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We've been preparing for this all year. I felt comfortable, and I thought we were good from the get-go.

We've been preparing for the penalty phase for some time now.

We've been preparing for the elections for some time so we're glad the wait is finally over.

We've been preparing for such operations ever since 2003.

We've been preparing for Game 1, not the series or the season, but Game 1 for a long time. And when that's over we'll focus on Game 2. We want to prove to a lot of people what were made of. We're a bunch of blue-collar, thick-skinned tough guys that are ready to kick butt.

We've been knowing we can do it. Our coach has been telling us we can do it. He's been preparing us to get ready for these type of games.

Yes, we are preparing ourselves to use and apply the wet technology at any point, when needed.

You can't change Italian law. But everyone agrees that there could be a moratorium during the games. We are preparing legislation to put into effect exclusively during the games.

We had argued that those issues did not warrant litigation, but the board disagreed. We are pleased that the schedule has been set and the process is moving forward. We're preparing our case on the merits.

Tom and I had a few discussions and got an agreement signed. Flowe and the staff at Burningtree have been excellent to work with in preparing for the tournament. They are really wanting this to be first class. The tour has always wanted to play the Burningtree course.

Up until yesterday we were preparing an Olympics, starting today we are organizing.

We've got a great group of guys, great leaders who've focused on preparing for the playoffs. This is the time when you earn your stripes. We've put ourselves in good position; now we have to go prove it in the playoffs.

We have advised our field offices that there's no relation between what goes on in preparing the individual tax returns and the corporate returns.

This was going to be 80 minutes of good soccer, what turned out to be a 100 (minutes). . . . We're preparing for the playoffs, and this is good for us.

This was the first real endurance test, we encountered trouble but nothing we couldn't overcome. The engineers did a great job preparing for things that could go wrong. The car's rhythm was really good, it was fun to really blast the car around the track.

We cannot but welcome this effort of the Secretary General. It is something the President of the Republic himself has repeatedly requested from the Secretary General. Our effort is to avoid a hasty new process of negotiations,which would fail in no time, because that would be a catastrophe for Cyprus. That is why we are insisting on properly preparing the ground, creating the necessary conditions so that when a new process begins there would truly be realistic prospects to lead this process to an agreed solution and this is what we expect the UN Secretary General to do.

We cannot ask British pilots to patrol the no-fly zones and not act when we see Saddam Hussein preparing to shoot them down. That is why we took the action yesterday.

We don't see any impact. We are busily preparing for trial.

What was going to happen, I had no clue. I can't control what's going on there, but I was definitely preparing myself to play and hopefully have a fun week.

What this mission buys us is an early attempt at getting to know what some of the resources are there that have large implications on what we do in future exploration, especially in the near term as we go and do the missions to the Moon and as we're preparing to go . . . to Mars. We know for sure that for human exploration to succeed, we're going to have to learn eventually to live off the land.

We're planning on playing Saturday. We're still days out. What is it, the cone of concern? It doesn't look very good. But anyway, whatever we'll need to do, we'll need to do. We're preparing as if we're playing Friday or Saturday.

We sound an alarm, a call to arms and a wake-up call to the world. A world in which an extreme and evil regime denies the Holocaust, while preparing the next one.

We've been talking about it for so long, it's great to actually be in that situation. We spent months preparing for a game, doing things for a game. But now, it's more specific. We're preparing for Texas Tech.

We just recently finished a facilities study and that will go a long way with preparing us.

We just had to play to the next level. We've been preparing for it, and we want to take it. We want to go to the championship game.

We were prepared for (the Southington press). We spent all day (Wednesday) in practice preparing for the press.

We might talk about that a little when we get down there, but we've mainly been focused on preparing and just trying to get better.

We might have lost some of our most seasoned and experienced players but we have acquired some senior players too during the off-season. We have also been i9n camp for the past five to six weeks preparing for this African Safari, so I am confident that the team has great potential.

We will not enter a new truce while our people are surrounded and are preparing for a new round of conflict.

When it happened, he stayed in the next play. After that he went off to the side. But I'm still preparing the same way. You have to be ready for everything.

We felt to improve the performance of the 88 team it was important to establish a leadership that has been lacking for the last few months, ... Todd has a record that speaks for itself both with preparing race cars and making decisions in the pits. Todd has the skills, ability and talent to lead a race team, and he is committed to winning races.

We help them by assisting them with their skills and preparing their job search.

We're going to be preparing for the second half of district, and for Carthage on Friday. Every night it's been tough. It's one of those cases where you can't take anyone lightly.

