Men and women who kill after long-term abuse could use one of the partial defences, which replaces a requirement for them to have acted on the spur of the moment.

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Pollock's use of semiabstraction and his partial concealment of representational images point ahead to the layered complexities of the drip paintings, where representation seems to disappear.

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The second camp argues that bipedal dinosaurs with partial wings learnt to use them to fly.

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Raiola also factored in a partial foreign tax credit that the players can use on their U.S. returns, along with so-called "jock taxes, " in which some states require visiting athletes to pay state income tax for each game they play there.

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Some of the losers scraped together the cash to pay the tax and will get partial refunds of old AMT credits they could never use up.

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Some states have partial or industry-specific bans of the material's use.

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The Spanish start-up ChangeYourFlight enables travellers to make requests for partial refunds of plane tickets they know they are not going to use via a free, three-step process.

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