concentrate solely on coaching rather than logistics, and the working relationship between the two is key to the success of the programme going forward.
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These days personalities do not smooth the way.
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But the company has faced a barrage of unfavorable publicity in recent months, including the fallout from allegations that it bribed officials in Mexico in order to smooth the way for store expansion, and criticism about its global sourcing practices after its clothing was found in a Bangladesh factory where more than 100 workers died in a fire last year.
The vehicle seems impossibly smooth in the way it zips around, and even the ride itself feels like you're on a firm cloud.
As a man with an interest in the classics, Gen Petraeus has always followed the Latin injunction Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo (be tough in your aims, but smooth in the way you put them into practice).
Here the financial crisis has blown apart the fragile consensus between purists and Keynesians that monetary policy was the best way to smooth the business cycle.
The administration's measured response paved the way for the current smooth relationship.
Sparx candy by Xlear were sweet and didn't have the artificial sweetening aftertaste, while CocoaVia by Mars, Inc. was smooth and creamy, just the way a chocolate bar should be.
He was not good looking, at least not in the smooth, symmetrical way expected of leading men, but women found him strangely attractive.
Additionally, with a bank in the U.S. providing smooth transfer of funds, it paves the way for hedge funds and other institutional investors to enter the market because investment charters can sometimes limit new placements to U.S. entities only.
Handled correctly, that type of growth can become self-sustaining, but monetary policy can help smooth out any bumps along the way.
His team has been in close contact with the Bush administration to pave the way for a smooth handover of power.
The ice cream was beautifully presented in that Italian way that makes the gelati look soft, smooth and perplexingly weightless.
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And the way we did it, we realized we could make a super smooth, creamy product that was the best ice cream we had ever tasted.
Operated by the Kempinski Hotel, 15 luxury ski chalets gaze over the slopes, allowing visitors to watch the bambi-on-ice skiers slip and slide down the slalom or applaud the smooth boarders as they twist and carve their way down.
For instance, the process to increase burn and wound healing includes removing the dead or decaying flesh in a way that leaves a smooth, evenly thick surface for grafts and healing.
Even so, investors have been fearful about how InPhonic would smooth out its operating cash flow needs (thanks to the changes in the way it counts revenue), whether it would run out of money (the company has been using more cash than it generates) and whether there would be a stock repurchase.
Ms. HOLIDAY: (Singing) Smooth road, clear day, but why am I the only one traveling this way.
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