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Simple sentences
It was a partial success.
It was only a partial success.
His business was only a partial success.
The math teacher explained the concept of partial differentiation.
My mom is partial towards my brother. For example, yesterday she gave him an extra cookie.
He is always partial to the company of girls.
Lunar eclipses can be total or partial.
I can only afford to make a partial payment.
Movie subtitles
As you well know, I only have partial psychic talents.
Facial burns, partial-thickness.
Widespread full and partial-thickness burns across the chest.
Was your father partial a meat pie?
His symptoms are consistent with partial amnesia.
Being so partial to the weed myself, I sometimes forget that it disagrees with others.
Romulus and I are very partial to sentiment.
You wouldn't believe it, but I'm very partial to poetry.
Perhaps because I've always been partial to the stray cat. who comes stalking down the aisle. when everyone is yawning their heads off at a dull sermon.
I'll warrant she'll tax him home, and, as you said - and wisely was it said - 'tis meet that some more audience than a mother, since nature makes them partial, should o'erhear the speech of vantage.
Of course, I'm partial to Mexico myself.
I'm partial to blondes.
He's partial to molasses candy.
I'm not partial to them.
A partial list of those my father identified as being members of The Blessed.
To the best of my recollection, Mr. Christian, you're partial to cheese.
I'm rather partial to Professor Quiz.
She's not partial to your sort, Harry.
If there's one thing I'm partial to, it's a nice big jar of brandied peaches.
There's nothing I'm more partial to than a nice tom turkey.
He's very partial to it.
You're not being partial, are you?
But I think this is only a partial explanation.
OH, DO YOU THINK, SIR, THAT SOME HANDSOME GENTLEMAN MIGHT BE PARTIAL TO ME AT THE BALL?
They say he's partial to young women. Here's your box.
Oh, her face will be forever disfiigured - a permanent partial paralysis.
James, how's the lady who's partial to red roses?
A partial reimbursement of the costs, I guess.
Let me read you, uh, a partial list of observed phenomena.
Partial communication has now been restored.
In my family, we always were partial to cash.
News and current affairs
Earlier this year, they staged partial, and tightly regulated municipal elections, with no independent opinion permitted to influence when and how the ballots were held.
Meanwhile, the Hijazis, who originate in Mecca and Medina, hold long-repressed resentments due to their humiliating partial inclusion in Saudi politics.
A policy of partial, delayed integration is preferable to quotas, not only in view of the Treaty of Rome but also on economic grounds.
African farmers should wonder how it could be Bush--not some left-wing Democrat--who reversed the archconservative Newt Gingrich's proudest achievement: the partial reform of agricultural subsidies.
But even a partial shift in meat-consumption habits - with consumers choosing options like chicken and seafood, instead of beef - could have a far-reaching impact.
To date, Bush and Blair have failed to make the case to the world, with the partial exception of their own countries.
The risk is that, by then, it could be too late to save the euro from a partial break-up: what might work if adopted promptly could be ineffective if adopted in six months.
Until now, the EU's leaders have followed the easiest, but least productive path, patching temporary, partial fixes on problems as they erupt.
This means a more balanced economic policy within the eurozone, an enhanced role for the ECB, a real banking and financial union, and a road map to partial and conditional mutualization of legacy debt.
Some reforms - if only partial - are already in sight.
But this triumph marked only a partial return by France to the European fold.
After the failure in 2005 of the draft European constitution, it was far from obvious that negotiations that would yield only partial progress in improving the European Union's decision-making mechanisms was the right way to proceed.
That would have put a partial brake on growth in asset prices, raised savings, reduced investment, and probably lowered the trade deficit.
Any globalization that is limited to the first three or four freedoms but omits the last one is partial and not sustainable.
Developed countries are thus morally obliged to pay partial compensation to poor and vulnerable countries and regions to cover part of the cost of the investments needed to adapt to climate change.
I cannot believe that people in developed counties, when informed about the issues, would support rescuing bankers and oppose partial compensation for poor countries and regions.
This is true of a rather small group of rich countries (India is a partial exception), mainly in western Europe and its overseas offshoots, since World War II.
A compromise would allow both parties to declare partial victory, for it would likely entail commitments to cut spending and some steps to make taxation more socially just.
But, to my mind, for the most part, decentralized experimentation beats Africa's partial addiction to aid.
The most important positive component of Qaddafi's legacy, however, was the partial emancipation of women.
Bush's partial explanation of the world food crisis, accurate as far as it went, brought the anger of India's media and of many politicians down on his head.
The opposition, meanwhile, will try to expand on its victory, which, though partial, was significant in its political symbolism.
There has even been a partial revamping of key global institutions, from the rise of the G-20 to reform of the International Monetary Fund.