Sentence examples for a valuable proxy from inspiring English sources
A Hamas defeat by Israel would deprive Iran not only of a valuable proxy force on the border with Israel but of a trump card to play with Washington, and it would further alienate it from the leadership of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
It was one thing for American spies to be lurking around the tribal areas, hunting for Al Qaeda figures; it was quite another to go into Pakistani cities on espionage missions against a group that the I.S.I. considered a valuable proxy force in its continuing battle with India.
Family members are a valuable proxy for patient experience in ICU.
This approach suggests the use of non-response as a valuable proxy of socio-emotional skills because of several reasons.
While growing visitor numbers to a website was once a good barometer of the potential of a business, it is no longer considered a valuable proxy.
For the same reason, nulliparity among married women might be seen as a valuable proxy for reduced fertility.
Quality of life is a particularly valuable proxy of the success of active ageing services.
On the other hand it might be that CTVB represents a categorical and valuable proxy marker of these known disadvantages giving social scientists and public health physicians an indication of where to focus preventative health measures.
The pollen results suggest that magnetic susceptibility is a valuable paleoclimate proxy of the Tianzhu fluvial sequence.
Multi-proxy geochemical characterization of the soil organic matter (SOM) shows that especially (i) the stable carbon isotopic composition (δ13C) of the grass-derived alkanes nC31 and nC33, (ii) the alkane ratio nC31/nC27 and (iii) lacustrine-derived short- and mid-chain alkanes are valuable proxies for the reconstruction of the palaeoenvironment.
