stop short

The FT suggests the chancellor is considering measures to tackle child poverty which stop short of abolishing the limit altogether.

Most importantly, however, the history of “God’s image” cannot stop short in secularism.

While dating pigments and other elements to Malevich's lifetime, the reports stop short of claiming the works were painted by the artist.

Neoliberal Democrats often serve such conservatives as convenient scapegoats because they, too, stop short of challenging capitalism’s relentless dissolution of civic-republican virtue.

It will be enough to harm their opponent, especially their infrastructure assets, but stop short of being an attributable act of war.