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The butcher stared at her. The wicker lady was short of stature and twisted of limb, her face was dark and rough.

The DPJ won just 44 seats, ten less than it had hoped for and well short of a majority, even in league with its small coalition partner.

By the way, I would be very grateful if you could cover the cost for me first. I'm running short of cash.

Short of an implosion to rival that of Bear Stearns in March, however, the rumours are unlikely to become real deals for the time being.

But he stopped short of saying how much it could expand output given possible supply limits for hybrid components.

Even if the size of the IPO surpasses that of ICBC, it still falls short of the bank's goal to raise as much as $30 billion.

A mild discussion may sometimes develop into a set-to. Such a thing is little short of ludicrous.

It had taken everything short of magic to make it here so fast with all the necessary connections between cities.

The old woman's grandchildren willed her to live until Christmas, but she died just short of the holiday.

While Uefa appears ready to bow to the club's request, it stopped short of confirming yesterday that it would give its consent.

As you know, we are all facing a falling market, and the banks are short of ready money .

My grandfather lived an active, independent life until the day before he died in 2002, just a few days short of his 96th birthday.

At this point I was thinking that this lady was crazy, and there was just no way she was getting a ticket short of someone in line dying.

Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.

It had been planned that the tunnel would reach into a nearby forest, but the first man out emerged just short of the tree line.

HE MAY be a few pixels short of a picture these days, but as an auctioneer North Korea's nuclear-capable Kim Jong Il is without peer.

I saw her palms first. My eyes traveled up to her face, and my expression was nothing short of aghast.

And its coalition would be just a few senators short of the 60% needed to amend the constitution.

The OECD harmful tax practices guidance thus seems to fall short of international law in the formal sense of treaty or custom.

The other evident stresses, like the indisputable property bubble, are manageable and far short of what brought down the American economy.

That could be enough to leave Mr Rajoy as many as six seats short of an absolute majority.

that's just fine, but you seem to be a little short of transportation right now, so my Team Alpha will deliver you to me.

Gasol still has swelling and soreness in his sprained ankle, but Coach Phil Jackson stopped short of calling it a setback.

He has his own advertising agency, and is doing very good business, but he is always short of money, and has even tried to borrow from me.

And Mr Haass was also right to see that necessity stopped well short of Baghdad and the removal of Saddam.

He never did complete a graduate degree, however, stopping short of his dissertation.

But short of that kind of surprise, I think the U. S. stock market is the best in the world for the next three to six months.

From his visionary conceptualization, to the reality SIAS is today, is nothing short of a miracle.

It might not always upgrade the ship you precisely wanted, but for those of you who are short of time it will keep the game playable.

However, stating ozone has no known medical uses is nothing short of sheer lunacy.

But, in the last home game of the season against Tottenham you saw that we were short of a little bit of class against the better teams.

The only way to get rid of him short of a shotgun is to agree to meet up soon. Preferably, when hell freezes over.

She wanted to be paid in a lump, but I was short of money and had to give her a little and promise that I would pay the rest later.

Most people look startled, squint at me as though I'm a few chocolates short of a full box, then assure me that yes, they're comfortable.

Well, that's the long and short of it. Jill told Jack that she wanted to break up with him.

Get at least 30 minutes of moderate exercise, enough to raise your heart rate but not leave you short of breath, five times a week.

But the thing that wasn't cool was that it was too short of a time!

Judd runs the Starlight Hotel out in some sort of swampy place, and is unfortunately a few slices short of a loaf.

Staring at a mirror, a loss of the cold wave hit the body all over, helpless eyes, short of the idea, there are tears in her eyes flashing.

Our palms sweated , we might have been short of breath, and filled with trembling knees, nausea, a stomachache, and a rapid heartbeat.

So many years after her death, this humble creature she could help to restore a little sanity in a world that seems to have run short of it.

It has a pair of black stones like the eyes, ears, long tail, short of sharp claws, feels fluffy hair.

But I never ran into any trouble because my friends had done their utmost to make sure that I would be short of nothing .

Being short of skilled workers, the are trying to attract university graduates to go and work there.

Zichen did not answer, because anything she said would fall short of his expectations.

To see a boy go into a grocery store at noon recess was a hairbreadth short of a miracle to me.

