And when the Cowboys halted the Steelers with a goal-line stand after Tomlin made the questionable decision to forgo a chip-shot field-goal attempt with 12 minutes 35 seconds remaining, the Cowboys seemed primed for their biggest victory of the season.
The unlucky cousin may feel entitled to her cut because she believes that by pumping all those quarters into the machine, she primed it for victory.
ARIZONA 81, BELMONT 64 In this uneven college basketball season filled with upsets and defined by inconsistency, perennially scrappy Belmont seemed primed for its first N.C.A.A. tournament victory, primed to bust a bracket, as many have long predicted.
Starring at the top of England's one-day batting order, Bell, whose three centuries played such a pivotal role in the 2013 Ashes victory, is primed for an important 12 months of international cricket.
The Atlanta Falcons led the San Francisco 49ers 27-24 and, with less than two minutes on the clock, Atlanta recovered an onside kick, priming the team for victory.
The battle for Hulu has come down to a few prime fighters hustling for victory.
Hand signals have a checkered history in politics, from Prime Minister Winston Churchill's V-for-victory sign to the famed photo of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller "giving the finger" to hecklers to the clenched-fist salute of "black power" to Lyndon Johnson's fondness for "pressing the flesh".
Roosevelt, with his boundless optimism, believed that he could preside at the birth of a better world, while the Prime Minister cared chiefly for victory over Hitler and preservation of the old one.
The National Alliance was the prime mover behind the vote for Victory, even sending in the deputy prime minister, Gianfranco Fini, to rally support.
And the candidate who appeared headed for victory as prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, 51, is under indictment by a countercorruption commission and could be removed from office if he fails in an appeal to the Constitutional Court.
