The story detailed how local cadres cut corners, but it stopped short of assigning responsibility by name.
It stopped short of declaring Google's data gathering practices illegal, but made clear 12 measures the company must put in place to satisfy the concerns.
In 2008, the Organ Donation Taskforce said a 50% increase in organ donation was achievable in the UK within five years, but it stopped short of recommending an opt-out system.
While the ETNO does not deny that it believes that the way that content providers use the internet should be changed, it stopped short of calling for an actual tax, saying instead that it wants telecommunications network operators to consider making deals with content providers.
The panel also recommended that those found guilty of rape leading to death spend the rest of their life in prison, but it stopped short of calling for the death penalty, something which many in India had pushed for, the BBC's Sanjoy Majumder reports from Delhi.
It has stopped short of formal diplomatic recognition of Abkhazia and another smaller breakaway statelet called South Ossetia (see map).
In 1991 it stopped providing short-term export-credit guarantees, spinning off the business to what is now the privately owned Atradius.
But it has stopped short of following in the footsteps of Greece, Ireland and Portugal in requesting a full-blown sovereign bailout.
The SEC has said it would examine allegations of manipulative trading, but stopped short of saying it is doing so in the Bear Stearns case.
To be sure, the Episcopalians regretted the pain which ordaining Bishop Robinson had caused and the strain it had placed on Anglican unity, but they stopped well short of promising that it would not happen again.
The association, known as the Lega Calcio, also issued an official warning to the club, but stopped short of docking it points in the league standings.
At the White House, spokesman Jay Carney acknowledged that the Newtown tragedy had affected all Americans and "reminds us what really matters, " but he stopped short of saying it had directly impacted the talks.
On tuition fees, Mr Clegg stopped short of saying it was one of his biggest political regrets, but said he regretted that it was a pre-election promise which the party could not deliver on.
However, Ahsan Iqbal, spokesman for the PML-N party, stopped short of calling it a coalition, saying only that leader Nawaz Sharif had met with PPP officials and pledged to work with other political groups to form a government to address Pakistan's problems.
Panter admits that time is not on City's side given RBS's stance that the club has only until the end of the year to repay its debts, but he stopped short of saying it would definitely mean the end of the road for the Blue Square South club.
Last year, Bruno Grandi, the president of the International Gymnastics Federation, known as FIG, said in an open letter there was a problem with the Code of Points, the rule book that describes how many points gymnasts get for certain moves but he stopped short of saying it was causing injuries.
Unfortunately, the commissioners stopped just short of getting it perfectly right.
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Silei stopped short of saying Ducati made it specifically to target American buyers, but he said it belongs to a group of new variants designed to be more conducive to the American mindset (oriented toward recreation and long-distance cruising rather than toward the more European uses of transport and sport).
The OFT stopped short of criticising this arrangement, though it reckons clarity about what fees are actually buying might allow issuers to haggle.
But he stopped short of saying the scenario was impossible, adding that it "is well within the realm of physical law".
But the government stopped short of cutting ties to Israel, and has made it clear that it wants to protect vital trade and tourism links.
He also points out that it will soon be easier to register a society, although the government stopped short of doing away with the registration process altogether.
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Google stopped short of pulling the video entirely, though, saying it would rather work with local law enforcement than respond to political pressure, according to Reuters.
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While he stopped short of saying that Newsweek will shut down its print edition, it was clear Diller meant to at least float that possibility.
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The government stopped short of agreeing to an ombudsman, but announced in June 2006 that it would set up a Service Complaints Commissioner, who would be independent, reporting annually to parliament, but could not take legal action to challenge decisions on whether to prosecute.
While the House Intelligence report stopped short of calling for a boycott of the firms' mobile phone products, it was highly critical of the two companies.
Sarandos stopped short of telling Mossberg that Netflix is indeed going to consider itself a production company, but it's clear that the company is enjoying the experiment.
However, the team behind the work has stopped short of definitively calling N parringtoni the earliest dinosaur, because the fossil skeletons used to define it were incomplete: one upper arm bone and six vertebrae.
It is rooted in a flawed change to the constitution in 2004 that reduced the power of the president but stopped short of turning Ukraine into a parliamentary republic, fudging the responsibilities of president and prime minister.
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