Sentence examples for proxy for everything from inspiring English sources
Rockefeller's empire became, says Mr Smith, "a proxy for everything that Americans feared and what they feared was a concentration of power".Here Americans diverged sharply from Europeans, who have been much more comfortable with concentrations of power manifested in big government and nationalised industries.
"Brand becomes a proxy for everything else because there is a separation between retailer, consumer and product," explains Michael Smith, a Carnegie Mellon professor who has studied online shopping habits.
So wealth serves as a proxy for everything else.
Max Brooks, the son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, who wrote the book the movie is based on, told The Times that his zombies were proxies for everything scary that has happened since 2001: 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu and SARS.
The editor, either personally or by proxy, is responsible for everything in the paper.
The real money was in the proxy votes of institutional shareholders: a screen showed they voted 98% and 99% for everything, not a word about unseemly remuneration.
Mitanins fight for everything, help in everything.
I do that for everything.
Having said that, experience counts for everything.
