Sentence examples for the backstops of from inspiring English sources

Davy Rothbart, the publisher of the magazine Found, knows where to look: the floors of city buses, the recycling bins behind Kinko's, the backstops of windblown ball fields.

With Martin considered the catcher of the present, and Montero and Romine the backstops of the future, the 39-year-old Posada is trying to adjust to his new role while keeping the lightest possible hand in his old one.

The backstop of a veto gives bite to the committees that do the scrutiny.

But clarity about the backstop of legal protection is also critical.

Supporters of the rule argue that banks should not make risky wagers while enjoying the backstop of government deposit insurance.

I'm writing this on the Riverside promenade — precisely, on the half-length park bench facing the backstop of the ball field around West 103rd Street.

But there is also the backstop of the central government, which has formal debts amounting to only about 25% of GDP.

Without the backstop of the influential Mr Klaus, their future looks bleak.But the Czech left has hardly been a model of competence in recent years.

Because Andersen is a partnership, its partner-owners do not have a typical pension with the backstop of the Pension Benefits Guaranty Corporation, which makes payments when companies go bankrupt.

The greenback overtook sterling in reserves barely a decade after the founding of the Federal Reserve in 1913 as the backstop of dollar liquidity.

Given the precariousness of its credit rating, Italy needs the backstop of the ECB continuing to buy its bonds in order to prevent Greek-style default spreading.