Drew Brees smoothly led a touchdown drive on his only series, and the New Orleans Saints beat the Arizona Cardinals, 17-10, in the Hall of Fame game in Canton, Ohio.
Will the transition will go smoothly and lead to a global economy that is both fairer and more prosperous?
BERLIN — It was not in the least bit surprising to see Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia smoothly take the lead at the start of the bell lap in the men's 10,000-meter race, then accelerate to his fourth world championship title with the sparse crowd in Olympic Stadium offering him a standing ovation.
Siemens said growth was driven by its bread-and-butter industry sector, which makes machine tools that large companies use to equip factories, automation gear to help industrial plants run smoothly and LED lightbulbs that cut luxury cars' energy bills.
The lack of precision in the notion of continuous function still vaguely understood as one which could be represented by a formula and whose associated curve could be smoothly drawn had led to doubts concerning the validity of a number of procedures in which that concept figured.
Most importantly, the destruction of dictatorships does not lead smoothly to democracy.
As the subsequent history of Virgin Galactic has shown, prize-winning technology does not always lead smoothly to commercial success.
Fine acting (especially by Jean-Pierre Richard, as an anti-Semitic drama critic), restrained direction, and Nestor Almendros's beautifully muted color cinematography lead smoothly to a satisfying, appropriately theatrical conclusion.
Does each sentence lead smoothly to the next?
The S-Class was shaped to lead buyers smoothly from the Mercedes line to the superluxury Maybach, with which it shares lines and the shape of its hood.
