partly responsible• So inevitably, I feel at least partly responsible.• Consideration for his successor was partly responsible for his decision to resign short of the seven-year goal, he said.• The boss was at least partly responsible for the adolescentnature of his department.• The alternative - that these lower levels are partly responsible for the development of oesophagitis - is also possible.• Waiting for him-and partly responsible for the lights-was Lars Sjostrand, photographer for the Svenska Dagbladet.• The situation is probably a cyclic one anyway, with man only partly responsible for the present coralmassacre.• Prevailing conditions in the organization and distribution of the popularpress were partly responsible for this.• I think the editors of Cinema Nuovo are partly responsible for what you call our uncertainty.