in some measure

The once sedate RBS had become in some measure the biggest bank in the world.

Global warming would “put strictures on the economic growth that has been the great social salve that has kept some groups, in some measure, from each other’s throats,” he told his close friend Otis Graham, the University of California, Santa Barbara, historian.

Even before the trial’s opening statements, the Secret Service was in some measure planning for the extraordinary possibility of a former president behind bars.

While working in New York he lived in a Park Avenue apartment, “in some measure thanks to family money, surrounded by antiques and paintings,” The Times wrote in a profile of him.

But if and when any of the parties fails to perform their roles correctly, the contract is broken and democracy is jeopardized, at least in some measure.