Also use utmost caution if considering short-term temporary health coverage intended as a stop-gap measure.
And the bail-out that has just been rejected was only meant as a stop-gap.
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Hence the move among American carmakers to concentrate instead on more familiar stop-gap technologies.
"It's going to be a very short stop-gap, " said Andrew Sullivan, analyst at Piper Jaffray.
In truth, the ruling only creates a stop-gap resolution, helping the movie studios that joined in the case against Fung.
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The stop-gap measure was needed amid disagreements between Democrats and Republicans - and it ensures funding until March next year.
The stop-gap deals that have been proposed do not necessarily mean that we will avert recession or more serious downturn.
Yet this initiative, intended to provide a test bed that can double as a stop-gap defensive capability, is clearly inadequate.
Lib Dem spokeswoman Baroness Sharp of Guildford complained about the speed at which it was being rushed through but supported it as a "stop-gap measure".
Other shorter term stop-gap measures currently being debated just won't help.
The US has instead maintained the government's spending through a series of stop-gap bills, the latest of which is set to expire on 27 March.
But whatever the geometry, this should not be seen as a stop-gap multi-speed Europe, with leaders and laggards, pioneers and free-riders, the bold and the pusillanimous.
The "Barnett Floor" would provide a stop-gap measure to address the fact that the gap between spending in Wales and spending in England can diminish over time.
Under these circumstances, diversification among such sources is but a stop-gap solution that can, at best, have a temporary effect on oil supply and, hence, on national security.
Privately, some right-wing leaders admit that Mr Lavin is an expendable stop-gap until the 2005 election, when they expect that a worn-out Concertacion will be easier to beat.
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And another, Josef Tosovsky, now an ardent free-marketeer, will get back his old job as head of the central bank, having been running the country's stop-gap government as caretaker.
Earlier this spring, Congress approved a stop-gap budget law that would, among other things, ease budget cuts for the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Homeland Security, Justice, and Veterans Affairs.
Although some argue that he is just a stop-gap solution while others strikers are injured, his career thus far backs up his intention to make the most of the opportunity.
It could also be a vital stop-gap, "preventing hasty youngsters from rushing into courses which many will simply give up or not find useful to find a future career", it says.
Should Congress vote and fail to pass a bill, Obama also says he will instruct Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, to introduce a stop-gap measure in an up-or-down vote.
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The US has not passed a full budget plan in four years, instead maintaining the government's spending through a series of stop-gap bills, the latest of which is set to expire on 27 March.
The Supreme Court's ruling is only a stop-gap.
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But having it be one of the stop-gap measures before someone takes their own life, the place someone turns at what might be the most vulnerable moment in their (often young) lives, is something else.
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Consulting with the agency's lawyers, Mr. Donahoe started late last year to look at how the language of the stop-gap measure currently funding federal government operations might free the Postal Service to end Saturday service.
Among Christian Democrats, only Kurt Biedenkopf, the 70-year-old premier of the eastern state of Saxony (who may still have an outside chance of becoming the party's stop-gap leader), is more liked in the country at large.
Sanchez said he expects that ultimately a deal will get done before the deadline, or a small stop-gap measure will be agreed to in order to buy more time, which would cause gold prices to retreat.
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Attempting to retard this positive evolutionary process by stop-gap measures such as the present trade agreement with a reconfigured union will probably only result in increased estrangement and desperation on the part of the most independent republics.
Neither Congress nor the Senate are likely to do any real business now until after Christmas, meaning there is little chance of getting anything more than a very short-term stop-gap into the statute books by 1 January.
So he might act as a stop-gap.
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It's to prove that Apple actually has something of a track record for saying that it's sorry, and in the case of Maps, going so far as to recommend its chief rivals (Google and Nokia) by name as stop-gap alternatives.
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