Sentence examples for backstopped this from inspiring English sources

But it is Brodeur – a one-club man in an age when hockey players are traded almost as frequently as their counterparts in baseball – who backstopped this success, and who saw comparatively little sneak behind him.

Unless America is willing to liquidate billions in further bailouts and stimulus every several years, and even if China is willing to backstop this kind of profligate spending, today's status quo will not find stability because consumers themselves have become a threatened resource.

The game will run on a custom-built engine which Bethesda is calling Void, and it certainly looks effective; especially backstopped with this kind of attention to detail in the level design.

It is backstopped in this promise by its own self-insurance.

Brodeur, who backstopped the Devils to a 3-2 vintory in Game 7 in Ottawa in this season's Eastern Conference finals, is 4-3 in seventh games.

This spring, he has been better than in 1995, when he backstopped the Devils to the Stanley Cup title with a goals-against average of 1.67.

Second, let's take nothing away from Rask, who has so far been stellar in this series, backstopping the Bruins to a commanding 5-2 win on Monday night to ruin Toronto's playoff homecoming and take a 2-1 series lead.

I think we'll get significantly more than that back, so we have a substantial amount of resources to backstop the system in this process, and that's a good thing.

Backstopping all this glamour and hype are the canal and related ports.

A big slice of this is "guarantee claims", or debts that affiliates argue the holding company had backstopped (see chart).In this section Automatic reaction Bank rupture Making the grade Taking cover Jewel gets crown Yes minister, minister Mission unaccomplished The cycle lane ReprintsLehman units are also chasing third parties.

This dialogue must be backstopped with concrete strategic cooperation on issues such as missile defense, access to Afghanistan and diplomacy with Iran.