Sentence examples for a backstop plan for from inspiring English sources

While European finance ministers pledged this week that they would have a backstop plan for vulnerable banks, in practice that task will be left to national banking regulators, who have varying levels of resources and political will.

He says Ofcom would have reservations about being a backstop regulator for the press.

It will also reduce its program for lending Treasury securities, and it will eliminate a special loan program created as a backstop for money market mutual funds.

The company had withdrawn an earlier bid over the weekend because the federal government refused to provide a backstop for the deal the way it had for Bear Stearns.

Those opposing reform argue that emergency rooms are always available as a backstop for those without insurance.

The state is acting as a backstop for informal monitoring: in stable societies, transactions between strangers are mostly self-policing.

A fund of 440 billion euros (about $600 billion) was set up in May as a backstop for European countries.

For this to work, there must be a European banking resolution mechanism to recapitalize banks and provide a backstop for a euro-zone-wide deposit guarantee scheme.

Second, banks will at last agree to a deposit-insurance scheme, a backstop for savers if a bank ever goes bust.

"There is now a backstop for Greece, so that the scenarios that were circulating in terms of potential failure are now completely irrelevant," he said.

In a statement, Mr. Bush said the stockpile was created as a backstop for times when the supply of oil has been seriously disrupted, such as a war.