(1) We will never stop short of the goal.

(2) Yet we stop short of analysing what it is.

(3) These were understood to stop short of deployment of major ground forces.

(4) Doctors stop short of saying the disease is always fatal, but medical literature paints a bleak picture.

(5) Yet the argument against Ashdown's triumphalism has to stop short of encouraging the same fatal hubris among Labour politicians.

(6) I know people who would maim and yet stop short of murder.

(7) Both stop short of demanding censorship, though Mary Whitehouse is characteristically less tentative.

(8) We will never stop short of goal.

(9) In fact, the submission appears to stop short of taking such an extreme position.

(10) Chilblains are only one stop short of frostbite, you know, and occur in all the same places.

(11) Will the city council actually stop short of increasing taxes?

(12) I may not like her but I would stop short of calling her names.

(13) There is no reason, now, why we should stop short of any degree of generality.

(14) He can be ruthless in getting what he wants, but I believe he would stop short of blackmail.

(15) I may withhold the truth at times, but I stop short of actually telling lies.

(16) It is revealing in how clear f was and yet I managed to stop short of naming it as racism.

(17) In fact, no general pattern is discernible, except that almost all stop short of full accountability to Parliament.

(18) There is just enough validity in the idea for it to stop short of mental derangement.

(1) I may withhold the truth at times, but I stop short of actually telling lies.