"partial toward" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used to describe a preference or inclination for something. For example, "She has a strong partial toward French cuisine."
The statement repeated Mr. Tsvangirai's claim that Mr. Mbeki was "too partial" toward Mr. Mugabe.
The common-sense view is that it is permissible for an agent to be partial toward herself; that is, to treat her own projects and concerns as if they had special significance (Scheffler 1982).
Various tweets claim that DiCaro has been partial toward Kane's accuser in her reporting, leading her to respond that she has never presumed the hockey player to be guilty.
Tandem repeats are troublesome for the assembly of large genomes, which are often partial toward dinucleotide and 9- to 30-bp periods (Navajas-Perez and Paterson 2009).
These are needed to reduce the level of immunosuppressive therapy and to improve long-term transplant outcomes definitively., Therefore, it is necessary to develop non-invasive biomarkers that allow the early detection of patients who have developed immunological unresponsiveness (total or partial) toward their graft, either spontaneously or through active tolerance induction.
Under the current regulations, SULEV's are given only partial credit toward the emissions goals.
Both Intel and Microsoft executives said the research funds were a partial step toward filling a void left by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa.
Some hybrids would get partial credit toward that goal, but 4percentt of sales would have to be of true zero-emission cars.
And conceivably, Abbas's U.N. initiative could be leveraged into a useful "win-win" formula for partial progress toward a two-state framework.
There have been partial steps toward the democratization of programming, from Visicalc, the first electronic spreadsheet, to the hypertext markup language, or HTML, the simplified English-laden computer language used to make Web pages.
The California air board and the other states that have adopted its standards consider the P.Z.E.V. clean enough to earn manufacturers a partial credit toward the zero emission vehicle mandate, which takes effect in 2005.
