Sentence examples for become a proxy measure from inspiring English sources

Body counts often become a proxy measure of a tragic event's significance; as the historian Karel Bartosek has written, they are "a mathematical truth" that "transforms mass deaths into a kind of sacrament".

And third, because this has already become a proxy war.

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.

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

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

Hague says this session should not become a proxy debate on Tony Blair.

He has become a proxy for Singapore's own internal battles.

Sports has become a proxy for life's deficiencies.

Yemen has become a proxy battleground for regional Sunni and Shiite Muslim powers.

The annual MALABAR naval exercise has become a proxy for Asia-Pacific countries' anxieties over China.