Often, a gag character's usage is for only one joke.

Often, as a running gag, he gets nosebleeds when he gets stimulated.

Often, in a running gag, Piggy will discover something strange and attempt to inform his larger companion, who then responds by saying " Shut up Piggy!

Often this involves stressing what are now conservative views of free-market economics and belief in individual responsibility, with social liberal views on defence of civil rights, environmentalism and support for a limited welfare state.

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 these books follow a formula where the first chapter involves Brown solving a case at the dinner table for his father, the local police chief in the fictional town of Idaville.

Often this involves adjusting and maintaining the shape of the fire.

Often, as a last resort if other treatments have failed, the most common procedure is prosthetic implants which involves the insertion of artificial rods into the penis.

Often involves ad-hockery and verges on being a crock.

Often but not always, this involves an authority, who does the controlling.

Often color in printmaking that involves etching, screenprinting, woodcut, or linocut is applied by either using separate plates, blocks or screens or by using a reductionist approach.

Often folding involves first the establishment of regular secondary and supersecondary structures, in particular alpha helices and beta sheets, and afterward tertiary structure.

Often, a plaintiff can bring a matter either to state court or to federal court, because it arises under federal law, or involves a substantial monetary dispute ( in excess of $ 75, 000 as of October 26, 2007 ) arising under state law between parties that do not reside in the same state.

Often this involves considering as " transactions " not only the obvious cases of buying and selling, but also day-to-day emotional interactions, informal gift exchanges, etc.

" Often the problem involves not reproducing " it " identically, but with controlled, incremental changes.

Often it involves the trusted individual embezzling only a small proportion or fraction of the total of the funds or resources he / she receives or controls ; in an attempt to minimize the risk of the detection of the misallocation of the funds or resouces.

Often criticism involves active disagreement, but it may only mean " taking sides ".

Often the quest is given to the protagonist through the realm's magic mirror ( the first game involves obtaining the magic mirror, that becomes an important feature in the later games ).

Often, e-commerce involves the application of knowledge management systems.

Often the design of a quantizer involves supporting only a limited range of possible output values and performing clipping to limit the output to this range whenever the input exceeds the supported range.

Often, the procedure involves both a pill-form laxative and a bowel irrigation preparation with the polyethylene glycol powder dissolved into any clear liquid, preferably a sports drink which contain electrolytes.

Often this involves a piece of stem that is treated with rooting liquid or powder containing hormones.

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, the first indication that a victim's wallet has been stolen is a phone call from a credit card issuer asking if the person has gone on a spending spree ; the simplest form of this theft involves stealing the card itself and charging a number of high-ticket items to it in the first few minutes or hours before it is reported as stolen.

Often, such derivitization involves the reduction of one of the carbonyl groups, producing the aldol subunit.

Often this involves stressing free-market economics and belief in individual responsibility together with the defense of civil rights, environmentalism and support for a limited welfare state.

Often this involves a homestay with a family who speak only the target language.

Often, there will be smaller rooms called " isolation booths " present to accommodate loud instruments such as drums or electric guitar, to keep these sounds from being audible to the microphones that are capturing the sounds from other instruments, or to provide " drier " rooms for recording vocals or quieter acoustic instruments.

Often several guitarists playing individual notes may create chord patterns while mixing these " harmonies " with mixed unison passages creating unique sound effects with sound altering electronic special effects such as doublers or a " chorus " effect that over-pronounce the lead significantly sometimes to cut through to be heard in loud shows or throw its sound aesthetically both acoustically or electronically.

Often, the patient's sleep partner also benefits from markedly improved sleep quality, due to the amelioration of the patient's loud snoring.

Often, the bird takes off with a loud clattering.

Often airports employ a type of bird scarer that operates on propane to cause a noise loud enough to scare away any birds that might be in the vicinity.

" Often called " Chicken Taylor " because of his reference to himself as a " mere chicken in the law ," he is described by Sir Spencer Walpole as " a pompous barrister, with a little body and a loud voice.

Often one signal can capacitively couple with another and cause what appears to be noise.

Often preceded by warbling, carolling is pitched between 6 and 8 kHz and has 4 – 5 elements with slurring indistinct noise in between.

Often the improvement can be achieved without penalty because the DAC noise floor tends to dominate system performance.

Often Gaussian noise or Poisson statistics are assumed.

Often teleseismic events can be picked up only by seismometers that are in low background noise locations ; whereas, in general, a tremor of a magnitude 5. 3 earthquake can be seen anywhere in the world with modern seismic instruments.

Often, the probability distribution may be derived from physical models that explicitly show how the measured data depends on the parameters to be estimated, and how the data is corrupted by random errors or noise.

Often used in a local dish called poke ( pronounced POH-keh ) in which case it is called " tako poke ".

Often, the instruction to be fetched must be retrieved from relatively slow memory, causing the CPU to stall while waiting for the instruction to be returned.

Often the affected population is transferred by force to a distant region, perhaps not suited to their way of life, causing them substantial harm.

Often lurk in the nearby river, causing consternation to unsuspecting fishermen or dogs.

Often, when one of the members was scheduled to give a performance, the rest of the Pack would show up for an impromptu show, causing much excitement among audiences, resulting in return visits.

Often, all the ombudsman has to do is warn someone to stop causing a nuisance.

Often, a piper will over-squeeze the bag while still exhaling, causing a pipe to cease to sound or to vary its tone and pitch.

Often the software developers of drivers and applications had insufficient experience with creating programs for the ' new ' system, thus causing many errors which have been generally described as " system errors " by users, even if the error is not caused by parts of Windows or DOS.

Often, since facial neoplasms have such an intimate relationship with the facial nerve, removing tumors in this region becomes perplexing as the physician is unsure how to manage the tumor without causing even more palsy.

Often, combined sewers can not handle the volume of runoff, resulting in combined sewer overflows and causing water pollution problems in nearby water bodies.

Often these are harmless and more often hilarious pranks, but sometimes the pranks can be taken too far, causing serious problems such as damage to school property and resulting in arrests and large fines.

Often the scores given by the jurors are questioned, both by fans, as by members of schools who are harmed, causing many complaints after the show.

* Often associated with too steep angles causing Goose Rump