Sentences with phrase «as a backstop only»

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 speaks not only to Trump's limitations as a chief executive but also to Kelly's weaknesses as the «grown - up» chief of staff who's supposed to serve as the president's backstop.

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.»)