An obvious and commonly used proxy for organismal complexity is the number of cell types (Bell and Mooers 1997; Carroll 2001; Hedges et al. 2004; McCarthy and Enquist 2005; Vogel and Chothia 2006; Xia et al. 2008).
The reason for using fitness proxies is obvious: estimating fitness at multiple temperatures is extremely difficult with most ectotherms.
In his final speech as chairman, Mr. Cleghorn suggested that he, Mr. Green and the other retiring directors left early because the early proxy returns made obvious that their removal was inevitable.
In the Soviet era, when high culture was regarded as a serious enough affair to influence geopolitical relations, symphonic music was still an obvious means of battle by proxy.
It is obvious that those acting as proxies for the dead in hundreds of thousands of posthumous baptisms, have no way of determining whether or not the dead people being baptized were openly and gaily married or were children of gay parents who refused to disavow their parents' life styles.
These large payments would not be obvious to the casual reader of proxy statements.
Wellbeing is represented by the singular measure of life satisfaction as it provides a useful proxy and an immediately obvious benchmark for those responsible for thinking about young people's health programmes.
Some responses are given by proxy but there is no obvious reason to believe this upwardly biases estimates.
"Over the past few years, it has become obvious that the military and its political proxy (the ruling party) were not actually interested in a democratic transition that required them to relinquish their power".
