1. The government agreed to backstop companies that invested in oil exploration.

2. In their opinion, such deficiencies clearly led to inadequate administrative back-stopping and faulty interpersonal relations.

3. You are the key backstop of any relationship.

4. Fisher .'Collateral should only be a backstop.

5. The government recently introduced an insurance program to backstop money funds.

6. He acted as a backstop in case anything went wrong.

7. The guarantee would provide a backstop to commercial - lending losses on loans to suppliers.

8. But under the European plan, the only backstop is the principal in the EFSF.

9. It provided Asia with a new backstop financing facility -- in essence,(sentence dictionary) a self-insurance fund that came in very handy in successfully cushioning the blows of an unprecedented global shock.

10. As a backstop, China's government, with little debt and large foreign reserves, has deep pockets.

11. Students lobbed questions at Gould as if he were a backstop, questions on evolution, genetics, religion.

12. The market for corporate control has got general attention as a backstop mechanism for disciplining management.

13. As part of the plan, the government would insure new preferred debt issued by banks and backstop all non-interest paying deposits, the paper said on its Website.

14. It'suggests private capital will be attracted if the government continues to backstop deals.

15. Vines are a group of plant that cannot stand erectly by themselves; they need to draw support from other plant or backstop to grow upwardly.

16. California State Treasurer Bill Lockyer last week asked Geithner to tap the bailout fund to provide a backstop for billions of dollars in notes for states and municipalities.

17. Most reform proposals to date, however, still envisage a permanent federal backstop.