Sentence examples for economic backstop from inspiring English sources

Fiscal fumbling has compounded the problem and has strained relations with Britain, which has long provided an economic backstop.

Carney, a safe pair of hands as goalkeeper in his student ice hockey days, has become the ultimate economic backstop.

Understandably, today's elders have become economic backstops for their grown kids and grandkids—subsidizing them, housing them, co-signing their loans, funding extended-family vacations, and setting up college trust funds.

Title: Managing director of the IMF Country: France Age: 59 Appointed managing director of the International Monetary Fund in 2011, Christine Lagarde is the first woman to head the organization, which serves as the economic adviser and backstop for 188 countries.

Christine Lagarde is entering the last year of her first term heading the International Monetary Fund, the organization which serves as economic advisor and backstop for 188 countries.

Though this is more likely to impact China once again as it is the market most impacted by tariffs and has state support backstopping economic weakness.

The treasury secretary this week laid to rest any hope among Wall Streeters that he'll backstop the departing economic adviser in battling the administration's ascendant protectionists.

FRANKFURT — The International Monetary Fund granted Poland a $20.5 billion credit line on Tuesday, using a facility intended to backstop countries with sound economic policies that have been caught short by the global financial crisis.

FRANKFURT -- The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday granted Poland a $20.5 billion credit line from a fund designed to backstop countries with sound economic policies that have been caught short by the global financial crisis.

Northern Ireland's traditionally unionist farming and business leaders have supported the backstop, saying it makes economic sense, and warned that killing May's deal risks a disastrous no-deal exit.

But there is widespread agreement among policy makers on at least this element of investors' argument, which is that you cannot keep a cheap, long-term, fixed-rate mortgage available to the wide swath of Americans through big economic ups and downs without some sort of government backstop.