The phrase "a direct proxy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a representative or intermediary that acts on behalf of someone or something in a straightforward manner.
Example: "In this situation, the consultant acted as a direct proxy for the company's interests during negotiations."
Alternatives: "an immediate representative" or "a straightforward intermediary."
A direct proxy of the Iranian general Qassem Suleimani, who has extraordinary influence across Iran's sphere of influence, Asa'ib is untouchable in Baghdad and feared around the country.
i – while not a direct proxy, it is the most recent new national newspaper to launch – saw its sales drop from about 180,000 to under 100,000 after launching in 2010.
However, his claim to be fighting a defensive war in Syria has been scorned by much of the Sunni world, which sees Hezbollah as a direct proxy of Iran's Shia Islamic leaders.
The main Syrian Kurdish armed group, known as the YPG, is seen by Turkey as a direct proxy of the outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party, or PKK, which operates inside Turkey and is considered a terrorist organization by Ankara and Washington.
For every successful business in the U.S., there is most likely a direct proxy in China -- some only fundamentally similar, others more blatantly so.
Those looking at this premise have a nagging feeling that maximizing profit (a direct proxy capital markets use to measure maximizing value) may in fact, not be maximizing value.
With a directed proxy, the shareholder tells the proxy holder to vote for specific candidates.
Mr. Weinstein said that if a shareholder wants some added assurance that the shares will be voted in a certain way, the shareholder can make what is called a directed proxy and give it to someone he trusts will show up to vote.
Lacking any direct proxy for workers' effort and paid-for training in our panel dataset, our indirect strategy is to embed these variables into firms' TFP, which can then be estimated from the available data on their output and inputs.
First, it employs a more direct proxy for utility.
"To give the Interior Ministry to a direct Iranian proxy is huge," said one researcher specializing in Shiite groups.
