The amount of detail and administrative backstopping seems unbearable at times in such matters.

The mission had to be fail-safe, thus the backstopping.

Mostly thanks to the backstopping of Backstrom and Harding.

This "technical backstopping" is vital for Ethiopia's recovery from decades of drought, famine, disease, and war.

"You have the conn." Beck smiled too; he appreciated Stissinger's backstopping and support.

Consequently, as the dying and grieving continue, support groups of various kinds are being formed around the country, offering AIDS-stricken families some kind of comfort and psychological backstopping that does not end with the patient's death.

If this fellow dug too deep into his records ... Metcalfe couldn't be sure how thorough the backstopping had been, how many layers of validating records existed to back up the Daniel Eigen identity.

On ESPN, other cable outlets and local news programs, columnists depart temporarily from print journalism, with its backstopping of editors, to offer viewpoints that, if inappropriate, may be deleted only if the program is taped.

- The Washington Post; "blob of lumpy sentimentality about the lumpen-proletariat redeemed by a routinely brilliant performance by Marcello Mastroianni, dependably virile backstopping by Renato Salvatori, pungent Italian dialogue and boisterous bits of business."

But any assumption of a security role by a United Nations force would raise questions of air support and other military backstopping from the allies, who came to the region prepared for confrontations both with the estimated 30,000 Iraqi troops in the north and with thousands of Kurdish guerrillas fighting for autonomy.

It took a while to start up the production and get rid of all sources of contamination, but this was eventually achieved with the backstopping of IITA, CAB International and Roy Bateman of IPARC, who installed the latest version of the MycoHarvester v.3.