We're going into this game thinking worst-case scenario that Christen doesn't play. We go into the week like every week preparing our kids the best we can for whoever is on the field. I'd like to think that we're not a one-man team. There are a lot of people out there who do think that Hilliard Davidson will go as Christen Haywood goes, but our kids have a lot of pride and they'll do a good job in preparing themselves no matter who's playing.

Volatilities have also been bid up across the curve and with the yen having breached key technical levels, it now appears to be preparing for an attempt at testing its September 1998 low of 129.03 against the dollar,

You have to put a lot of drill work in. A lot of your focus is put on things you don't see every day, like counters coming back off of it, play-option passes coming off it. They're always (blocking) at your legs. It's totally different than preparing for the typical team you play.

We should be preparing right now, setting appropriations, for the introductions of Bradley fighting vehicles, tanks, armored personnel carriers and ground forces into Kosovo,

We had several video sessions when we were preparing for the match,

We couldn't think of a better way to celebrate 125 years of God's grace to our church than preparing a seminary student to become a pastor.

BP's support for this initiative is the single largest community investment we have ever made in California. In order to meet the challenge of preparing the next generation for scholastic success, we believed unprecedented steps were required. After the success of the first season, it is clear that our investment is making a meaningful difference in the lives of Californians.

Even though there are many hardships, the fact that Iraqis continue to vote in large numbers and are preparing for free and fair elections is indeed inspirational,

East Harris County is truly a great place to live, work and raise a family. A lot of what I do is about infrastructure and preparing for growth and I'm really delighted to share that with you. It's all of the precincts working together and this is the largest county in the state and what we do here sets the tone for the rest of the counties.

Big institutions are preparing for the fiscal year end, so there are few sellers in the market.

As the science shifts, the work force needs shift. We need to be working with the education community to make sure they're preparing students to meet our future needs.

Assuming fair rules, we will submit my name for candidacy (at the May 20 convention). In addition, supporters are preparing petitions.

As I speak, the office is preparing to interview them, but it will be premature of me to say that they will be charged.

At Oregon, we were on the quarter system and didn't start school until September, so we'd play three games before school started. One year, I lost a game at Ohio State and went back to two-a-days the next week. You can't do that anymore. You used to be able to outwork somebody in preparing for a game, but now everybody's limited to the same amount of time.

Committee for the Task Force will be formed within next 15 days and accordingly start working for preparing a detailed report, comprising barriers and prospects of business between India and Bangladesh.

Dirk does such a great job at preparing his team. We knew they were going to come out with a lot of fire.

Counting sage grouse and preparing paper plans is nice, but the way to protect the sage grouse is to conserve and improve the habitat, and the primary way to do that is to remove livestock.

Currently we're working on a damage assessment before they knock the building down, and we're preparing a draft budget for replacement of the building.

Each game we approach like a final. Today it was the opening game at home, we won and showed outstanding football qualities. We will be preparing for the next game the same way.

Each day I am asked to do the job as captain I go about preparing for it not just in the short term but also in the long term. There is a responsibility to deal not just with what is happening now but also look ahead.

Duane started as our defensive backs coach and has become more and more involved with the defense each year. Since he moved into the co-coordinator spot last year, he has played a key role in developing game plans and preparing one of the most successful defenses in the country.

Fed officials have given no indication that they will pause at this meeting. But they may indicate in the statement that they are preparing to pause at the November meeting.

There was a lot of excitement coming into game, ... We were preparing all summer long for this team. We'll take the win.

There was a cultural clash that didn't recognize the absolute inherent science of preparing for a disaster. Any time you break that cycle ... you're doomed to failure.

There's no doubt the market is on the defensive and is preparing for what appears to be inevitable. A rate hike at the August policy meeting later this month.

There's no doubt part of the charter that we have is preparing for the future and that's always in the back of our mind as well.

There's not a whole lot you have to do as far as preparing for a bunch of different stuff. You don't have to worry about who is lining up where. We have to motivate our kids and get them to compete. They've got to stay low and not get driven off the ball.

The tough part is having two teams to prepare for and finding out with one day left who our opponent is. Luckily for us, they're preparing for someone else and we're not even on their screen.

The tragedy of Katrina wasn't the failure to predict the track or to predict the intensity of the storm. The tragedy was in preparing people and in particular predicting human behavior.

The time of preparing is rapidly moving into time of action,

I started preparing Wolfram long ago because there was practically no stage time and no rehearsals at the Met, just a week. Luckily I'm a quick learner.

I should think the taxpayers would be upset if they thought we weren't preparing to help out the citizens in case of a catastrophic event.

I've been preparing to be a drum major since I was a freshman. I always wanted to be more actively involved with the music and success of the band.

I've been preparing for this for awhile bit it's hitting me now. I am an emotional guy, really.

