Mr. de Ponfilly concedes that Massoud bore partial responsibility for Kabul's destruction.
In the meantime, three people contributed to the loss of the CD's -- you, Robert and the robber; you each bear partial responsibility for their replacement.
But that may have changed with Quan's claim that her police chief bore partial responsibility for the public relations nightmare she is experiencing because of the protest.
Mr Aznar's claim came a week after Mr Blair issued a qualified apology for the war, admitting that he bore partial responsibility for the rise of Isis.
To insist on a fight would mean Democrats would have to bear partial responsibility for a government shutdown if a continuing resolution is not approved in time — a burden now borne entirely by Republicans obsessed with stopping health reform.
Surveyed in 2014, more than one third of the British public – from whom rape trial juries are drawn – insisted that sexual assault victims bear partial responsibility for their attack if they have been "flirting heavily" beforehand, and more than one quarter believed they are partially responsible if they are drunk.
If there are pointed lessons here for some BBC programme-makers, who must bear partial responsibility for the final level of public bafflement, maybe they shouldn't be blamed for submitting to management orders, issued when the now forgotten escort fan and culture secretary, John Whittingdale, was emitting worrying noises.
After repeatedly emphasizing that financiers only bore partial responsibility for problems in financial markets, she urged Wall Street players to reach a "voluntary solution" to the mess.
Pierre said that the government bore at least partial responsibility for any increase in violence, because it had made the laws that created a black market.
After the overthrow of the republic (June 1799), the king and queen returned to Naples, where a massacre of the republic's partisans, in violation of the peace agreement, took place, for which the royal couple must bear at least partial responsibility.
The sooner we banish these myths then, the sooner we stop entertaining arguments that suggest victims bear equal or even partial responsibility for their assault or denials that assaults even happen, the sooner assault rates will go down, an outcome that is surely desirable for everyone.
