Sentence examples for managed to smooth over from inspiring English sources

Perhaps even more impressively she managed to smooth over industrial relations with the Communication Workers Union (CWU), which had threatened days of strikes before Christmas.

Ms. Parisse, who has smartly honed her performance since appearing in the play's world premiere, manages to smooth over the slight contrivances in the conception of Becky.

Despite the poorly distributed chorus numbers, absurd script and occasionally rushed plot, the cast manage to smooth over nearly all the show's flaws with their abundant talent.

Gore Vidal and Louis Auchincloss, not William Gaddis and Don DeLillo, are the figures it's easiest to picture at his side, and though Haslett writes skilfully, intelligently and wide-rangingly, he doesn't always manage to smooth over the contrast between the gleamingly topical aspects of the story and his rather old-fashioned narrative style.

But, adds the source, "This issue has come up before, and they have managed to smooth things over and get back together.

Have they managed to smooth things out?

Through extensive software work, Microsoft has managed to smooth some of the very rough edges that still accompany gesture technology.

And even if the government manages to smooth the way for performance pay, other battles loom.

Health care providers, led by drugstores, also are taking steps to smooth over problems.

Jacob Lateiner's reading rather tended to smooth over these differences.

So every effort is made to smooth over any tension.