Sentences with phrase «acts as a backstop»

Its members do not instinctually follow the governor, but rather act as a backstop for traditional liberal interests while governors from George Pataki or now Cuomo try to pull negotiations to the right.

California's cap - and - trade program acts as a backstop to ensure its overall greenhouse gas target is met, regardless of the performance of these complementary measures.

Under its 2008 Climate Change Act, the UK already has stronger commitments than under EU law, but Brussels acts as a backstop.

The ICD agrees that voluntary term limits can «act as a backstop against excessive tenure lengths».

In addition to this you want to have professional paperwork in order which will act as a backstop should your screening fail to flush out a bad resident.

But the predominant view was that the backing should look more like catastrophic insurance, with the federal government acting as a backstop only after private insurers took the first hit.

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It is meant to act as a «backstop» to a bank's core capital ratios which are based on the riskiness of assets.

The assumption among many analysts was that the backstop acted as laundering system for soft Brexit.

But even if the backstop doesn't provide soft Brexit as a fait accompli, it still acts as the first domino in a chain of events which seem to lead to it.

UPDATE, 10:30 p.m.: As a backstop should legislation falter (and / or prod to move things along), the Obama administration expanded its actions to curtail greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act today, as wellAs a backstop should legislation falter (and / or prod to move things along), the Obama administration expanded its actions to curtail greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act today, as wellas well.]