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"The longstop date for the placing is 25 February 2011… the number of shares in the company to be placed is 450,000,000 representing approximately 14.11% of the issued share capital of the company as at the date of the placing agreement… Once the shares in the company have been placed, their disclosure obligation will cease and their interests removed from the disclosure register."

Tessa Sanderson ordered to sit out Olympic Stadium legacy meetings 2011

However, Peter Hoskin is doing an admirable job down at longstop. e&oe phil

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

When earlier this year I gave a somewhat ill-fated lecture on the subject of law, one of the points I was trying to make was precisely this: the state remains the longstop guarantor of certain liberties, notably the liberties of those whose dignity may not always be affirmed very visibly by particular religious communities: women, for example.

Archbishop's lecture celebrating 60th Anniversary of the William Temple Foundation 2008

There are problems, yes – and they do require vigilance from and occasional intervention by MPs, who are the longstop in the system.

Archive 2007-01-01 Richard 2007

Its enforcement role would be largely localised in practice through the local coalitions of covenanted states; but a reformed Security Council might have more authority if its resolutions could be both prompted by and executed by local democratic coalitions – a concrete example of UN structures acting as a moral longstop, responding to local perception of crisis and backing specific interventions or policies to contain the crisis.

'Internationalism and Beyond' Speech on the occasion of a fund raising dinner for the Anglican Observer to the United Nations Connecticut, USA 2004