backstop

Still, he said, the estate tax remains an important backstop.

He was silent a moment as they passed behind the backstop.

Also, it was reportedly only 33 feet to the backstop.

There was an old backstop and benches, one for each team.

Then they'd make a backstop of sand behind the hole.

"I threw the ball to the backstop a few times."

There is a backstop area behind the green and plenty of room to miss long.

The two women behind the backstop look at each other in total amazement.

If market forces did not control costs, he said, the national health care budget would serve as a backstop.

Then a girl is shown watching through a screened backstop.

Backstop will be over that area in another ten minutes now."

He ran to the backstop, bending over for a long time before taking first base.

Johnson said he thought the pitch was headed for the backstop.

With that, he and his classmates started to play, using the library wall as a backstop.

But then remembered the man leaping down from the backstop and running toward us.

The knowledge that I had a reliable backstop gave me a warm feeling.

The last of four straight balls sailed to the backstop.

You let one go every now and then, throw it to the backstop."

He threw the first pitch right over our heads to the backstop.

He trotted around one end of the backstop then turned our way and broke into a run.

The backstop for the post's baseball field was the only casualty.

These are is less likely for countries with their own central bank that can backstop public debt in a crisis.

In 2004, a new backstop and dugouts were added to the field.

"He looks to me more like the backstop," she said indifferently.