Sentence examples for a partial match from inspiring English sources

"Let's say you find a convict who's a partial match.

"He's been a partial match for the Romney super PAC," Mr. Gingrich said.

A sample of deteriorated or contaminated DNA may allow for analysis of just some loci, which produces a partial match.

If they find a partial match, they can zero in on relatives of the profiled person as possible suspects.

When medical examiners saw a partial match — suggestive of a familial relationship — they kept it to themselves.

But those agencies also want to know when the state finds even a partial match, which could indicate that a relative committed the crime being investigated.

Under that proposal, nonprofits could claim a tax credit worth 15 percent of any charitable gift they received, effectively giving the donor a partial match.

Lo and behold, Mr. Franklin's son had recently been convicted on a felony weapons charge, and his DNA offered a partial match to crime-scene DNA.

DNA found on the casing of one of the bullets fired to the gun was a partial match to Noor, who shot Dosumnu after mistaking him for his older brother.

But in the case of an Etruscan terra-cotta antefix, or roof ornament, installed on the ground floor of the Getty Villa, Mr. Brand said that a photograph seized from Mr. Medici was only a partial match.

Three years in, the street-level experience in New York has been decidedly mixed: Law enforcement officials said they knew of no cases solved in New York City because of a lead generated by a partial match.