Though in the informal setting etiquette dictated no bows, Mr. Shimabukuro's head kept bobbing up and down involuntarily.

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To improve confidence, we set up a social club to supplement our teaching activities, to allow for free conversation in an informal setting.

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The G8 used to be for leaders of the main economies to chew the fat in an informal setting, without agendas or advisers, and he wants it to be more like that again.

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To help their people cope, a group of educated young Masai are setting up informal classes under thorn bushes.

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In 1963, at the age of forty-six, he made up for it by setting up his own informal school in a London railway station, teaching half a dozen teenagers in exchange for a little tobacco or a second-hand art book.

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The most obvious, and hardest to control, is the agenda-setting before the vote and the informal discussions that take place between ballots.

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The General Assembly has taken the responsible step of setting up an Open-Ended Informal Working Group on Marine Biodiversity in Areas beyond National Jurisdiction.

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Setting aside academic expertise, he suggests an informal chat over drinks or lunch.

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