Sentence examples for into a proxy for from inspiring English sources

A very public discussion turned into a proxy for how the nation wanted to get back on its feet.

That became truer still when Farage became the face of anti-EU sentiment, making it into a proxy for hostility to immigration.

Obama and his Democratic allies will turn the war into a proxy for their efforts to portray a McCain victory as a third Bush term.

Faced with implementing an unpopular decision of the European court of human rights, David Cameron turned the issue into a proxy for sovereignty and urged a rejection of the judgment.

But this year, Kate Zernike reports, it's attracting more attention as supporters of the Tea Party and their opponents turn the event into a proxy for their broader struggles over the scope of government.

"It turns your phone into a proxy for fraudulent behaviour," he said.

We also used the index of economic resources (SEIFA, a neighbourhood level summary measure for each census Collection District (approximately 200 dwellings) from the Australian Bureau of Statistics 1996 Census of Population and Housing [36]) grouped into sextiles, as a proxy for mother's socioeconomic status at the time of the child's birth.

These results provide empirical evidence of the limitations inherent in the classification of coal tonnage into distance classes as a proxy for actual calculation of uncertainty.

Future research should concern investigations into whether remoteness is a proxy for particular social and environmental factors in the Australian context.

This component, divided into tertiles, was used as a proxy for low, medium and high socioeconomic status categories [ 20].

We used the primary ICD-10 diagnosis for the current hospitalization to classify patients into nine disease categories as a proxy for reason for ICU admission, which is not recorded in the DNRP.