Sentence examples for to be a stopgap from inspiring English sources

But it was always meant to be a stopgap.

But these solutions seem to be a stopgap measure, at best.

The Royal British Legion, an armed-forces charity, points out that the AFCS was only meant to be a stopgap until the old War Pensions Scheme could be properly replaced.

With its numbered cabins and cavernous tents, basic amenities and sole basketball ring, Eleonas was only ever intended to be a stopgap solution for the migrant wave on the road through Greece.

It was quickly replaced by a few ugly, white, prefabricated tents that were said to be a stopgap measure since Intrawest had plans for a quaint base village modeled after the ones the company had built at Mont Tremblant in Quebec and Stratton in Vermont.

The agency's critics were supported by a soil scientist at Cornell University, Murray McBride, who submitted an opinion in June 2005 that the current reliance on capping "seems to me to be a stopgap, short-term approach" that fails to account for the way chromium moves in the soil and may migrate to basements and other exposed areas.

But Chavez may not always have pots of money to throw around, so Venezuelan aid was only going to ever be a stopgap lifeline.

While voice may be a stopgap to getting to AR (or maybe this is what AR in the end looks like), it's clear that it's going to be the thing in 2017 where machine learning and VR were the thing in 2016.

It was supposed to be a one-time stopgap measure, but now Democrats want to extend the financial assistance with $2.5 million more.

The source said the Prime Minister would inform Mr Tusk that the brake "should only be a stopgap to a more permanent mechanism".

And there remained anxiety abroad that any agreement would be a stopgap, leading to another round of brinkmanship in a few months.