Sentence examples for a statutory backstop for from inspiring English sources

May did not not rule out a statutory backstop for a new press regulator, but warned about possible "unintended consequences".

Despite Rousseff not making any statements herself about the calls to ban the ad, Lopes, when notifying the National Council for Advertising Self-regulation – an independent advertising regulatory body with a statutory backstop – of her wish to have the ads banned, she was most certainly echoing the president's thoughts on the matter.

The phone-hacking scandal has led to a clamour that self-regulation of the press has failed and that there is a need for better/tighter/more regulation, ranging from: Direct statutory regulation A statutory backstop Statutory mechanisms that would put some of the carrots and sticks into statute A myriad of hybrid variants in between.

Ian Burrell, The Independent's media editor, considers the problem of a statutory backstop by looking at Ofcom through the eyes of a broadcasting news executive who deals with the communications regulator.

All major news publishers – and some internet news providers – have indicated they will join such a system provided there is no statutory backstop.

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

Gilberto Reyes had a brief career as a backstop for the Dodgers, and now works at a nursing home in Albuquerque, N.M. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times).

I hesitate to suggest a statutory remedy for shareholder neglect.

London Assembly Labour Group Economy spokesperson Fiona Twycross has called for a statutory status for the London Living Wage.

The UK would also "make Prevent a statutory duty for public bodies", she said.

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.