In fact this has become a proxy for two other arguments.
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.
Language has become a proxy for other battles, not only over Europe versus Russia, but over history.
The U.S. Presidential race, she said, "has become a proxy for the internal debate between ideological purity and pragmatism".
The battle over the term has become a proxy for the larger issues that divide Washington and the Arab public.
The debate over the New Start treaty, as it is known, has become a proxy fight over the legacy of the nation's 40th president.
He thinks that to some extent the agitation for him to quit has become a proxy for debating the party's future direction.
The debate over whether to repopulate the area, if trial cleanups prove effective, has become a proxy for a larger battle over the future of Japan.
Copper, meanwhile, has become a proxy investment on industrializing China and India, leading the price to roughly triple over the same span.
