Sentence examples for not a smooth process from inspiring English sources

Students should focus on how the fire drill proceeded and why it was or was not a smooth process.

"This process is not a smooth process," said Mao Yushi, an executive board member of a prominent economic and political research institute in Beijing.

That passage resonated, perhaps because I've hit the latter of the ages mentioned, and I recall my father, a doctor, saying that aging is not a smooth process but more like a staircase — you go along heedless for a while with nothing appearing to shift and then, oops, you find you've gone down another step and the exit is closer than the entrance.

Business is not a smooth process.

It was not a smooth process.

Innovation, however, is not a smooth process but comes in fits and starts.

"Other states needing money will look and say, 'It wasn't a smooth process, but California is going to come out ahead,' " Mr. Wood said.

Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a smooth process.

It's not always a smooth process.

Things have moved on a lot in 38 years, but even now it's not exactly a smooth process.

It has not been a smooth process, but barring worldwide catastrophe, as Mr. Grahm put it, he is due to close on the parcel within a few weeks.