Mr. Holmes cuts a figure of casual, smooth authority: slim-fitting suit, two buttons open on his shirt, French cuffs, neat pocket squares.
Wearing a yellow suit that was furnished to him hours earlier by the race's organizers as a symbol of his leadership, the star of the U.S. Postal Service team rode with power and smooth authority over the 58.5-kilometer course (about 36 miles) from Germany to France in hot weather to finish first in a time of 1 hour 5 minutes 1 second.
After the fallout over the last fare increase, she convened a group of budget experts to help smooth the authority's financial processes, mandated four-year financial plans and revamped the authority's budget documents.
This man was, after all, once a boy like Woody, a point emphasized by the presence of his own erstwhile mentors, in particular a crime boss played with smooth, unnervingly sympathetic authority by Dennis Haysbert.
The hope was that Israel would find a reliable security partner in this rebooted version of the Palestinian Authority, smoothing the way to a two-state solution.
The first, he said, is "leadership training, and guidance on how to organize a unit training around its command" — in other words, smoothing out any authority issues between junior officers and army commanders.
All that makes the selection of the next, or sixth, generation of Chinese Communist leaders an issue to attend to early, with kingmakers eager to identify candidates and strengthen their authority to smooth the next power transfer, set for 2022.
Treasury Department health policy adviser Mark Iwry told the Ways and Means Committee that the administration's one-year delay of the requirement for larger employers to offer coverage was in keeping with the agency's longstanding legal authority to smooth the implementation of complicated new tax laws.
Although increasingly based at the royal palace of Holyrood in Edinburgh, the monarch and the court were often itinerant, spending time at one of the royal palaces, like Linlithgow, Sterling and Falkland, or undertaking a royal progress to a part of the kingdom to ensure that the rule of law, royal authority or smooth government was maintained.
They had controversially been lifted by the city authorities to smooth the path for the Gazprom project.
Mr. Michas, the political analyst, added that support for smaller, politically extreme parties would not translate into votes if the authorities managed a "smooth countdown to the elections," by showing leadership in the face of attacks by angry citizens on politicians and other figures who supported Greece's loan deal.
