But when a team is in the World Cup final against an opponent that has said it is prepared to win ugly, it has no choice but to defend itself and show that it will not be intimidated.
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Her Pheu Thai party, which is the third incarnation of a party founded by her brother, the former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, was prepared to win it.
"Any time they need me, I just want to be prepared to win the game," said Veras, who signed as a minor league free agent in December 2005.
"This is the first time I feel coming into a Grand Slam tournament that I'm prepared to win it," he said last week.
Confident of success, the members of the AEA informed the Aero Club of America that they were prepared to win the Scientific American Trophy, which would be awarded to the first American airplane completing a flight of at least 1 km (3,280 feet).
But most of all, Mr. Ballmer didn't realize – though he had been warned by his advisers – that when you make a blockbuster unsolicited offer, you must be prepared to win.
