Sentence examples for become a proxy for from inspiring English sources

Syria, among many other things, has become a proxy for Russian-Western rivalry as well as the standoff between Shias and Sunnis.

Gay marriage has become a proxy for other undisciplined craziness running through their veins, from hunting to Europe, privatising the NHS to breaking up the BBC, loathing windmills, loving fracking.

It gives the impression that knowledge has become a proxy for influence.

A taster: Europe has become a proxy for people's sense of powerlessness.

In fact this has become a proxy for two other arguments.

"I will become a proxy for the anger that some women still feel towards Hughes.

Rahul: Open data has become a proxy for open thinking, but it's useless unless you have engagement and open engagement.

In many ways they [asylum seekers] have become a proxy for other issues like infrastructure and traffic congestion".

Thanks to the Hollywood Stock Exchange, America's obsession with Hollywood has now become a proxy for Wall Street.

If he becomes Serbia's president, the Bosnian Serb Republic's creeping civil war may become a proxy for a struggle between him and Yugoslavia's president, Slobodan Milosevic.

And in a city where economic inequality yawns wide, class has in some ways become a proxy for race.