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stop short of (делать чего-либо; в знач. "решить не делать": I stopped short of telling him what I really felt about him. • He said the attacks had targeted peace and democracy, but stopped short of blaming foreign powers. • In its second preliminary report on flight PS752, the CAOI identified the surface-to-air missiles fired at flight PS752 as coming from a Tor-M1 system, which Nato calls the SA-15 "Gauntlet". However, the report stopped short of blaming the missiles for the crash, saying "the impact of these missiles on the accident and the analysis of this action is under investigation". • President Obama on Friday condemned the missile attack that downed a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine as an "outrage of unspeakable proportions" but stopped short of blaming Russia directly for the tragedy.  latimes.com 4uzhoj) |
