Sentences with phrase «settling old scores»

This is not a time to be settling old scores, your child's future is what matters now.

The 10 Best Video Games of 2017 (Jake Swearingen / Vulture - ARTICLE)» # 10 - Hard - drinking criminal fixers knock around the backwaters of the galaxy, pulling off heists and settling old scores.

It's about settling old scores against religious leaders, institutions, parents and the greatest villains of all - time — «straight white men of privilege,» he wrote.

He also pleaded for Whelan to stop settling old scores saying the party has elections to fight next May in Scotland, Wales and in the English councils.

«Shrovetide football is called a friendly game,» said Mark Heath, one of the dozens of bobbies on hand for this year's festivities, «but it's really about settling old scores.»

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.

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.

Past and present German football officials may be taking advantage of the 2006 slush fund speculation to settle old scores.

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?

But then gain «Rudy» will support a «Ham Sandwich» if he feels it is to his advantage or to settle an old score.

Noticed that all guns have been turned on Osborne by the Labour party in recent weeks, trying to play catch up and settle old scores with the strategic mastermind behind the decision to undermine Gordon Brown before he reached No10.

Another part lies in a need to settle old scores, especially with the Nazis.

Hall, Axe's fixer, develops a mole inside the US Attorney's office, while Axe makes an aggressive move under the guise of a charitable contribution in order to settle an old score.

A mysterious young woman rides into the lawless town of Redemption to settle an old score that has haunted her since she was a child.

His archrival Kaiser Taikai has to settle an old score with him... Explore the home planet of the Power Plant P...

The documentary also seems determined to settle old scores with Colonel Parker, who died in 1997 and whose management of Presley's career is portrayed here as cruelly constrictive and creatively tragic, choosing for his client a path strewn with cornball movies and, in the final years, Las Vegas servitude.

While Dorothy struggles with the revelation, she is forced to confront The Wicked Witch of the West, who has descended upon the Big Apple, determined to settle an old score.

There, Captain Hook, his henchman Smee, and their band of rowdy pirates plan to settle an old score with Pan.

What most consistently keeps our attention, though, is Rodriguez» cast of colorful stock characters, which runs the gamut from the vengeful mariachi to the CIA agent playing every side to the career rat of a presidential assistant to the retired G - man looking to settle an old score to Mickey Rourke.

As he forages for food one evening with the hopes of placating the increasingly restless men, Cookie stumbles over Henry Brown, a man on the run from violent Russians looking to settle an old score.

Now his twin brother Joshua is back in town, seeking to settle old scores and claim his half of the Wells birthright.

The combat system, while lacking the depth of Street Fighter, was smooth, fast and incredibly fun and diverse, and taking it online and battling friends is the perfect way to settle some old scores.

Looking to settle an old score, Satan has returned to bring about the apocalypse as an act of final revenge for his previous defeat, and Dracula must face him head on as the fight between good and evil comes to a dramatic end.

Compete against your mates to settle old scores, or take on the best managers in the world.

This is now your turn to settle old scores and show your friends who will be the king of the Iron Fist.

His archrival Kaiser Taikai has to settle an old score with him... Explore the home planet of the Power Plant P...

In his keenness to settle old scores, Robert Hughes forgets to disclose anything very interesting about himself in Things I Didn't Know, says Peter Conrad.

Try to remember that you're trying to establish a new co-parenting relationship, not settle old scores.

Not exact matches

Yes, citizens have a right to know «about the people who poisoned their lives» without being mired in a near - industrialized settling of old scores in «games organized by the Great Lustrator.»

Assuming that Wenger does agree that the 26 - year old forward who has settled right in to English football and scored 14 Premier League goals in his first season at this level at a rate of better than a goal every other game, would actually improve the goal shy Arsenal attack, there would still be a few obstacles in the way of Arsenal signing him.

The 28 - year - old Ulsterman may not have received the memo, as he scuffled to a 5 - over score on his first six holes at the Open Championship before settling in to finish the day at 1 - over 71.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

3 Will old scores be settled?

I don't care if we beat City and Spurs... we have old, in fact, very old scores to settle with United.

After a tough settling in period at Old Trafford, the ex-Bilbao man has begun to find his feet in the Barclays Premier League during the last month and scored a brace in United's 3 - 1 win against Aston Villa last Saturday, which lifted the club into third pace in the table.

Compared with former AC Milan star Kaka, the 21 - year - old settled quickly at Stamford Bridge, scoring some stunning goals against Juventus in the Champions League, and linking up with Juan Mata and Eden Hazard in a skillful attacking trio for the Blues.

Anyone who is claimed has the option of trying to put up a fight or taking what is coming to him and, whether it is the settling of an old score (vendettas are waged with Sicilian intensity) or a casual encounter, a claim may end in bloody death in the gutter.

The most likely scenario is that Vincent Janssen will come in as a second choice starter, but looking at his ability and goals scored last season for AZ Alkmaar, the 22 - year - old looks to be a natural finisher, and if he manages to bring that form to White Hart Lane, he should have no problem settling in and pushing Harry Kane for a starting spot.

upon his arrival in 2010, Hernandez settled quickly and was instrumental in bringing the 19th title to Old Trafford scoring memorable goals along the way.

Possessing arguably the strongest squad in world football provides Carlo Ancelotti to bring more success to the Santiago Bernabau, yet there are old scores to be settled during the upcoming season.

Theo Zwanziger, freed from the diplomatic constraints of being German football federation president, has been settling scores in a book and interviews with old enemies such as Uli Hoeness.

Nick Bidwell's Notes from Germany: old scores being settled off the pitch and a new milestone for Bayern on it

Unfortunately no goals were scored by either teams until the final 90 minutes was over as both sides were forced to settle for a 0 - 0 draw and must decide everything in the second leg at Old Trafford.

Sources close to Cuomo say he fears the notoriously aggressive and egocentric Spitzer would use the position of comptroller to settle old political scores with the governor, second - guess the new mayor, and wage a public - relations war against Wall Street, the single greatest source of revenue to the state.

But former Metropolitan Police Detective Chief Inspector Peter Kirkham said there could be «old scores being settled» as politicians, police officers and journalists tried to deflect blame on to each other.

The Commons saw old scores being settled alongside heartfelt tributes to the anti-apartheid movement today, as MPs debated the legacy of Nelson Mandela.

Some will argue vehemently that peer review allows the scientific establishment to strangle unpalatable new ideas at birth and encourages the settling of old scores between rival research groups.

With his brothers, Virgil (Michael Madsen) and Morgan (Linden Ashby), Earp sets out to clean up the violence - plagued towns of the old West — by using his own guns to settle scores.

Meanwhile, the killer doll has some scores to settle with his old enemies, with the help of his former -LSB-...]

Michael persuades Katherine to take him on as her manager, but while victory is sweet for a while, it doesn't take long for his old enemies to catch up with him, and soon Michael and Katherine have to deal with Clark (Kurt Hanover), an underground fight promoter who has a score to settle with Michael.