They accused her of being a proxy for her popular billionaire brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 military coup and now lives in self-imposed exile to avoid a jail sentence on a corruption conviction.
Moreover, just as Mrs. Clinton is using her health care plan as a proxy for her maturation as a leader, Republicans are using it to challenge her character and honesty.
A client told me that her father was the health care proxy for her mother.
The piece mocks Gwen's role as "the viewer proxy" describing her as "plumply pop-eyed" and her boyfriend Rhys as 'Barry Backstory'.
She gave her tale a title, "Eternal Dream," and invented, as a proxy for her adolescent self, a narrator named Saki, who is in her second year of high school and lives in a hazily described provincial town.
Analysts say this perception is likely to dog her tenure as prime minister: Is she Mr. Thaksin's proxy or her own woman?
She lived in interesting times with her ears, eyes and mind open but she never, as her mother had hoped, became an aristocrat except by proxy through her daughter Raine, who achieved it thrice by marriage.
Although she ruled the country directly for only 80 days, her proxy reign continued through her husband until her murder.
It is commonplace for an academician's publication-citation record, the list of her publications as well as citation counts, to be used as a proxy for her professional output.
So how did Ms. Yingluck, initially considered a mere proxy for her exiled brother, do it?
