"direct proxy" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to something or someone that directly represents or stands in for another entity. Example: "The company's CEO serves as a direct proxy for shareholders at annual meetings."
A direct proxy of the Iranian general Qassem Suleimani, who has extraordinary influence across Iran's sphere of influence, Asa'ib is untouchable in Baghdad and feared around the country.
i – while not a direct proxy, it is the most recent new national newspaper to launch – saw its sales drop from about 180,000 to under 100,000 after launching in 2010.
Lacking any direct proxy for workers' effort and paid-for training in our panel dataset, our indirect strategy is to embed these variables into firms' TFP, which can then be estimated from the available data on their output and inputs.
Those looking at this premise have a nagging feeling that maximizing profit (a direct proxy capital markets use to measure maximizing value) may in fact, not be maximizing value.
This has only served to fuel speculation that what's going on in Tripoli is not just linked to the Syrian civil war, but is actually a direct proxy of it – with the Alawites of Jabal Mohsen supporting embattled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and the Sunnis of Bab al-Tabbaneh on the side of the rebels who are trying to topple him.
High HSIs are indicative of high total lipid energy, which is known as a direct proxy to egg production in gadoid fish [17].
Therefore, the concentration parameters k and SIRM can be considered to be reliable and direct proxies of precipitation in this study.
Environmental conditions relating to hydrological transportation and connectivity (slope, degree of surface saturation, soil water content) were found to exert greater influence over concentrations of P in rivers than direct proxies of sources of P (e.g. human population level or land use).
Systematic counts along transects of the resting platforms, or 'nests', that orangutans build have therefore been used as predictors, or as direct proxies, for population density.
Following a methodology developed elsewhere (Boyce et al., 2010), three income/wealth rank variables were created for each individual to represent the rank of their income/wealth within three different comparison groups, as more direct proxies for their social rank.
With a directed proxy, the shareholder tells the proxy holder to vote for specific candidates.
