Sentence examples for backstop for from inspiring English sources

It has blocked Eurobonds and a common backstop for banks.

There is no equivalent backstop for commodities accounts.

There is no such backstop for state or municipal pensions.

Those discussions increasingly center on creating a better kind of backstop for mortgage lending, officials said.

But the court is the world's backstop for prosecuting genocide, war crimes and other enormities.

Obviously, this combination would provide a needed backstop for West Penn.

He showed us a hill of sand that served as the backstop for the rifle range.

Scuttle the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), Obamacare's main backstop for spending.

The next pitch cut when it should have sunk, and bounced to the backstop for a game-tying wild pitch.

There should be a separation and there certainly should not be a taxpayer backstop for their losses.

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