1.   My nervousness made me deliver the vital points of my address without sufficient punch.

2.   STEPHEN Pears celebrated his England B call-up with a man-of-the-match display to earn Middlesbrough a vital point against third-placed Cambridge.

3.   I am concerned that recent press coverage about public funding for research in Scottish universities misses two vital points.

4.   As Serena broke Davenport in the seventh game of the third set, one clunker of a return somehow wobbled over the net to produce a vital point.

5.   But he mostly failed to find the end zone and, worse, wiped would-be vital points off the board with two bad throws for interceptions.

6.   Clinton and Yeltsin cannot afford to miss this vital point.

7.   After all the mosques in town were destroyed, Merhamet became a vital gathering point and symbol of the centuries-old Muslim presence in Banja Luka.

8.   At Bari, neither club played particularly well, but the draw provides each with a vital point in the battle to avoid relegation.

9.   At the other end of the table, the bottom three clubs all grabbed three vital points.

10.   Derby withstood a barrage of second-half attack to collect a vital three competition points.