1.   Extreme right-wing parties scored more pronounced successes.

2.   It is a mistake to look at the provisions relating to the passing of risk as in some sense enabling one party to score over the other.

3.   Contrite as he may be, Hatoyama is confident that if a general election were called today, his party would score big.

4.   From sex toys to scrapbooks, selling parties are scoring with women like Winston.

5.   This is the Republican heartland, a region where the party must score in November if it is to win the presidency.

6.   Fortuyn was assassinated ahead of the Netherlands parliamentary election this month, but his party still scored enough votes to have a shot at joining the next governing coalition.

7.   Fortuyn was assassinated ahead of the parliamentary election, but his party still scored enough votes to have a shot at joining the next governing coalition.

8.   Frey held a post-election press conference at a restaurant in a working-class district in northern Munich, the kind of area where his party scored heavily in Saxony Anhalt.

9.   Some opposition parties have scored points by calling for the use of some of that wealth to ease taxes and shore up the public sector.