Some Democrats think their party's agonising selection process will produce a battle-hardened nominee backed by legions of fired-up supporters.
Cook was there, and batting well, but he had already seen Andrew Strauss and Michael Vaughan fall to a fired-up Makhaya Ntini on Sunday evening.
With the pressure off, the shackles were well and truly removed from the hosts, who were the more fired-up of the two sides throughout.
In front of its fired-up fans, Detroit scored a run in the first and second innings and was held scoreless in the next two.
With Connacht 20-3 down at half-time, a massive home win looked on the cards but Michael Bradley's side came out fired-up after the break.
But the innings ended suddenly after the new ball was taken with Jason Lewry comprehensively bowling Balcombe and then last man James Tomlinson was yorked by a fired-up Collymore.
First a fired-up Johnson looped a header just past the post, before Jerome was hauled down by Steve Gohouri just outside the area in the dying seconds of the half.
It was a much more fired-up president who appeared for Tuesday's town hall-style forum at Hofstra University on Long Island to take questions from an audience of 80 undecided voters.
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On Saturday, he disappointed Florida Republicans when he spoke for just five minutes at a state party rally after his rivals said each given fired-up speeches that lasted much longer.
But bear in mind the possibility that they are right - that the fired-up Republican base will not only turn out, but will inspire, cajole and annoy others to do so.
Villa boss Martin O'Neill showed little respect as he angrily pursued referee Halsey down the tunnel at half-time and his team certainly came out fired-up for the start of the second period.
But Wasps did well to come back against a fired-up Bristol side who attacked and defended right in the face of the European champions, shackling their rising star Dan Cipriani at fly-half.
Diouf's ball into Speed's path soon after deserved better than the Welshman's clumsy header over the crossbar, but it was a rare attack by a team under the cosh from their fired-up opponents.
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Pontypridd went into the game boasting a 100% record in the league this season but found themselves under continual pressure from Neath's fired-up pack in which Davies, Duncan Jones and Andrew Millward were outstanding.
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It proved to be the wrong decision as a fired-up Leicester came back at the hosts, and Humphreys' try - after he collected his own chip ahead - finally got them on the scoreboard.
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The Television Match Official ruled he had lost control in the act of touching down but a fired-up Munster pack turned over possession at the scrum and were awarded an attacking scrum of their own.
The scrum-half then sniped over from a five-metre scrum to score the first try of the match and although he missed the conversion a second penalty gave the fired-up visitors an 11-3 lead after 11 minutes.
The pressure of a potential Grand Slam seemed to be weighing heavily on Irish shoulders in the first half at Murrayfield, while a fired-up Scotland came out determined to record only their second win of the campaign.
Carter-Williams made a steal and soared in for a dunk, Cooney connected on another 3 from the right corner and when Trawick was called for charging, the fired-up Orange bounced back to the bench as Boeheim clapped his approval.
As soon as I saw the image on the back of the camera I fired-up my laptop and quickly wired it to our editors with minutes to spare before I was needed to photograph Jessica receiving her gold medal.
Pietersen made only two more runs after the first appeal before falling lbw to the fired-up Siddle but Prior went on to form a formidable partnership with Jonathan Trott as England finished the day on 444-5, 346 ahead of the hosts.
With a fired-up team possessing a fresh set of downs inside the red zone, the bears looked like a shoe-in to put the ball in the end zone in the early going Monday and to effectively break the game wide open.
Or perhaps it is because this administration did little in the early stages of the debate to engage and activate a "fired-up and ready to go" base of young people that saw health care reform as a top concern at the polls.
While attacks on Obama's economic polices are nothing new for Romney, his near-singular focus on trying to show the president's failings lent his convention speech the air of a fired-up campaign rally, rather than a sweeping address designed to rouse the base along with undecided voters.
So let me ask you all one last thing, because I know you're already fired up -- (applause) -- but are you in?
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And I just want you to know that the grassroots work that you all are doing to get people focused and fired up -- that work is at the core of everything we do in this campaign.
But the Fed-fed inflation fired up the housing boom to white-hot levels.
While gas-fired power plants are popping up like dandelions across America, just one coal-fired generator was brought on line in the first half of 2012, the EIA reports.
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McDerment also fired up a blog--called "Fresh Thinking"--to keep customers even more up to date, on everything from new products and services to his own thoughts on the online billing industry at large.
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