Sentence examples for backstopped them from inspiring English sources

He backstopped them to two consecutive games at home, where the Wild were able to hold the Avs to a low shot count.

McLean's peak with the Canucks came during the subsequent 1994 Stanley Cup playoffs, when he backstopped them to the seventh game of the Stanley Cup Finals.

"We have to backstop them at every stage," Colonel Voorhees said.

Capital flight would accelerate, weakening banks and the sovereigns responsible for backstopping them.

But he did not say the United States was prepared to backstop them to prevent the crisis from spreading.

"The French government would never let any major banks fail, so of course we have money available" to backstop them, the regulator said.

If we want companies to take risks at the technological and innovative frontier, society has to backstop them and underwrite part of the risk.

Anna, Vronsky and Levin are in their early 30s, young in today's terms, but Tolstoy doesn't provide them with an earlier generation to backstop them, or to be remembered.

Montreal will count on Carey Price to backstop them as well under pressure as he did Team Canada at the Olympics, but Price (while sometimes carrying the squad) is always better when he seems confident in what's happening in front of him.

So, lenders do participate in the government guaranteed programs, but this also increases the default rate because, like Fannie Mae guaranteeing home mortgages in the states before the housing crisis, the lenders no longer care about credit analysis or collection efforts because they always have the government backstopping them.

Their mothers were calling to them from behind the backstop, letting them know that it was time to get home.