He did not sound like a player ready to hand the baton to the 24-year-old Serb.
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Although the Doctor is ready to hand over Jex to the gunslinger, Amy gives him a talking-to, and he instead defends Jex.
The European Commission said it was ready to hand over data about airline passengers with the United States after Washington offered "adequate" privacy safeguards.
But not all were ready to hand Sony the console-wars victory.
And as Keegan walked off with a chorus of catcalls ringing in his ears after England's dismal effort, he was ready to hand his resignation to shocked FA officials.
It was no coincidence, perhaps, that Mr Berlusconi then seemed to find fresh enthusiasm for the rough and tumble of political life - having previously hinted that he, too, was ready to hand over to a younger man.
But with the calls for excluding even large depositors from bail-ins, it also underscores how governments aren't quite ready to hand off control over how to protect their voters' savings, even if it comes at the expense of these voters' taxes.
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On July 8, 2010, when LeBron made his announcement on a dorky, drawn-out, one-hour ESPN extravaganza with Jim Gray, many pundits immediately were ready to hand the 2011 NBA title to the Heat because of the Big Three of LeBron, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.
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More men were having to cook for themselves and ready meal producers were on hand to make it as easy for them as possible.
G7 leaders appear ready to lend a helping hand to Japan as it attempts to stabilize its economy, financial markets, and currency.
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That is one of the reasons why Italian cooks are often compared to designers: On one hand you have the heritage of great ready-to-eat products like pizza, mozzarella, Parmesan, Parma ham, then on the other hand people like me.
Immediately upon graduation, newly minted doctors arrive, diplomas in hand, ready to take up their resident duties.
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It seemed like landscapers stood by, blowers in hand, ready to catch the leaves as they fell from the stately maple trees on campus.
Constraints include a lack of on-hand ready-to-build lots (the price of pre-developed land lots has skyrocketed), tight lending standards for small to mid-sized builders, and a notable shortage of construction workers since tradesmen fled the city several years ago and have not returned.
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Notebook and pencil were in hand, I was ready to grab any trends, cliches and buzzwords I could get.
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"I am announcing today a new approach to hand baggage security that will be introduced progressively as airports are ready to handle the extra capacity, so we can pass the benefits on to the passenger as quickly as possible, " she said.
With snowploughs, shovels and smartphones to hand, the city is ready for the stormy blast.
"We have the right solution in hand, and we are ready to go, " he added.
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He had his rosaries in his hand, ready for the pope to bless them.
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Then I shook his hand and let a chat flow, ready to leave him alone if it seemed I was getting on his nerves.
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Finally, when the block is ready to be used, it is covered with ink and pressed by hand onto paper to print the final image.
The blacksmith had the ramrod out and he was shoving it into the muzzle, pumping and pumping and pumping furiously, his hand already on the trigger, and he was ready to fire, strangely calm with the tiger there, almost on him, its whiskers so close and surprisingly bright and rigid.
Teixeira saw the team's hand specialist earlier Friday and was told he is not ready to start swinging a bat and needs to strengthen his injured wrist.
If, on the other hand, the oil price goes up, the firm is ready to pump.
As a result, HTC was ready when Western firms came looking for somebody to design and manufacture high-end hand-helds and mobile phones for them.
The hand-built proto unit we played with wasn't really ready to have its ergonomics judged properly, but iriver has plenty of time until the expected May launch to iron out any kinks.
And so, seated at my Jerusalem window last year, ready to at last look back and write, I was familiar with the task at hand, the need to gather information and to then look for patterns in it.
OEMs, on the other hand, can take advantage of these ready-made apps and offer them to their customers in an instant.
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In a warning to Israel earlier this week, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said his militia "is ready and has its hand on the trigger" in the event of an Israeli attack on any targets in Lebanon.
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