Does the well-oiled, widely feted political machinery of the White House run on its own?
Guffawing critics ridicule this well-oiled "Singabore", casting its good citizens as naive, skin-deep and unadventurous.
There is plainly a delight (and maybe competition) among father and sons in building well-oiled, endlessly churning profit machines.
When private demand suddenly plunges, it helps to have a well-oiled machinery of state that can quickly step in.
"You talk about a well-oiled machine, those guys are efficient both offensively and defensively, " Raptors coach Dwane Casey said.
Last week the right-leaning groups backing Jones looked more like bratty children than cogs in a well-oiled conspiracy machine.
The police operation to cope with the influx is already well-oiled after last year's final, when Arsenal lost to Liverpool.
"They have a well-oiled machine, " said Patrick, one of the authors of the national study, said of the Knoxville hospital unit.
Happy ones work like a well-oiled machine, phones are answered, deadlines met and everyone goes home whistling to dinner shortly after five.
Instead, she said, the teams of people that take on the biggest, baddest foes in WoW have to work together like a well-oiled machine.
The Paris system is slick in every way: Cool bikes, reasonable prices, excellent placement of stations, and a process that works like a well-oiled machine.
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Given this impressive track record, one would likely assume that that company was a well-oiled machine, deeply disciplined and effectively managed from top to bottom.
Like Harmison, Johnson sometimes gives the impression that his best spells almost happen by happy accident, his action less well-oiled machine than a randomly-firing weapon.
Vendors are excellent at squeezing value from well-oiled commodity technologies.
In comparison, the press centre works like a well-oiled machine.
It expanded by 6% a year from 1952 to 2000, powered by a well-oiled export machine that catapulted the resource-poor island of 23 million people into the major leagues.
For the veterans who remember when Goldman wasn't the well-oiled trading machine it has become, there is a view that it has lost its way ethically in recent decades.
France suffered Iranian-inspired bombings in the 1980s and Algerian ones in the 1990s, but has remained largely unscathed in recent years, thanks in part to a well-oiled counter-terrorist apparatus.
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The President and the Secretary of Energy should continue the reforms of the last four years, but also continue reforming DOE to make it a well-oiled engine for clean energy innovation.
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The well-oiled machine that is the Park Slope Parents listserv diagnosed a similar problem before Bococa and began requiring parents who post recommendations for nannies to agree to an integrity code.
The Brotherhood has been a well-oiled machine for centuries.
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Italy's Juventus is steaming towards an undefeated season and the electrifying Borussia Dortmund has clinched the German Bundesliga, England's limp contenders are giving fans plenty of fuel for their well-oiled anxiety machine.
Co-ordinating the effort is a remarkably well-oiled bureaucracy.
So keep those helicopters well-oiled and on standby.
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That is unfair, but if the government cannot convince local businesspeople, it has little hope of wooing capital from elsewhere, especially when other states, led by Gujarat, have well-oiled machines for attracting money and talent.
"To step into something that was already a well-oiled machine, which is effectively the Broadway cast, it was very much on my mind to not be the weakest link, but once I got comfortable with everything, it was such a fun character and so over the top, " Ferrell says.
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At a time when the Spanish superclubs Barcelona and Real Madrid are amassing points at an unprecedented rate, Italy's Juventus is steaming toward an undefeated season and the electrifying Borussia Dortmund has clinched the German Bundesliga, England's limp contenders are providing English fans with plenty of fuel for their well-oiled anxiety machine.
Her seeming inability to give direct answers on questions such as drivers licenses for illegal immigrants and the fate of the Clinton papers in the National Archives made a lot of people wonder whether the heretofore well-oiled Clinton machine was on the verge of breaking down, if it wasn't a myth to begin with.
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