I've often helped Bob out when he's been a bit short of money.

And this may be cool enough to keep foods fresh, at least for a short of time.

Wang said the company never explained why her milk fell short of standards.

Bi Ru Shui : We are hard to avoid being short of a little spirit aspect need within this matter society all day long.

Sadly Dr Greenberg's co-founder died in 2009, just a year short of realising his goal of creating a commercial retinal implant.

You were just short of becoming totally enslaved and controlled by a draconian World Government that was to be put in place.

Even though I fell short of what was required of me, my teacher graced me with love and understanding.

The present study on Chinese ethnic and folk dance is short of a macro-view and is not ready to build up a systemic and completed cognition.

Ford says the uptick was an "encourage sign" , but stopped short of calling it a bottoming out point.

Its difficulties had begun a week earlier as rumours began to circulate that it was short of liquidity .

The French knew that, short of defeating the British navy, their only hope of victory was to close all the ports of Europe to British ships.

And in broad societal impact, he might have fallen short of the man who popularized the automobile, Henry Ford.

It sounds as though Harold is a bit short of mates and reads to make up for it.

For some of these countries, the transition is nothing short of a regime shift.

I really hate to ask but I'm short of cash at the moment. Can you lend me some money?

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

But so far the diary seems to be long on detail and short of revelations.

It falls short of his earlier ambitions, to be sure, and will not be easy to make work.

But it would fall short of its main aim, which is to deliver such a blow to Hizbullah that it will not pose a serious military threat again.

All this still seems well short of what many generals think is needed for an effective counter-insurgency campaign.

If you think you're not able to observe these rules, you can move out anytime - that's the long and short of it!

Nothing short of their removal will bring an end to this almighty charade they have been playing with you one for a very long time.

The long and short of it is I really would like to be able to work from home in the late afternoons and early evenings.

The manager told her that he was unhappy with her work, but he stopped short of dismissing her from her job.

"The announcement by the Cabinet was necessary. But it was not sufficient, and it ran short of the expectations of Kenyans, " he said.

Heb. 4: 1 Let us fear therefore, lest, a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it.

The England full-back has spent just short of a year on the sidelines having seen numerous comebacks hampered by injury.

Short of an unexpected delay on his way, he'll arrive by tomorrow.

Because short of that, short of you telling me that somebody came.

The terrible motor-car drew slowly nearer and nearer, till at last he heard it stop just short of him.

She was just a month short of seventeen, and for the first time in his life Paddy felt really old.

And I believe nothing short of that was at risk in the absence of those actions.

The typical post-conflict government is so short of money that it needs our money just to be on a life support system.

It's easy to get overwhelmed with all the responsibilities of life, to fall short of time and find ourselves scrambling .

Her mother died nine days short of her (mother's) fiftieth birthday.

Yet even these cannot give you an impression quite so ethereal. The sense of beauty it inspires is nothing short of divine.

Not my short of holiday, I'm afraid. I've never been camping out for my vacation.

But she was just short of a majority, so she will face a run-off runoff election.

The best anyone hopes for at this point is a highly watered-down deal that will fall far short of the initial goals.

The money isn't there, and that's the long and short of it.

Usually they said they have had a try , however it failed . so it was evidence that they was short of this ability .

Short of unexpected delay on his way , he'll arrive by tomorrow .

Am I so short of madmen that you have to bring this fellow here to carry on like this in front of me? Must this man come into my house?

Les and the Rockets have been nothing short of amazing to me and my family during my entire time with them, and for that I thank them.

Though the boss approved of this project it had to be abandoned mainly because the firm was short of extra finance.

French tribunal stopped short of an industrial espionage verdict, instead finding that she had "abused trust. "

But her mother considers the rescue-like her daughter- "nothing short of a miracle. "

If a probationer still gets into trouble, the county can now punish him in ways short of returning him to prison.

But she was just short of a majority, so she will face a runoff election.

She felt a little better but she was still having fevers, and now she felt short of breath with even minimal effort.

Some suspect the Fed will stop short of any indication that another round of quantitative easing might be on the table.

Until recently, she was a safe pair of hands. She is also a woman, and David Cameron is short of them.

And while other researchers praise her work, they point out that of dolphin-human communication has often fallen short of expectations.

