She and other board members emphasized, however, that online education was merely a proxy for a deeper concern about the pace of change in higher education.
This, of course, is a particularly brutal accounting — the idea that, maybe, you never quite existed for another person but were merely a proxy, a placeholder, quietly keeping a seat warm while other, better plans were negotiated.
Others suggest that vaccines are merely a proxy for the nanny state.
In May 2008 the yellow-shirts restarted their protests, arguing that the government was merely a proxy for Mr Thaksin.
More research is needed to determine whether neonicotinoids actually cause butterfly declines or whether the pesticides are merely a proxy for something else. .
He went on to point out that after analyzing the polling data, it's clear that the American public's deficit fears don't translate into a desire for massive cuts of programs like social security, but are merely a "proxy for general anxiety".
As an innate limitation, age at diagnosis is merely a proxy variable for the actual age of onset in MD patients.
A possible explanation could be that aspirin use is merely a proxy for those at higher risk of CVD disease, although we did not see an increased risk among those with a history of CVD disease at baseline.
Although group I intron and intein insertions are targeted to a DNA sequence, this is merely a proxy for sequence conservation at the protein level, upon which purifying selection can act.
However, the strong inverse associations between childhood and adolescent BMI and absolute dense breast volume (versus non-dense volume) are not consistent with the idea that early life body fatness is merely a proxy for adult adiposity.
