Sentence examples for be a proxy fight from inspiring English sources

With a Crist-Rubio matchup, Florida's Republican Senate primary could be a proxy fight for the party's soul.

Representative Jeb Hensarling, Republican of Texas, said the debate over coverage of children was "a proxy fight" between advocates for two competing visions.

This isn't a testy conversation about a single issue, it's a proxy fight in public about the exercise of power post-election, wrote Guardian Australia's Katharine Murphy.

In truth, the signage controversy is a proxy fight.

The election has been a proxy fight between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky).

It may seem petty, but the Reid-Broder battle is a proxy fight between two competing approaches to politics.

In many ways, the dispute over information access at the Fire Department was a proxy fight between two former elected officials: Villaraigosa and Trutanich.

WEIGHING A FIGHT Carl C. Icahn, the billionaire investor, is said to be considering a proxy fight for seats on Yahoo's board in an attempt to push the company to restart talks with Microsoft, less than two weeks after Microsoft withdrew its $47.5 billion offer.

Carl C. Icahn called the plan "a poison pill" (that was when he was waging a proxy fight against the Yahoo board, on which he now sits).

According to CNBC, he is considering a proxy fight and may be buying up as many as 50 million shares.

It shows how the war is largely a proxy fight between rival militias that are being armed and encouraged by Rwanda's government and by Congo's.