Compared with other nationality , we nay safely conclude that Englisn seem to be short of deep emotions or great passions.

I find his answer falls far short of even trying to explain let alone apologize for the carnage they cause.

For that reason, the judge stopped short of revealing himself to the public for fear of seeing his decisions challenged in court.

While Abruzzo faces the Adriatic, not the Mediterranean, the town's attitude is nothing short of quintessentially Med.

These arrangements are based mainly on the consideration that this year revenue will fall significantly short of expenditures.

The content of the game, said the dust is short of students, high school MOISTURE beauty, the passion of the waves on campus.

Due to being short of coincident standard, judge makes decision by his understanding and analysing the case during judicial practice.

That said, the G20 agreement has some troubling flaws, leaving them with something short of a passing grade in dealing with the crisis.

Microsoft responded the same day by saying its offer was "full and fair, " but stopped short of saying it would not raise its price.

Not that Chinese workers are buying second homes or anything like that: Their average wage is still a little short of a dollar an hour.

A doctor should be able to prescribe antiviral medications, short of a herpes vaccine, for daily intake.

Will the Shi'ite resolve hold? Short of the destruction of another major religious site, it's hard to see them taking al-Qaeda's bait.

Short of actually beating his wife, he perceived nothing to be done, he therefore accepted the situation without another word.

According to a recent report by Taiwan media, in the face of a slowing economy, various Taiwanese gangs are now short of money.

Their best player was Abel Xavier by a mile and his rehabilitation after his drug scandal is nothing short of extraordinary.

He is now, just a little too late to enjoy it, the world's most famous man, one pixel short of saviour.

I looked up to see short of sub-mom, big eyes, round face, short Shuzhe hair.

Barely missing the opportunity for a new and better life, Anne died from illness two weeks short of her release from the concentration camp.

Unfortunately, the United States and many others, including Italy, Germany and Japan, fall far short of that.

One should be prepared to fall short of reaching the immediate objective, and put the best spin on that failure.

Short of that, business investment would have to make a comeback for expansion to continue.

The AU is trying to improve its peacekeeping capacity, but is desperately short of resources.

Spain's Socialists got over 40% of the vote and fell just a dozen votes short of a majority on their own.

witnessed all other stones whom were patched up the sky, only itself fallen short of choice, thus it complained and sighed day and night.

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

Being short of money, they are trying to attract foreign capital.

That would obviously be worrying but I still think it would be contained short of a war.

Some will argue that this is a bad deal at a time when Western countries are short of cash.

We did not buy anything because we were short of money.

My ex-husband was a good and caring companion, but, like a typical Chinese man, he was also short of expression with regard to love.

In the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year, the company fell short of forecasts by one cent.

Short of the east fence, chrysanthemum opened, like an innocent little face Zhang, stretch a childish smile.

Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it's his fault; If he betrays you twice, it's your fault.

Drogba, never short of a word, was understandably pleased at netting the winner and hinted it was the most important goal of his career.

Short of that, will Fed officials even be willing to use the bully pulpit to express concerns about excessive market speculation?

Being short of funds has been a difficult problem for the police law enforcement work.

So even though I started training again, I continued to fall short of my five minute mile goal.

If lawmakers do not raise that limit, the U. S. could begin running short of money on August 2.

They have been replaced by a central bank official as fears grew that the bank, which is dangerously short of cash, could fail.

Even then she joked that she was just one perfect guy short of being married, thus bringing us closer to our dream.

Good to see he's getting the recognition he deserves. The Rockets have been nothing short of amazing this year.

Caulfield stops short of speculating on a date when CDs might be phased out, but he does see similarities with the history of other media.

I wrote my own book on how to survive the credit crunch, The Long and the Short of It, published this year.

The hospital recently was short of beds for adults, so a 70-year-old cancer patient was forced to stay in pediatrics for nearly a week.

He said he is short of reforming.

My mom knows I am tired with the work and be short of sleep and she will often ask me to climb the hill or to meet my old friends.

His views seem to us to fall far short of what may fairly be termed even a statesmanlike Anti-Slavery creed.

The engine did not stop for being short of fuel. It must be the control gear that is out of order.

However, after losses to Antonio Margarito and now Miguel Cotto, he seems to destined to fall short of elite status.

