"I want to thank my team for standing by me through the thick and thin and this is also the best home crowd we have ever played for, " Tipsarevic said after his win in Belgrade.
Such lofty ambitions have now been drastically readjusted but the lowest- ranked team still standing in the FA Cup at the time of kick-off did their utmost to capitalise on a rare chance to test themselves against Premier League opposition.
Every one of my team that's standing alongside me here has the same sense of mission.
The Georgian team were given a standing ovation at Friday's opening ceremony.
Still, De Bontin says Henry's offensive prowess and global appeal of Henry have enhanced the team's international standing as well as the brand of beverage maker Red Bull, which bought the club in 2006 and also owns teams in Austria, Brazil and Germany.
Have entire team honor them with a standing ovation at the start of the next staff meeting.
Even though no charges have been pressed against Underwood, the incident definitely affected his standing on the team.
"We've not been standing still, " team boss Ross Brawn told BBC Sport.
Because of his long-standing connection to the team, the Giants are able to go directly to him for locker-room meals rather than the stadium's vendor, Delaware North.
Whether the punishment will, as NCAA President Mark Emmert stated, change the priorities of the university and the standing of its football team, remains to be seen, however.
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The current lawsuit proposes a new question of whether a fan has standing against a professional team alleging harm based on its internal decision to set its lineup.
Mozambique coach Augusto Matine has launched a major clear-out of his team, dropping several long-standing internationals from his squad to face Central African Republic in the African Nations Cup qualifiers on 8 September.
Most of the Mac's life, whoever was on team Mac could count on Steve Jobs standing behind them, telling them that their latest idea sucks, ranting that they'll have to do better.
Quite simply, while standing on the touchline watching his team play, the manager Johnson wants to be entertained.
Mr Fawzi said the advance team of 10 to 12 observers were "standing by to board planes and to get themselves on the ground as soon as possible".
Standing in their way are a Brazil team who are the second most prolific goal scorers in the competition, behind Ghana.
The Georgian team, wearing black armbands, were given a standing ovation at the ceremony and a minute's silence was impeccably observed in Vancouver.
Tom Frosch, the Blue Angels lead pilot and team commander, announced the news late Tuesday at the team's Pensacola Naval Air Station headquarters while standing in front of the one of the iconic blue-and-gold jets.
He was cheered by his ecstatic team-mates on the dressing room balcony and given a standing ovation by the 1, 100 spectators who were present.
Egyptian antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said the research suggests the boy king died after the wound became infected, and though not all of the team agreed with the assessment, all rejected the long-standing murder charge.
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U.S. first lady Laura Bush, who has a long-standing interest in Myanmar, urged the government to allow the team into the country, saying she expected Washington would provide "substantial" aid if it could conduct its own assessment of the situation on the ground.
To separate the effects of money from the effects of diet and choice of drink, Dr Barefoot, Dr Gronbaek and their team analysed data from a group of subjects who possessed similar financial means and social standing.
According to the Kansas State Collegian, the university revised the main page of the EcoKat website to remove photos of her and Willie the Wildcat standing together and edit out references to their eco-enforcing tag-team, although as of this writing the full EcoEnforcers page remains online as an orphan web page.
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Not only do you get a series of individual movies capable of standing up on their own right while cross-promoting each other, you get team-up movies that get to ride the accumulated hype of each character.
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First, the team measured the thickness of the fluid layer between the toe pad and the Petri dish that the frog was standing on.
On the terraces of the Yellow Wall, the 25, 000-fan standing section, they hardly ever sing for individual players, preferring instead to chant the name of the team continuously for 90 minutes.
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"We'd come out for the jump ball, and walking toward center court everybody is standing up and stomping their feet like 10, 000 kettle drums, " said Roosevelt Bouie, the team's leading scorer that season and with Louis Orr the cornerstone of Boeheim's first seasons as head coach.
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