Sentence examples for proxy for good from inspiring English sources

And hasn't your beau already proved that age is no proxy for good company?

"The I.I. ranking has been used as a proxy for good stock picking and that is a leap that is simply inaccurate," Mr. Spitzer said in an interview yesterday afternoon.

What seems to be the case is that customers who used to use the organic label as a kind of proxy for good, sustainable produce now look to the specific virtues that most concern them: seasonality, locality, fair trade or animal welfare.

What remains unknown is why.In this section The computer will see you now You never listen to a word I say The oldest animals Facing the facts The march of the kilobots Shaken and stirred ReprintsThe usual assumption is that bodily symmetry is a proxy for good health.

This compares with a 45% rise in the broader STOXX Europe 600 index, from which its components were selected.Green because good, not vice versaHowever, it could just as well be that green firms are more profitable not because they are green, but because they happen to be better run; and that their shares perform better because investors see greenness simply as a proxy for good management.

Good practices may not be a reliable proxy for good safety.

The instrumental setup is the same as last section, i.e. we use the external debt to GDP ratio and inflation as proxies for good policy.

M.G.: Jamaica reminds us, I think, that we have to stop using income as a proxy for all good things.

MCS notwithstanding, smoking habits among the elderly may be considered a proxy for relatively good self-rated physical health status and autonomy [ 35].

Mr Owen uses monthly data for productivity growth in manufacturing, a good proxy for the traded-goods sector.

In modern society, price is probably a good proxy for such collective wisdom.However, goods can be desirable for a reason other than survival value.