And did it ever occur to you that Pelosi's purpose in backing Murtha was not to settle an old score with Hoyer, but rather to send a message to Bush about Iraq? (voices.washingtonpost.com)
There were the Kaczy?ski brothers, Jaros?aw and Lech, respectively prime minister and president some five years ago, whose talk about settling old scores seemed to Michnik excessive. (firstthings.com)
On the contrary, the humiliated child's desire for total revenge is the real engine that drives these books, which are not only about deferred vengeance (Cromwell's revenge on his enemies) but are themselves Mantel's own long - deferred, carefully plotted strategy for settling old scores. (firstthings.com)