Sentence examples for mere proxy from inspiring English sources

So how did Ms. Yingluck, initially considered a mere proxy for her exiled brother, do it?

Ms Rousseff, who has never before held elected office, will now have to show whether she is a mere proxy for Lula or a leader in her own right.Since the vote, the president-elect has focused on reassuring the country that she will provide continuity.

Yingluck Shinawatra's challenges now lie in trying to reassure those who doubt her abilities and question whether she is more than a mere proxy for Mr Thaksin's political ambitions.

Despite her claims to be estranged from her husband, the community will view her as a mere proxy for Donald Sterling, Soboroff said.

Bernard Haykel, a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and a longtime observer of Yemen, says labeling of the Houthis as a mere proxy in Iran's regional tussle with the Saudis is misleading.

For that matter, this method is a mere proxy for adherence.

Economic measures, whether G.D.P. or income inequality, are mere proxies for well-being.

Even if constitutional, such considerations would surely have invited legal challenges from affirmative action opponents condemning them as mere proxies for race.

As Silicon Valley sophisticates underscore, however, the phone and tablet makers are mere proxies for another foe — Android, the operating system Google (GOOG) gives away to manufacturers.

But the people doing the work are more than mere proxies in a culture war; they're human, and that alone entitles them to equality before the law.

A majority of these SNPs, however, are not causal being mere proxies of genuinely functional alleles in the vicinity.