I've been preparing as though he would be coming out and I've been proven right.

I've been preparing and carrying myself as the starter for a while now. So it's kind of every day stuff now.

The Salvation Army is preparing to respond to two of the largest natural disasters in our nation's history, simultaneously, ... Our sole focus is to ensure that our resources are safe and in place to meet the immediate needs of people affected by Rita, and to ensure that our care for Katrina survivors continues unimpeded.

The rovers went through all of the Martian seasons and are back to late summer. We're preparing for the challenge of surviving another Martian winter.

These schools and the attitude of my parents towards these schools were important in preparing me for the work of an experimental scientist.

These race teams are in the midst of preparing for a very important part of their seasons. But we would hope to see four or five of the cars here for the test.

The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you're eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It's very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply, without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself.

The team is excited to get on the field and start preparing for this weekend's matches. We will be facing two of the top teams in the nation, and that will only benefit us as regular season play approaches.

The swimmers are excited to perform at home and have family and friends see them at the state level. This meet will require many volunteer hours and our team is excited and preparing to host a great event.

The swelling has gone down and the range of motion has come back, but it's still sore. I will have to pad up and protect. I do want to play. I'm preparing to play, but it's whatever they want me to do.

The thing I like the best about this group is how focused everybody is and how hard each gymnast is working so early in preparing for the season. They are not afraid to tell each other that the effort needs to be picked up at times, because this group has the mentality that it is not about everybody not about individuals. They are very excited about learning and listening to each other and the coaches.

The thing is to continue to work -- working after practice and getting exercise and preparing myself mentally before the game. Just continue to get better and continue to make strides. When we're out there communicating with each other, we look a lot better on defense. If I help get my team the win, I feel good after the game.

I've never been one to quit and I'm not about to quit now. I'll keep competing and preparing as if I was the starter.

I've learned to accept the fact that my students are far too busy preparing for their own legal careers to care one bit about the off-campus antics of Professor Burke. I get the impression that my students are vaguely aware of my novels, but are at best mildly curious.

Sometimes you get so into preparing for games and you don't get to work on the fundamentals. I think it's nice to have some extended breaks at this time of the year.

Telecom service providers worldwide are following Asia's lead in preparing their networks for Voice over IP, and they are clearly picking up the pace of deployment. The most notable acceleration has come from European service providers. They have stimulated tremendous demand for broadband access over the past year or two, and now they are preparing for the next step of Voice-over-Broadband.

Tennessee is a young and very talented team. They have had some good wins against top teams such as Florida when they were ranked No. 5 in the country. Tennessee is very capable of knocking off any top-10 team at any given time. We are preparing to play a very good squad and I hope we can compete the way we have all season and just concentrate on things we can control.

Ten days ago I had planned to speak to you again about a very important subject -- energy, ... But as I was preparing to speak, I began to ask myself the same question that I now know has been troubling many of you. Why have we not been able to get together as a nation to resolve our serious energy problem?

Sometimes people don't know these workers exist. They don't really look at how that hamburger appeared on their plate. It comes from agricultural work that these undocumented immigrants do, to washing the dishes, to preparing the food.

Safety is a big part of preparing my ranch for the busy times ahead, and preventing injuries is a good way to have a truly successful season.

Right now we're preparing like we're not going to have him. The most important thing for him is to take care of his family. That's the top priority.

Right now we're preparing for every possibility. We really don't know what to expect. We're looking at a lot of different tapes, looking at different options. We're previewing what we think might be, but you never know what might be out there with a new coach in the first game of the season.

Right now we're just preparing the site. We'll probably have that work finished up by October.

Right now, the only thing that is different is that I'm not preparing to go to spring training. I just don't know how I'll feel when it gets to be reporting day, though.

Pretty much everything shipped over the last few years will be able to run Vista, and the stuff shipping now will be running it at the top level. Microsoft does a good job of preparing everybody.

preparing us for Miami. Just what we needed.

Preparing the roe is a very exacting process. It has to be brined in multiple stages, in a specific fashion. We don't do that here -- it all has to be processed in Japan.

Preparing the mind for the work week grind...

Preparing the markets for a rate hike is a process in which the Fed gradually has to back away from its unduly pessimistic stance of recent months. This will take some time, but the process is now underway.

Preparing in the last three days, we knew that we had to play our style and have them adapt to us, and for awhile we were able to do that.

Preparing for the Games requires a team effort: the group named today as Coordination Commission can be expected to make a significant contribution to that effort, on behalf of the IOC.

Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long.

Practicing general fire safety and preparing and practicing emergency exit plans are essential to aid in preventing fires and fire fatalities.