Innovation did not catch up with, the technology is short of break, politic without operation.

Similarly, when banks had many subsidiaries, regulators short of money and time tended to worry only about their own piece of the jigsaw.

I finished the piece, corrected it, printed it up and faxed it to New York, five hours short of my deadline.

This article, is nothing short of a fishing propaganda HOOK. Don't take the bait. . .

At the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh, the industrialised economies fell short of expectations they would produce a package on climate finance.

Short of that, there are few centers in the United States that offer the possibility of liver transplant.

Any correction in prices, though, could be mitigated by the fact that consumers in Europe and the US are also short of copper inventory.

meanwhile being short of sense of responsibility, aiming too high. They are a group with excellence as well as shortcomings.

At the very least, I'm very comfortable saying that this is nothing short of the most important acquisition I've seen from Sun in my career.

Short of that, the European Central Bank will have to continue buying Italian bonds.

FARZAD: Long and short of it is they tell you, the investor, the investing community, whether and entity is good or not for its money.

Due to the short of water supply today, we only serve bottled drink, bottled water and cakes at the moment.

But be short of developing fund is one of the main reason for SMEs dying young, and these also brought about social resources wastes.

All that is short of Good and Evil, it is nothing more than the rule of impulses.

Short of that , musically skilled kids get bonus points in the pressure-cooker competition to get into good universities and high schools .

"The long and the short of it is we now think we're about halfway through the overall peak-to-trough decline, " Mr Syron told investors.

Since the beginning of 2009, the market since its responses to the overwhelming response, short of demand.

The Afriqiyah Airways plane was arriving from Johannesburg, South Africa, and is believed to have crashed just short of the runway.

And I just felt really short of breath and they couldn't figure it out whether it was altitude sickness or. . .

I dare say you will anticipate the shape of my theory; though, for myself, I very soon felt that it fell far short of the truth.

If GE's industrial businesses fell short of the mark, the company's finance arm would stage a last-minute sale of assets to close the gap.

One area in which a Python script portability falls far short of a Java application's portability is in the user interface.

We need to hear something that does not fall short of our lowest expectations.

In such a great era of profound historic transformations, we are short of great works reflecting the changeable time.

Anything short of that won't satisfy Washington. Nor will it, in the long run, be in China's best interests either.

About me and his child is very short of class, but he was much better than I sports thing.

Now, after falling nearly 40% short of its unit-sales target for 2008, the company is cutting workers and worried that it might not survive.

But treasuries are short of money, and may never be able to protect large countries like Italy.

Use concise low type furniture to be able to narrow the short of planar space feels for instance.

Fourteen Democratic senators have left the state, leaving it one lawmaker short of a quorum required to bring the bill to a vote.

The effect of compression-therapy in his case had been nothing short of miraculous-almost complete recovery in two short months.

Despite providing legal health directives, Langbehn said, "Short of being straight, I don't know what I could have done differently. "

and a government at all levels that fell short of its responsibilities.

The poem was one line short of the customary four, so the disciple said: "Master, we are one line short. "

But short of photographing a cow or some other life form ambling among the rocks, Curiosity is not going to discover life.

They would be satisfied with nothing short of the president's permanent, irreversible departure.

Unfortunately, as we lovingly remember this person, our words fall short of the ears that most needed to hear them.

Donald always seems to be short of cash and make a habit of lurching from one misadventure to the next.

The complexity, variation and uniqueness of each ear is nothing short of amazing.

This shows that the building envelope in the area of energy-saving measures fall far short of the national energy-saving standards.

The result of such an event would be nothing short of disastrous, wouldn't it?

What China has done in less than three decades is nothing short of astonishing.

Short of cash, the company had to raise $800 million from stockholders in just the last six months.

"This new threat to global recovery will probablyfall short of becoming a worldwide recessionary shock, " he said.

As the young man was very short of money, he was likely to apply for the dangerous job advertised in the paper.

It sounds impressive, but British climate policy has never been short of grand visions.

He would on no account have mentioned the fight, for, on second thoughts, it fell far short of his standards.

As I said at the outset, in just over 30 years since I first came to China, your progress has been nothing short of incredible.

It will affect you, too: western governments are going to be short of money for decades.

