Captain Sullenberger carefully and smoothly guided the Airbus jet into the Hudson River.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

It also helps the heart and nervous system work smoothly.

VOA: special.2009.04.21

Canal negotiations between America and Colombia did not go smoothly.

VOA: special.2010.08.19

One who has kissed the Blarney stone, so the story goes, can speak words of praise so smoothly and sweetly that you believe them, even when you know they are false.

VOA: special.2010.09.26

When they work together, chemical reactions take place smoothly.

VOA: special.2009.04.21

Spaces flow smoothly from one area to another.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

Health officials say trials have gone smoothly and Australia could be the first country anywhere to start a mass immunization program.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

The director of the national Electoral Commission, Moses Ndjarakana,told reporters that the balloting for the most part had gone smoothly.

VOA: standard.2009.11.28

The country's Independent Election Commission spokesman Noor Mohammad Noor says that so far, the preparations are going smoothly.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

(Speaking - NO TRANSCRIPTS HERE) But the building of Disney's kingdom did not always go smoothly.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

The commission's special representative, Hamziya al Husseini says voter turnout in the three Kurdish provinces was impressive, and that the voting process went smoothly.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

The commando operation Monday appears to have been executed smoothly and with no civilian casualties.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

To accomplish the transition smoothly, says Yoon,North Korea must either normalize ties with the United States, or win de facto global acceptance as a nuclear state.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Namibian Election officials say the second day of polling went relatively smoothly although lines were long early in the morning in heavily populated areas of the country.

VOA: standard.2009.11.28

Endeavour's last scheduled night launch went smoothly in the pre-dawn hours Monday.

VOA: standard.2010.02.08

"You've suddenly seen that the implementation isn't going as smoothly."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

Kurdistan's Interior Minister, Karim Zingari, who belongs to the ruling coalition between the Kurdish Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), insisted that international observers saw to it that the process went smoothly.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

"The progress in terms of the Afghan government doing its side of the bargain and improving its level of governance isn't happening as smoothly as it should, that the build-up of the Afghan army is again slower than it should.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

The election,for the most part, she adds,went smoothly. Husseini told al Arabiya TV the process of tabulating votes is being done in Baghdad, "due to the ability to conduct business in a strictly controlled environment, according to international standards."

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

"So altogether we are pleased now after eight days." "Of course we still have got eight days to go, but there is no reason to believe that those next eight days will not operate as smoothly as we have done so far."

VOA: standard.2010.02.21