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Backstop
Backstop Back"stop`, n.
1. In baseball, a fence, prop. at least 90 feet behind the
home base, to stop the balls that pass the catcher; also,
the catcher himself.
2. In rounders, the player who stands immediately behind the
striking base.
3. In cricket, the longstop; also, the wicket keeper.
Meaning of Backstop from wikipedia
- Look up
backstop in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Backstop may
refer to:
Backstop (baseball), a
screen behind a field's home
plate Catcher, a defensive...
- In geology, a
backstop is the
region of
forearcs that has much
higher shear strength and
yield strength than
other overriding material closer to the oceanic...
- The
Irish backstop (formally the
Northern Ireland Protocol) was a
proposed protocol to a
draft Brexit withdrawal agreement that
never came into force....
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indoor ranges consist of
firing lines/lanes,
targets and a
bullet trap/"
backstop" (which
prevents stray shots and overpenetrations).
Design considerations...
-
Operation Backstop was a
United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR)
military plan
designed to
guard a
portion of the
United Nations Protected Areas (UNPAs)...
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Landmine (replacing Ward Perry),
Scott McNeil as the
voices of
Snarl and
Backstop,
Brian Dobson reprising the role of Red Alert,
Richard Newman as the voice...
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Backstop resources theory states that as a
heavily used
limited resource becomes expensive,
alternative resources will
become cheap by comparison, therefore...
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Agreement which replaced the
backstop with a new
protocol on
Northern Ireland/Republic of Ireland. The key
differences with the
backstop are: A
unilateral exit...
-
Maher approved and
announced a new
editing group for NPR,
called "the
Backstop",
which caused internal anxiety.
Numerous employees expressed concern that...
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trade deal
between the EU and UK. On the
Irish border question, the
Irish backstop was
appended to the
agreement setting a fall-back
position if effective...
