Sentences with phrase «as a backstop against»

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

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As a growing number of businesses choose to go 100 % renewable, it's proving to be both a major driver of investment in renewables, and an important backstop against politically - motivated backsliding and / or obstruction.

In the article and subsequent aimiable exchange with Nordhaus, Dyson touted no fewer than three possible crackpot mega-schemes as contingency «low - cost backstops» against global warming: «carbon - eating trees» covering fully a quarter of Earth's vegetated land mass, «carbon - eating phytoplankton in the oceans», and «snow - dumping in East Antarctica» (via «a giant array of tethered kites or balloons so as to block the westerly flow on one side only.»)

Around town charging stations serve as much as an incentive for emission - free vehicles, as well as a psychological backstop against range anxiety, as they do as a genuinely necessary piece of infrastructure.