Sentence examples for acted as a safety from inspiring English sources

Damian Brayko, the operations manager at Cover Oregon, the state marketplace, said the out-of-pocket limit acted as a safety net for patients with chronic illnesses.

In these circumstances, borrowing could have acted as a safety valve for ordinary people to increase living standards – but on borrowed time.

It was feared that the lake would pour over the top and burst down the valley but fortunately the river gouged out an escape route along the side of the landblock which acted as a safety valve and limited the damage.The need to reverse the denuding of forests has been proclaimed time and again by the government but to no effect.

An announcement is expected very soon - with rumours flying that the cabinet will decide that it will not take a 'precautionary credit line' (which would have acted as a safety net in case Dublin struggled to borrow in the financial money markets).

In a threatening context, perceived threat of pain mediated the inhibitory effect of social presence on pain expression, suggesting that the observer acted as a safety signal.

This had a twofold purpose, as it acted as a safety precaution and a support for additional banking and terracing.

Membership of the euro, Europe's single currency, now rules out devaluation, which for many years acted as a safety-valve for Italian business.

The programme at first acted as a safety-net for the Kurds, who had been reeling under the double whammy of international sanctions on Iraq and internal sanctions imposed on their area from Baghdad.

"We thought business interests would act as a safety net.

Proponents of fighting argue that it acts as a safety valve preventing more dangerous acts.

We crave possessions because they anchor us and act as a safety blanket.