Sentence examples for score party from inspiring English sources
In turn, Lord Ashcroft has turned on the Government of his adopted homeland, accusing the Prime Minister of lying to score party political points.
How do the Conservatives intend to win an election if they spend so much of their time and energies jumping up and down screeching shrilly in an attempt to score party political points?
Accusing Labour politicians of a "politically motivated put-up job", he said the party was resurrecting the scandal "simply in order to score party political points against the Prime Minister's press spokesman".
He has to establish, from the top down, to Democrats as well as others, that this is not an occasion to score party points - it is a national scandal which needs to be roundly condemned by everyone.
But here was Ernest - as he is affectionately known to most Sierra Leoneans - backed by his praise singers and dancers in party red, quite obviously trying to score party points.
He accused Labour of a "politically motivated put-up job", and said the Opposition was pressing it "simply in order to score party-political points against the Prime Minister's press spokesman".
(2010) scores, who asked experts to score parties on their 'overall orientation towards European integration' using a 1 7 scale which we rescaled to range from 0 to 10.
He spoke of the "enduring humanity" in Kennedy, adding that he was the "polar opposite of a cardboard cut-out, point-scoring party politician".
Nick Clegg, who recently stood down as Lib Dem leader after the party's disastrous performance in the general election, said Kennedy's "enduring humanity" made him the "polar opposite of a cardboard cut-out, point-scoring party politician".
"Politicians just play games against each other, it's all point scoring party to party, which doesn't have anything to do with real people," she says.
Building upon a growing body of literature that explores the concept of valence, we develop a valid measure of valence based upon content analysis of Keesing's Record of World Events that scores parties along three valence dimensions – competence, integrity, and unity/division.
