Other requests for repatriation have not gone as smoothly, especially when museums were asked for valuable burial artifacts that they have carefully preserved.
The bill came for the "original moonshine" — which had been distilled in Culpeper, Virginia — and Bondurant, who'd asked for it on the rocks, observed that although his liquor had gone down smoothly, it was still an outsider's interpretation.
"We got what we asked for," wrote Sembler, "on base access, transit, and overflights, ensuring that forces... could flow smoothly through Italy to get to the fight".
And for those people that have to rely on phoning up to ask for information to be posted out to them that that process works as smoothly as possible".
Carter places such importance on SALT II, talks for which have been going smoothly with Russia, and believes he can get a treaty limiting the nymber and variety of Soviet and American strategic weapons, that he is asking for almost 6 billion dollars more for defense and 2 billion dollars for civil defense to appease opponents of detente among the military, lobbyists and Congressmen.
However, if the police ask for your ID and you feel comfortable showing it, there's no harm in making the process go more smoothly by handing it over.
The whole point of asking for a miracle is that you want help from something/someone outside of yourself - a power struggle over the outcome just inhibits its ability to unfold smoothly.
There is this great deli called Montes in Canonbury Road off Upper Street [London N1] where I get my lemon olives and pasta and I asked them for a cheese that melted smoothly.
A second order went even more smoothly, as should have been expected: The Times had asked Waiter.com for permission to photograph workers in Sunnyvale and Manhattan as they processed the order.
Things were going reasonably smoothly and then we asked that last question.
