Sentence examples for their backstop from inspiring English sources

Republicans realize their backstop in the White House is now gone and their sole chance to help shape legislation is in Congress.

It was a startling twist for the Rangers, who saw their backstop kneeling, clearly shaken, just 10 minutes into the game as the Devils surged to a three-goal lead in an eventual 5-3 victory.

BRUSSELS — Fighting to support the euro amid continuing market uncertainty, European finance ministers played for time on Tuesday, making no pledge to increase their backstop fund for the currency and hinting that Portugal might need to take additional measures to fend off speculative attacks.

When they don't have the law or the facts or the science on their side, they attempt to reduce the argument to one of right vs. wrong and invoke the will of God as their backstop.

"The Qataris' approach to things is very ambitious, punch above their weight, be involved in as many arenas as possible, but have that core American military relationship as their security backstop, and then have relationships with all sorts of groups and people," said Mr. Gause, who is affiliated with the Doha office of Brookings.

In Pennsylvania, not only are Scranton and Harrisburg struggling with bond guarantees, but another troubled city, Allentown, is defending itself against lawsuits by surrounding communities, accusing it of a convoluted plan to make their residents backstop an authority's bonds for a new hockey arena.

The plan doesn't just aim at foreign depositors, largely Russians, who have placed money in Cyprus's bloated banking sector; it is also expected to hit ordinary Cypriot savers who thought their government was backstopping their deposits.

Private and quasi-private "too big to fail" companies (major banks, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac) could be hit by higher operating costs as a lower credit rating would raise questions about the viability of their federal backstops.

"The markets need to have reassurance from governments that they are going to take care of their budget deficits and going to backstop their banks," he said.

In 2008 and 2009, the decisions by these governments to do "whatever it takes" to backstop their financial systems and keep their economies afloat soothed investor concerns.

It doesn't want to backstop their finances.