Usually the idea is to break out or settle a score.

Settling a score is exactly what would make a bad book.

Republican leaders would like to make the same change, but to settle a score.

The police said they are investigating whether he may have been trying to settle a score with someone.

They killed eight infants and children to settle a score in 1998.

"We have come to settle a score," he said without any hesitation.

He was out to prevent tragedy, and at the same time settle a score for justice.

The killers came to settle a score with a man who had crossed them.

Who's to say whether one of them finally managed to settle a score?"

That would be long enough for the sergeant to settle a score with the Germans.

Some old boyfriend probably just decided to settle a score."

Settled a score with his youth, in a way.

But they both show officers out of control and using excessive force to settle a score with a suspect.

Neither runner sees today's race as a chance to settle a score.

The Soviet Union was simply settling a score from 1980.

But I am going to settle a score, and this time you can't help me."

He stopped over to settle a score on some planet and didn't know the chill was going around.

I don't want you using this as an opportunity to settle a score.'

They set light to the castle and leave for the village, to settle a score...

"First I would like to repossess my gun and, perhaps, to settle a score.

Some of the author's actions, like using chocolate cookies to settle a score, are much less compelling than others.

Tonight we collect and you can settle a score!"

"Nobody should be tempted to try to settle a score of a political nature by then involving the power of the state."

Let us discuss cargo movements after I have settled a score with certain youths."

The intruders were apparently looking to settle a score with a student who had been involved in Sunday night's fracas, the police said.

It was bad form to ask a man to settle an account.

She had spoken of settling an account with me.

Something about settling an account your great-uncle left, I think."

Ichiro had been called to settle an account with a merchant.

"I'd like to settle an account," I said.

Sometimes there is a sudden change of partner - a lost parent, an abandoned lover, come back to bring a message or to settle an account.

"Settling an account?"

In a letter to William Small in 1772, Watt confessed that "he would rather face a loaded cannon than settle an account or make a bargain."

A federal judge approved an agreement yesterday for WorldCom to pay $750 million to settle an accounting fraud lawsuit by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Unbeknownst to them, Ricotta and Trentadenari, two accomplices of Sardinia, boss of Ostia, are "settling an account."

As an example, he said, an armed group of 40 men carrying security identification cards from another republic, recently managed to travel to Tyumen, in Siberia, "to settle an account."

The deed turned out to be for the rocky side of a mountain, and Patiño was fired from his job for settling an account in exchange for a worthless piece of property.

For example, they would like to use funds in their euro account in country A to settle an account in debit in country B. In this way, they would pay less interest.

The forfeiture of a seat of a deputy to the European Parliament by laws of eligibility is an easy way to put pressure on political opponents and gives the opportunity to settle an account politically with those who have more authority.

If so, who had the Jevlenese been intending to direct the military strength against - the Thuriens, to end what was seen as an era of Ganymean domination; or Earth, to settle an account that went back fifty thousand years?