Even if Taipei remains defiant, Beijing should stop short of unsheathing the PLA sword.
Despite the vehemence of their language, Mr Houellebecq's characters usually stop short of outright brutality.
Why did her new companion stop short of doing that which would make her heart sing?
Oracle appears to be betting that the commission will stop short of blocking the merger.
The venture will include power generation, but stop short of going into the retail market.
The findings, however, stop short of saying that coffee drinking directly lowers the risk of chronic disease.
The reforms stop short of compelling schools to accept a more comprehensive intake, for example through banding.
Most editors are put off by the process and stop short of applying.
However, the proposals stop short of a total transfer of powers to Holyrood.
Debt mutualisation can be devised to stop short of a permanent transfer union.
Mr Howard's proposals stop short of this, but they do make it harder for aborigines to claim such rights.
But with rational explanations hard to come by, investors should stop short of making big moves out of equities, Mr. Stovall says.
Next month's report of the White House tax reform commission will likely stop short of advocating a complete scrapping of the tax code.
In general, Chileans have become tired of seeing their leaders stop short of supporting the revolutionary plans of Chavez and the Castro brothers.
The arrangement would stop short of a full takeover, but the letter said Foster's would have a "controlling stake" in Southcorp of about 60%.
Like the European Union, which approved its own reforms in April, the Americans stop short of blessing a particular way of paying for ratings.
To stop at the alleged creeping totalitarianism of progressive thought-policing is to stop short of the crucial question: why would something like this be happening?
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One coach telling his player to stop short of the goal line, the other instructing his defenders to allow a runner to waltz into the end zone unmolested.
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If you stop short of accomplishing this step you will not only fail to move forward strategically, you will also crush the expectations raised in the previous steps.
But the new rules do stop short of Uefa president Michel Platini's "Financial Fair Play" proposals, which are due to be approved by Uefa's Executive Committee this week.
So they have developed ways of scaring people that stop short of threatening lives damaging property by pouring paint on cars, say, or sending fake bombs to laboratory workers.
Having not seen every single all-in-one PC that's ever been released, we'll stop short of saying the InFocus BigTouch is the largest AiO ever to grace the Earth.
But Almunia is keen to stop short of such sanctions.
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The panel, which includes influential Democrats and Republicans, will stop short of setting a specific timetable for withdrawal, according to sources who have seen the executive summary of the report.
Nezavisimaya Gazeta, for instance, is a low-circulation paper, and the large-circulation Izvestiya and Komsomolskaya Pravda, while treading a fine line between observation and scepticism, stop short of hard-hitting attacks on Mr Putin.
Many parents don't think twice about straightening their kids' crooked teeth but stop short of fixing a crooked nose, and yet, in just the past seven years, plastic surgery performed on teens has doubled.
Recent opinion polls show that many people still hanker after the tune of the old Soviet anthem - a much jauntier affair than the Glinka - but would stop short of reinstating the old words.
In the face of intensifying economic pressure, Iran will have to decide whether to proceed on its current course or find a way to assure the international community that it will stop short of nuclear weapons.
Though they stop short of pledging to put it fully under Ofcom, which regulates communications, the Conservatives think it should be overseen by a more independent body than the BBC Trust, which does the job now.
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