Sentence examples for may become a proxy for from inspiring English sources

If he becomes Serbia's president, the Bosnian Serb Republic's creeping civil war may become a proxy for a struggle between him and Yugoslavia's president, Slobodan Milosevic.

In this way, a model of the piece of music may become a proxy for, or a pointer to, those thoughts, memories, and emotions that are evoked as one follows along with the music in one's mind.

Further, as cancer progresses and patients' functioning deteriorates, caregivers are likely to take on greater responsibilities with respect to pain management and may become a proxy for patients in interactions with health care professionals.

Mr Clegg said: "Next May the Euro elections are bound to become a proxy for the bigger questions of 'in versus out' - a debate that will play out in the 2015 general election, too".

The therapist has become a proxy for someone else and may hear judgments projected on to her or him that only make sense if the therapist is understood as a stand-in, an "as if" relationship.

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.

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.

As a result, arguments about the science of climate change become a proxy for what is really a political argument.

In many ways they [asylum seekers] have become a proxy for other issues like infrastructure and traffic congestion".