Sentences with phrase «as a backstop for»

Will the FED enact its THIRD MANDATE as a the backstop for the global financial system because of the key position of the world's reserve currency?

Repurpose the mattress as a backstop for sports (great for preventing baseballs from dinging your house or bruised noses from run - ins with basketball poles).

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.

Not exact matches

A prolonged period of heightened tension and difficult debt negotiations is a possibility, though the ECB QE is serving as a sort of backstop holding down contagion risks for now.

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

It currently runs as a kind of backstop for the organization's original automated system, and the CTBTO has asked the member states to approve it officially as a replacement.

When the economy turns down, the federal government may serve as the major fiscal backstop for public education.

As an insurer, the FHA provides a backstop to mortgage lenders who make loan which meet the agency's standards for insurance.

Once you've built some equity in your property, you may have the ability to take out a home equity loan, which could be used as a further backstop for unexpected expenses.

(You needn't take the risk yourself — some greenie organization would surely be happy to backstop you — and maybe compensate you for your time as well.)

In other water news, Hebei's role as water backstop for Beijing (see previous post «Chinese Water Torture») has been activated, while Inner Mongolia gets a new wastewater treatment plant.

In the backstop house, we modelled all the minimum backstop values for insulation, windows, airtightness and renewable energy and used a gas boiler as the heating source.

There's a case to be made for nuclear as a backstop option, but it's not nearly as strong as it was even two years ago.

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.

At the time, we noted that it was not for everyone, as its high - ish price and Windows - centric focus likely made it best for large firms looking to backstop in - house counsel at large corporations.

Those options could include direct investment or some kind of financial backstop to the project, as the Alberta government says it's prepared to make, or withholding discretionary federal spending from British Columbia to punish the provincial NDP government for delaying its own permits and threatening more court challenges to the project.

Bush said failure to create a federal backstop for insurance companies in the event of a new attack has already begun to cost jobs as construction projects are canceled due to prohibitively expensive insurance premiums.

People with character as the backstop to their personalities don't expect anything and everything of value to be handed to them on a silver platter, for free.