Although there are no traditional cliffhanger endings, each serial chapter has a partial resolution at its end: Each episode's primary henchman always escapes.
By the time he reached his car the Executioner was well into a partial resolution of his problem.
The situation of partial resolution is, in fact, common and a large part of adult relationships are based on parental patterns.
Unresolved harmonies move from one partial resolution to the next unresolved harmony and so on into the night.
Such a concept - a period of nonwar but only partial resolution of a conflict - is foreign to the West and has been greeted with much suspicion.
After many months of trials, retrials and appeals, there is a possibility this week that some partial resolution may be at hand.
A partial resolution of the small-divisor problem was given by the statement of the KAM theorem in 1954.
In the end, the crisis reached a partial resolution.
The vampire always found at least partial resolution, and Dageus had begun to fear that for him, there would be none.
The suit came to a partial resolution in 2006 with a judgement against one of the directors, but not the other.