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The new banking rules also are a sensitive matter for central and eastern European countries that remain outside the euro area and that could be more exposed to the threat of a run on banks that do not fall under the authority of a new pan-European regulator nor are backstopped by the European Stability Mechanism bailout fund.

The only reason 30-year fixed-rate mortgages exist so widely is because they are backstopped by the GSEs or government-sponsored enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which guarantee $5 trillion in home mortgage debt.

The White House is betting that by arming households with new information about how students from certain schools fare during and after college, it will transform a sector that has largely escaped accountability for jacking up tuition or larding students with unaffordable debts that ultimately are backstopped by taxpayers.

*Each end zone is backstopped by nets that are 30 feet wide and 32 feet high.

That group would be backstopped by billions of dollars in bank financing as well.

Such progress must be backstopped by a broader effort to continue deepening ties between Russia and the West.

The Americans will be backstopped by Mike Richter of the Rangers, the Canadians by Martin Brodeur of the Devils.

Greece, its debt downgraded to junk status, clung to solvency and was backstopped by an international rescue package.

"But the fact that the market is being backstopped by the prospect of additional Fed support I think is making investors more confident of stepping in," he said.

They were backstopped by goalkeeper Carl Braun, who would grow to 6ft 5in and went on to star for the New York Knicks in the National Basketball Association.

Every merchant services application I have seen has required a Social Security number and demanded that all card transactions be backstopped by my own assets.