Even short of that, the Taliban's penetration of Pakistan's cities and institutions is cause for serious worry.

But two major problems were encountered: the cable's weight and the fact that it fell short of its intended destination.

A resolution that falls short of that outcome this Sunday will put the current market bounce in jeopardy.

But in reality, you've had to settle for something that falls a bit short of your ideal.

For those faced with a struggle, Captain James Arruda Henry's story is nothing short of inspirational.

Pre-expenditure of credit card satisfied people's desire to own something but short of money.

Gao received a suspended sentence in December for a charge of "subversion" in a trial that fell short of international fair-trial standards.

However, the statement fell well short of an agreement by China to limit the emissions of its own industries.

The proposal is all right in itself, but we is short of fund now.

What is needed is nothing short of moving voters and markets from a mood of self-fulfilling pessimism to one of confidence in the future.

Swithers stops short of saying that the animals in her study were compelled to overeat to compensate for phantom calories.

But in actual operation, owing to the short of supporting system, it has also revealed out a series of problems.

With a few interesting exceptions, the rhetoric falls well short of the reality.

Strive for elegance in designs and code, but sometimes it is better to stop short of the most elegant solution in favor of a simpler one.

To accelerate an object to the speed of light, you'd need nothing short of an infinite amount of energy.

But with rational explanations hard to come by, investors should stop short of making big moves out of equities, Mr. Stovall says.

He stopped short of asking the firms to return money and declined to say the payments were "contrary to the public interest. "

However, she falls short of delivering the complexity of a 400-year-old who spends most of her life killing things.

You may experience the information related to this watch to be short of break can be short of below certain circumstance even lose data.

In the old days people on long sea voyages used to go short of vitamin C, which made some of them fall ill.

He stopped short of saying he was one of them.

Donald always seems to be short of cash handmade habit of lurching from one misadventure tothenext.

Mr Mugabe, sycophant-surrounded and with his own foreign-currency wallet, is short of neither bread nor baubles, and may do the same.

But when you fall short of your aim, perhaps you can say, "Yes, but look at what I found along the way! "

And that might fall short of actual collaboration, but might be more than just having coffee and shooting the breeze.

Short of that, some thoughtful architects have sought to invent new ways of thinking about preservation.

We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.

Twigs snapped and leaves crackled as it galloped toward the hollow tree and stopped short of my hiding place.

Because we're short of money, we have to pull out of the project.

And an inability to delegate undermines your effectiveness as a manager more than anything else, short of embezzlement or physical abuse.

Reina has committed himself to Anfield until the end of the season, but he has stopped short of discussing his plans beyond that point.

The short of it is that long hair means there is always, at least, hope.

This falls well short of the response I'm aiming for, which is: "You are a marvel! " or at least, "Can I make you a cup of tea? "

However, the medical assistance system is still short of fund and uses the fund in an ineffective way.

To pay homage to all life only to eat the object of our reverence is nothing short of hypocrisy.

The company is short of cash at the moment.

The ball rolled to a standstill just short of the boundary.

Fortunately, short of the simplest case, the next best case is hardly any more difficult.

Dealing with her traditional European shoe buyers leaves her chronically short of cash and running to secure short-term credit.

I'm a few bricks short of a load, but a full load always hurt my back.

A long tee shot helps your chances of going at the green on the second shot. Otherwise a lay up short of the canyon is called for.

Wojciech has never been short of confidence and is now showing what he can do, " said Wilshere. "

Tired again for the mass information, for short of rational thinking action. And I can't sense the satisfaction of writing English.

I did, but they said the company was short of hands and couldn't send any man today.

They have been woefully short of it since the credit crunch.

Short of knocking down the million unsold new homes left after the property bubble burst, that will not pick up for many years.

Well short of Obama's first hundred days, the dominant characteristic of his Presidency is clear: activist government, on every front.

Try to be prompt because we'll be very short of time.

It only looks at the size of the budget deficit which is nothing short of madness in the current environment.

Short of that threshold, Egypt was free to consult its own interests.

At first I was a little worried the movie would stop short of being just a pretty romance.

However, the Fed is well short of where it wants to be in achieving its key objectives -- full employment and price stability.

The Dark Elves were always short of mercury, until one clever alchemist figured out how to extract it from subterranean lichen.