backstop

Example Sentences

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Treasury would backstop the peso if voters gave the coalition the support the Argentinian president needs to govern over the next two years.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sarah Friar, the company’s chief financial officer, mused about a “backstop” from the government during an appearance at the Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live event earlier this month — comments she later walked back on LinkedIn.

From MarketWatch

The aim, it would appear, is to beef up the European offer for post-war security guarantees for Ukraine in an attempt to convince Donald Trump to promise a US military backstop.

From BBC

There had been speculation that Sir Keir had also gone into the meeting to seek a US Security "backstop" in a European peace plan for the war in Ukraine.

From BBC

"It's a backstop, you could say," he said on Thursday.

From BBC