Sentence examples for smoothly pulling off from inspiring English sources

While Brazilian officials have had to deal with political turmoil, the Zika scare, insufficient funds, polluted venues, and safety concerns, Japan still boasts one of the world's biggest economies and a track record of smoothly pulling off major international events, from the 1964 Olympics to last May's G7 summit.

"Guards at the Taj" is a work that relies heavily on surprise, so the most I'll say is that the transition from Beckett's philosophical clowning to the macabre farce of Martin McDonagh (author of "The Pillowman," "A Behanding in Spokane" and other carnage-filled comedies) is smoothly pulled off.

For many Greeks, it was victory enough that their country had managed to pull off a smoothly run Olympics, an effort that required the care and handling of more than 16,000 athletes and team officials, 30,000 journalists, uncounted dignitaries and members of the International Olympic Committee with their assorted bodyguards.

Think of smoothly pulling back and arrow on a bow.

Let us hope the transfer of power goes smoothly on Friday and that Mr. Trump can pull off half of what he has promised, and the country will be a roaring success.

Difficult to pull off.

If it pulls off the gambit and comes out with no one injured on either side and a race that is run as smoothly as anywhere else in the world, it cannot cry "success".

Pull off the Band-Aid.

Im has pulled off both.

Can he pull off "statesmanlike"?

I pulled off the mask.