But a team insider told BBC Sport they had been pleasantly surprised by their competitiveness.
This is a different team, but a team that should win a lot of games.
But a team at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh is exploring how to make robots more engaging over the long term.
But a team made up almost entirely of owners will be unbeatable.
This milestone piece of machinery is little more than scraps at this point, but a team at the UK's National Museum of Computing is working to build a working replica.
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So far, President Barack Obama is not surrounding himself with a team of rivals for his second term but with a team of loyal allies.
But a sports team is not a cult, and Penn State is not some extreme religious order tucked away in a far-off country, protected by a powerful Pope.
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Not a faceless call center employee, but a dedicated team member, who just happens to be half a world away.
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There's a couple of other people that the boys have spoke to but as a team we've basically said we want a bit lower so we'll see where they come in alright?
"I know when you play a bad international, I accept it and put my hand up, but as a team we didn't perform either, apart from probably Jason Robinson, " he stated.
The top stars of soccer have seen their salaries climb to record levels since the turn of the century, a reflection of the drawing power these modern-day entertainers wield, but if a team were to be selected of the eleven best performers, who would be included?
But a college team offers far more: not just the colors, the region and the mascot but educational values, professional ties, group and community associations, old friends and memories.
"But our head of PE Jeremy Evans told him he had already signed for a team, but it wasn't a rugby league team!"
But banning a team or banning a game of cricket, will that change the situation in Zimbabwe?
But for a team to lose 83% of its wickets to the slow men over five Test matches is almost unprecedented.
People are obviously going to start referring back to the triumph of 2003 but as a team we went into this tournament in a very different position from four years ago.
But as a team their opponents look formidable.
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There was pessimism about prospects for getting anything back, except by buying it in bits and pieces on the black market, but a small team of curators arrived in Baghdad six months after the ceasefire.
The real solution to the challenge of replacing Jobs may lie in a change of thinking: in coming to see the Jobs-shaped hole as something to be filled, not by one individual, but by a team.
But if a team that only has one or two true candidates for postseason awards can easily stand serious injuries to three players who hit nearly a third of their home runs the year before without it crushing their chances at the playoffs, that team has been put together fairly well.
In comparison, companies like Seven Cycles, which I swear by, Serotta, and Independent Fabrication (IF) make true made-to-measure custom bikes, but employ a team of frame builders, and you can get them in a matter of months, not years, and know how much it is going to cost.
The prime minister, Ivars Godmanis, is a heavyweight, but lacks a competent team.
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The 39-year-old acknowledged the approach is a risky, but natural for a team that has older players who have won before.
Instead he chose to go to a team where he would be one of three superstars in Miami, but also to a team where he thought he would win an NBA title, something that was missing in his illustrious career.
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"Brooklyn wasn't looking for a championship team overnight, but they were looking for a team that was going to be hard working, competitive and relevant, " Yormark said.
The investigating team will continue to collect evidence, but under a new team.
Now, that's a low bar, given -- (laughter.) But there was a team from Tennessee that had designed a self-powered water filtration plant so that homes in Appalachia could have access to clean water.
"They're a different team without Derrick Rose obviously, but this is a blue collar team, a hard-working team and they rely really on their defense, " Johnson said.
The 29-year-old's pre-season was hampered by a thigh injury but he completing a reserve team match against Bolton on Monday.
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