You got partial approval for the operation, politics would not necessarily have come into play, but in breaking the rules, sir, you took a national-security issue and made it into a political one.

Sometimes the I.R.S. will issue a partial approval, prompting a co-op to mix and match its techniques.

However, a facility may be given partial duty-suspended approval if it is established that at least 80% of the deliveries are to export to EU Member States or third countries.

There were nods from the directors, but only of partial approval.

But Kurt Kruger, an analyst with Hambrecht & Quist, said the partial approval was anticipated and was at most a temporary setback for Ventritex.

For the exception for pension costs, 89 school districts received approval to exceed the Index in full while others received a partial approval of their request.

The proposed mall was specifically exempted from the 1993 state law that created the pine barrens preserve because it had partial approval from the Town of Brookhaven by that year.

The idea has the partial approval of Mr. Moussaoui's lawyers, but court administrators said the rules prohibit the televising of any federal criminal trial and suggested there was little for the judge to decide.

At first reading, Parliament submitted 77 amendments, to the quality of which the Council paid tribute by adopting almost 60 in their entirety and giving partial approval to 10 more.

The Commission gave partial approval to the first amendment of many tabled by the European Parliament in November 1993 allowing for the principle of non-discrimination to be extended to cover sexual orientation.