Will its putative leader, Anwar Ibrahim, seek to better Malaysia ahead of settling scores?
Yet by settling scores, Mr Yanukovich may also have damaged his own cause.
Brad Pitt plays Jesse James, who is at the tail end of his career and joins up with his brother Frank (Sam Shepard) for one last train robbery, then spends the rest of the story skulking under an alias or settling scores.
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Normally, Mr Lafontaine, when he is not settling old scores, is worth listening to.
Most blasphemy cases turn out to be about something else, often settling personal scores or grabbing property.
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Mr Khan's rivals claim that none of them was al-Qaeda and that Mr Khan was settling old scores.
It's a proxy war for settling old scores, dredging up past slights, supporting preferred teams and conferences and opposing despised ones.
Because there were no signs of forced entry, police suspect the murder may have been carried out by someone attending the party at the house, or someone known to the revellers, possibly a gang-internal settling of scores.
We thus tend to infuse the passage of time with meaning and to see agency in it as well, whether it takes the form of God's supernatural agency in settling moral scores or nature knocking us off the pedestal of our technological hubris.
Erdogan had previously suggested the deaths "could be an internal settling of scores, or it could be an initiative that was taken to create an obstacle in the way of the new honest steps we are taking, " according to the Anatolian news agency.
"This could be an internal settling of scores, or it could be an initiative that was taken to create an obstacle in the way of the new honest steps we are taking, " said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to the semiofficial Anatolian news agency.
During the 1980s, there was tension between the two sets of supporters and it is suspected that the clashes were a settling of old scores.
Nationalist politicians warier of cross-community amity warn that just a few violent incidents caused by the settling of old scores could ruin this budding Greek-Turkish friendship and close the border crossing points again.
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Protracted though the judicial process may be, Fiji is finally settling some important scores with those who sought to establish an ethnic supremacist state in the midst of the South Pacific four years ago.
On this, Ms Bardach, who is a tenacious reporter, scores some points. (Mas Canosa sued her for libel, but ended up settling with the New Republic.) She interviews Luis Posada Carriles, Mr Castro's most persistent would-be assassin.
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