Sentence examples for operation as a proxy from inspiring English sources

Fig. 14 Plots showing the vertical variation of (a) fracture aperture and (b) the calculated fracture porosity (secondary porosity index), and observed mud loss during the drilling operation, as a proxy for the structural permeability.

Operative time was used as a proxy for operative efficiency.

Returns of Pershing Square's closed-end fund, seen as a proxy for Ackman's overall hedge fund operation, were off 15.9% for the year through Oct. 27.

"The looming danger is seeing Yemen merely as a proxy war between the Gulf Co-operation Council states and Iran," says Jon Altman, Middle East programme director at the Centre for Strategic & International Studies in Washington.

As the emergency operations were mainly related to trauma we used this variable as a proxy for trauma.

In an echo of the United States military operation in Kosovo, American war planners are also hoping to use rebel fighters -- in this case, the Northern Alliance -- as a proxy force.

The Gotovina case has served as a proxy trial.

The study used arrest records as a proxy for convictions.

An airline levy is mooted as a proxy for privilege.

It's using race as a proxy for crime".

Here, though, he was cast as a proxy for the liberalised baby boomer, a proxy for the audience.