Yet his party has stayed loyal; in spite of repeated rumblings of discontent among Pasok lawmakers, even the toughest measures have passed smoothly through parliament.
With the formerly deadlocked political system now working smoothly, parliament has passed some long-awaited laws, including a new criminal code.
By canceling flights earlier than in the past, the airlines are effectively calling a "time out" in their operations, which allows them to resume flying more smoothly when the bad weather has passed.
The "CGTank®" system was first applied in the Tianjin LNG demonstration project, which has passed all indicator tests and is now in operation smoothly.
In particular, Johnson writes: He appears to find no difficulty in most of those passages which I have represented as unintelligible, and has therefore passed smoothly over them, without any attempt to alter or explain them.
Later that afternoon, as Castro watched Air Force One take off, his enigmatic smile suggesteda sense of relief among the Cubans that the visit had passed off smoothly.
9.39am: Hot off the Reuters terminal, here's more City reaction to the Dutch debt auction (which does appear to have passed more smoothly than feared, despite the Dutch selling less than the €2.5bn maximum target): Michael Leister of DZ Bank: The figures look all right....The negative news doesn't extend further given that the auction is... a solid one.
Officials said the election had passed off smoothly, with a turnout of some 45%, about average for Ukraine.
Some participants described cardiac surgery as a piece of cake, as everything had gone smoothly and the days in hospital had passed quickly.
