to a certain degree

“It was important for me to state outright at the beginning that if I enter this, I’m entering it only to a certain degree. I’m entering it also to create space for someone to step in and really manifest themselves.”

I have to be able to get into her head to a certain degree, obviously.

“Well, I’m clear about what I want to do and I head into my plate appearance prepared to a certain degree,” Ohtani said.

“It gave people on both sides of the aisle a perception of having a mystery to solve, a way to be drawn in, distracted, so they were, to a certain degree, protected from looking at what just happened and feeling the weight of it,” Bernstein said.

And although he agrees that INSERM’s strategic and research branches should be separate to a certain degree, the agency’s research should still be allowed to inform the country’s strategy.