Sentence examples for a sort of proxy from inspiring English sources

In the old world, I would use the social hack of finding out which university your degree came from and whether you had paid back a car loan a decade ago as a sort of proxy for things I wanted to know about you.

The election has become a sort of proxy war for the Arab-Israeli conflict.

To prosecutors, he is a victim of harassment based on sexual orientation — a sort of proxy for Mr. Clementi.

It's become a sort of proxy fight over the Bush tax cuts and the broader issues of income inequality.

But once it became clear that the number of followers each contestant had was a sort of proxy for popularity on the show, the accounts were pulled.

Snape becomes a sort of proxy for every stern blowhard who ever gave us lines or seemed overly harsh in the classroom.

A: Sort of.

By taking its cues from popular opinion and from public-interest pressure groups, by being a sort of sincere proxy for democracy, it has become an effective critic of the commission's many shortcomings.

He would never end himself, but he commits a sort of suicide by proxy, letting Will drag him down as they fly together toward the eroding shore of life.

"To me, you've now got in Europe a sort of government-by-proxy of everybody, which has now got carried away.

We should all worry about central banks engaging in "competitive devaluations", a sort of currency war by proxy.