Often, the presidential nominee will name a vice presidential candidate who will bring geographic or ideological balance to the ticket or appeal to a particular constituency.

Often, the candidate is right in this accusation, but one candidate's " dirty trick " is another's " political strategy.

Often several contestants dropped out of the pageant before the televised preliminary, thus there would be a candidate with # 30 assigned to her, but only 25 or so contestants.

Often, a nakōdo will require a candidate to bring a family history to prove that they are not a member of the burakumin.

Often a poset comes with a natural candidate for a rank function ; for instance if its elements are finite subsets of some base set B, one can take the number of elements of those subsets.

Often dismissed as an unreliable tradition, it has been studied with attention by modern scholars, in particular Neil Christie, who see in it a possible record of a formal invitation by the Byzantine state to settle in northern Italy as foederati, to help protect the region against the Franks, an arrangement that may have been disowned by Justin II after Narses ' removal.

Often, a serial bus can be operated at higher overall data rates than a parallel bus, despite having fewer electrical connections, because a serial bus inherently has no timing skew or crosstalk.

Often clairvoyance has been associated with religious or shamanic figures, offices and practices.

Often described as the opposite of déjà vu, jamais vu involves a sense of eeriness and the observer's impression of seeing the situation for the first time, despite rationally knowing that he or she has been in the situation before.

Often after the director has had his chance to oversee a cut, the subsequent cuts are supervised by one or more producers, who represent the production company and / or movie studio.

Often the training period-the costs of which are in great part covered by the initial fee-is too short in cases where it is necessary to operate complicated equipment, and the franchisee has to learn on his own from instruction manuals.

Often a hero in these situations has a foil, the villain, typically a charismatic evildoer who represents, leads, or himself embodies the struggle the hero is up against.

Often the villain will try to convince the hero either a ) the villain is not in fact evil like the hero thinks he is, b ) the hero is actually the evil / immoral one, c ) the mentor character has been using the hero's special qualities for his own ends and does not really care about him / her.

Often informal or formally intrinsic to local religious customs, this type of insurance has survived to the present day in some countries where a modern money economy with its financial instruments is not widespread.

Often serious crimes have been either poorly investigated or prosecution has been declined.

Often outing is used solely to damage the outed person's reputation, and has thus been controversial.

Often in a pan and scan telecast, a character will seem to be speaking offscreen, when what has really happened is that the pan and scan technique has cut his image out of the screen.

Often the center has a chimney of sorts built with sticks and then lined with feedbags or grasses that allows water placed at the center to flow out into the soil and reach the plants ' roots.

Often the heel of the sole has a rubber plate for durability and traction, while the front is leather for style.

Often, a block in a data flow diagram has a single input and a single output, and operate on discrete packets of information.

Often, parents of sick children would learn at check-out time that " Mr. Williams has taken care of your bill.

Often a court will assert a modest degree of power over a case for purposes of determining whether it has jurisdiction, and so the word " power " is not necessarily synonymous with the word " jurisdiction ".

Often an unregulated activity of opportunity in coastal communities, wrecking has been subjected to increasing regulation and evolved into what is now known as marine salvage.

Often they are recent immigrants, but xenophobia may be directed against a group which has been present for centuries, or became part of this society through conquest and territorial expansion.

A standard indoor track is designed similarly to an outdoor track, but is only 200 metres in length and has between four and eight lanes, each with width between 0. 90 m and 1. 10 m. Often, the bends of an indoor track will be banked to compensate for the small turning radius.

Often has whiskers.

Often used for fly fishing the fly reel or fly casting reel has traditionally been rather simple in terms of mechanical construction, little has changed from the design patented by Charles F. Orvis in 1874.

Often, the child has a large vocabulary and can identify many objects and pictures, but cannot put their language skills to good use.

Often, however, the phytoleim is lost and all that remains is an impression of the organism in the rock — an impression fossil.

Often on such machines if memory is lost, it can only be reclaimed by a reboot, an example of such a system being AmigaOS.

Often there is no indication regarding how a player won or lost ( other than checkmate, see above ), so simply 1 – 0 or 0 – 1 may be written to show that one player resigned or lost because of time control.

Often, as in Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town or Alistair MacLeod's No Great Mischief, the simplicity of rural living is lost in the city.

Often the true meanings have been lost, but they all have a purpose which is usually to serve as a lesson or a warning to the young or to those passing through the area.

Often the etymology of a place name is lost or obscured, such as in the case of Kingussie, from " Cinn a ' Ghiuthsaich " ( The Heads of the Pine Forest ).

Often these tunes have off-beat accents, usually in even numbered bars, presumably corresponding to the ( lost ) dance steps.

Often much of this information is lost or distorted by the fossilization process or diagenesis of the enclosing sediments, making interpretation difficult.

Often, to set up a squeeze, one or more tricks must be lost in advance.

Often, referees utilize two watches so that they can use one to calculate time lost for stoppages for the purposes of added time.

Often lost in the discussion of Bernstein v. United States, the court case that overturned and eventually eliminated US export restrictions on cryptography, is that the subject of the case, Snuffle, was itself an attempt to bypass the regulations.

Often zamindars were Indian princes who lost their sovereignty due to British Rule ( see: Madras Zamindari ).

Often diamond holes will start off at a large diameter and when outside diameter is lost, thinner rods put down inside casing to continue, until finally the hole becomes too narrow.

Often left behind or lost along the way are North Korean children whose parents cannot return home or have separated or abandoned them.

Often, mothers do not know themselves to be anything except a mother, so when they are unable to provide maternal care for their children, or their children are taken away from them, they feel a lost sense of self.

Often, they are antiques or items of lost technology that were made either by hand or in extremely small numbers.

Often it is Pellinore who is assigned the task of taking care of whatever problem is plaguing Camelot, with Pip only coming in later after the poor old king gets himself hopelessly lost.

Often, some venues such as entertainment news programs like Entertainment Tonight will misuse the term ' lost episode ' or ' lost tapes ' in order to bring more attention to a feature story on something such as an older series or film, or an actor in their early years, using archive footage from their library, as if the footage was discarded after its first use.

Often the original Charter was later lost, however an Official Extract has the same legal status as the original Charter.

Often positions gained at very great cost would immediately be lost again for lack of infantry to consolidate.

Often, a new initiate will become " lost " by losing sentience and simply becoming a body and collection of memories for the Corps.

Often referred to as Verne's lost novel, the work, set in August 1960, paints a grim, dystopian view of a technological future civilization.