This is not a partial failure.
So, a partial failure, maybe; a total failure, no way.
(The first test in 2006 was considered a partial failure).
Every move is a partial failure, to be corrected by the next one.
The first test by Pyongyang is thought to have packed less than a kiloton of power and was considered a partial failure by the West.
James R. Clapper, the director of national intelligence, recently told Congress that federal analysts had judged the explosion to be "a partial failure".
This, combined with the partial failure of a key antenna, meant that Galileo was able to complete only seventy per cent of the scientific portion of its mission, leaving many questions about Jupiter unanswered.
This additional step, said Haruhiko Kuroda, the governor of the BoJ, "shows our unwavering determination to end deflation".The bank's action is also an admission of partial failure thus far.
Google's applications suffer a partial failure, a technical problem in Pennsylvania gives taxpayers a day's reprieve and over 700 American Airlines flights are canceled after a computer system fails.
Society desires not only the correct amount of wheat but also that it be consumed more or less evenly over the crop year, with a surplus to carry over in case of a partial failure of the next year's crop.
The first one, in October 1999, appeared to be successful but was later pronounced a partial failure after it turned out that the interceptor at first homed in on the decoy, not the real target.
