Sentence examples for fair proxy from inspiring English sources

The stock market used to be a fair proxy for the state of the economy.

Thus the smoking rate for the state as a whole may be a fair proxy for the county smoking rate.

She drew her data from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)—not a perfect indicator of inventiveness, but probably a fair proxy for it.

But as the contrasting fortunes of forests (a fair proxy for biodiversity) on the Korean peninsula and Hispaniola suggest, it is not so much growth as poverty that reduces biodiversity.

This included a study of where MPs went to school, which seems like a fair proxy for whether their backgrounds were the sort of blue collar worker families Robert Halfon and co are talking about, or not.

That's probably a fair proxy for their share of the digital market, at least in terms of new issues.

Among the selected measures evaluated, surgical complexity and case complexity are only fair proxies for CMI, while surgical proportion was a poor proxy for CMI.

CPT complexity and ICU/Ventilator use are fair proxies for case mix index (CMI-ICDC), but surgical proportion is a poor proxy.

Both CPT complexity and ICU/Ventilator use are fair proxies for CMI, suggesting the possibility to use the first two measures as intermediate measures of CMI, or more ideally as separate measures altogether, which could inform contracting as hospital process indicators.

Our experiences suggest that conditions can be embraced, particularly if they are considered fair, a proxy for good parenting, achievement and merit, and enable community members to take an active role in the programme and not sit back as passive recipients of aid.

After May's bruising elections and referendum (during which, to be fair, Conservative Party proxies launched personal attacks on Mr Clegg), the Lib Dems have now stoked public suspicions that Mr Cameron cannot be trusted on the NHS.There is a lot that still needs fixing in Britain, including the NHS.