In the U.S., by contrast, voters must get to know--and size up--aspirants during the presidential campaign itself.
It's not a typical, get-to-know-you kind of question, but it seems almost normal coming from Brann.
Another quick get-to-know-you meeting with U.S. President Bill Clinton may also be arranged soon, as is customary with any new Japanese leader.
It was a casual, get-to-know-you visit, a meeting of an up-and-coming photographer and four rising pop stars arranged through Beatles manager Brian Epstein.
Officials on both sides have played down expectations for any breakthroughs at the meeting, which they paint as being more of a get-to-know-you encounter.
In class, I focused on having lengthy get-to-know-you chats with the person next to me, passed notes to my people three rows over, and penned (ghostwrote) love letters for girlfriends to give to the object of their obsessions.
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Sheikh al-Baghdadi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, said that he had delayed the announcement of the formal merger with al-Nusra because he wanted to allow Syrians time to get to know al-Nusra on its own terms, without the inherent negative bias that would be caused by an early announcement of its ties to al Qaeda.
It didn't pay to get to know people - we knew each other based on where we were from, or we had nicknames.
Is it hard for you guys to -- after such a national tragedy -- to know when to get back to business full-time in terms of full steam ahead with the agenda when the nation is sad?
This involves not only the normal get-to-know you questions and technical tests of programming skill.
Both parents admit to difficulties trying to get to know their now-adult daughter.
All right, young lady -- next to you -- I know, I'm going to get to -- yes.
My role at the Manhattan Institute's "social entrepreneurship" award program leads me to get to know dozens of the non-governmental groups trying to help America's disadvantaged.
When you start to get tired -- and I know that you will -- when you start to think about taking a day off, I want you to remember that what we do for the next 21 days will absolutely make the difference between waking up the day after Election Day and wondering, could I have done more -- or feeling the promise of four more years.
Chinese firms are going global for the usual reasons: to acquire raw materials, get technical know-how and gain access to foreign markets.
Right now they're like heavily enforcing the curfew, so it's kind of even hard to get--you know, if they need beer here, it's hard for us to even go back to the other bar and get beer.
However, she did get to know her bosses better--giving an unanticipated boost to her career last year, after she moved back to New Hampshire, where her husband looks after their daughters, now ages 13 and 16.
But clinical trials to get drugs to people do take many years - you know, five, seven, 10 years.
They did talk about -- I need to get some specifics on -- I know they touched on voting rights and home rule.
My take: all this saber rattling about high royalties and windfall profits taxes is designed to scare the minnows out of the water and clear the way for the government to make a development deal with the big guys who have the balance sheet and know-how to get the job done.
To compile our estimates we talked to lawyers, agents, producers and other in-the-know folks to get information on earnings between May 2010 and May 2011.
They're candidates -- we don't know who's going to get the nomination -- they should be held to a high standard as well.
America's way of democracy thus obliges politicians to spend weeks hanging around diners in Iowa and New Hampshire (thanks to the caucuses and primaries) and then later to get to know some of the dullest parts of the mid-west (thanks to the concentration of swing states in the Rust Belt).
Yes, Mary gave birth to her first son -- a child who will never get to know his father.
So maybe that's going to be my - one of my goals to get people to know, to celebrate the three different Carminas.
To know how to get word-for-word the exact sound bite or quote you want in the final story.
"You get to know this world you live in -- it may be a terrible world, but it's the world you know, " he said.
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She wrote for the student blog, hung around online after class to get to know her professors, joined video-chat study groups after hours, and developed Facebook relationships with classmates.
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We also know that the people of Iowa have an important tradition and a valued tradition of being able to ask questions and lift the hood and kick the tire and get -- kick the tires and get to know the candidates.
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That's what the financial regulation bill tries to stop and charges the federal regulators with -- even if the Wall Street banks get -- we all know they have to be able to have more leverage than the traditional community banks tend to want up in the Dakotas or Arkansas or anyplace else.
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