By the standards of realism, British policy in recent decades has been, at best, a partial success.

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The aerospace giant's product line is ailing, and attempts to revive it have met with only partial success.

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Alas, the latest effort, seen at its second performance Tuesday night (it runs through March 29), is only a partial success.

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And the dream of remaking mixed communities was only a partial success, says Andy Bearpark, a Briton who oversaw the Bosnian effort.

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If the first grand coalition was a partial success, it was mainly because Karl Schiller, the SPD economics minister, and Franz Josef Strauss, the CSU finance minister, got along well.

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Still, success was partial unless the oysters could reproduce, paving the way for a self-sustaining system.

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Nor, with the partial exceptions of ConSors, of Germany, and Bipop, from Italy, have European brokers had much success outside their homelands.

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