Sentence examples for a direct proxy of from inspiring English sources
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.
This has only served to fuel speculation that what's going on in Tripoli is not just linked to the Syrian civil war, but is actually a direct proxy of it – with the Alawites of Jabal Mohsen supporting embattled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and the Sunnis of Bab al-Tabbaneh on the side of the rebels who are trying to topple him.
Therefore the claim that gene expression should be taken as a direct proxy of increased or reduced activations of these signaling cascades should be toned-down.
Nevertheless, it should be noted that fibroblast period measures are not a direct proxy for measures of physiological period: for some subjects, considerable differences between the two were observed, and physiological period differences between sighted and blind subjects were absent entirely in fibroblasts.
This can be attributed to the general consensus that income is a direct proxy for affordability of foods (Turrell et al., 2003; Kant & Graubard, 2007).
However, we caution that attendance is not a direct proxy for the effects of instruction.
32 As economic difficulties cannot be conceptualised as a direct proxy for income and the effects of income have previously been shown to attenuate after considering further key socioeconomic circumstances, 6 one might have assumed that for example housing tenure as a more stable indicator of wealth would contribute to the associations.
High HSIs are indicative of high total lipid energy, which is known as a direct proxy to egg production in gadoid fish [17].
Adherence to the prescribed intervention was measured during the study period by using reported filter usage as a non-direct proxy of water treatment behaviors.
With a directed proxy, the shareholder tells the proxy holder to vote for specific candidates.
Therefore, the concentration parameters k and SIRM can be considered to be reliable and direct proxies of precipitation in this study.
