"We seem to have a partial defense against the sound."

Against the wrathful weather here, information is at least a partial defense.

Advocacy for public libraries at the local level has been demonstrated to be an effective partial defense against library cuts and closings.

But he may have at least a partial defense here.

Consent may be a complete or partial defense to assault.

A partial defense, they say, would also provide a valuable way station on the road to an overall defense.

Where it is a partial defense, it has the effect of reducing the charge to manslaughter.

Even the program's advocates concede that kinetic weapons provide only a partial defense.

Until recently, the Republic of Ireland did not accept the partial defense.

Diminished capacity is a partial defense to charges that require that the defendant act with a particular state of mind.