Sentence examples for as a backstop should from inspiring English sources
The EPA action had been seen as a backstop should Congress fail to pass climate change law.
While Democrats have total control of the legislature in most of the states considering drug price control legislation this year, many of those states fortunately have Republican governors who could serve as a backstop, should this innovation and investment-stifling legislation be approved by state lawmakers.
In fact, Ford doesn't require a bridge loan, and isn't asking for one -- they may have enough cash to weather the storm, but are requesting a line of credit as a backstop should things get worse.
Nonetheless, Mr. Schneiderman is seen by some as a possible backstop should the president exercise his pardon power to help those who might become ensnared in the investigation of possible Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election being led by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel.
As the sovereign-debt crisis threatened Ireland, Portugal, Spain and perhaps others, a €440 billion fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), was conjured up in a weekend (with promises of €250 billion more from the IMF) as a backstop for countries should they be shut out of bond markets.
The backstop should be a nonreflective surface.
Instead, the backstop should be an acceptable deficit reduction program like Simpson-Bowles.
Horta-Osório warned that such ratios could restrict lending while Hester said the ratio should be seen "as a backstop, not a primary control of risk".
With animal activists being upset with the Miami Marlins using a fish tank as a backstop, they claim the noise will be upsetting to the fish, I wrote, "Someone should tell the activists that baseballs are made of cowhide".
In this framework, there is a long-term contract market as well as a backstop spot market.
