Most significantly, his acknowledging our historical grievances about the conduct of Western powers in our region — colonialism, exploitative proxy relationships, the 1953 coup in Iran — and tacitly admitting past culpability, are tremendously important for removing the burdens of the past and starting afresh in our relations.
Existing research demonstrates also that the nature of the patient-proxy relationship does not affect patient-proxy agreement for HRQOL before ICU admission [ 1, 2, 28, 30].
Proxies' relationship with the patient, age, gender and culture showed no significant association with rater agreement.
Our narrator Jim's actual father is already ill when the book opens, and dies shortly after the initial skirmish with the pirates: Jim has very little time to grieve for him (as he also has very little time for reflection of any kind in what follows) but once the trip to the island is proposed, he finds himself in a proxy-son relationship with the most complicated character in the book.
But there's arguably a sense in which a trip around the world can act as a proxy form of relationship therapy, catalysing the negative dynamics of a relationship into resolution.
Online clubs – like the shopping network Groupon – are attempting to personalise trade exchanges and perhaps develop a proxy for the relationship people might have with a neighbourhood store.
In Toronto, McKenna continued to push Clinton on the pipeline, which she said should not "be a proxy for the relationship" between the two countries.
Finally, the fourth model includes all previous controls as well as additional information from the followback survey: the decedent's individual and household income, the proxy respondent's relationship to the decedent, and the proxy respondent's age, gender, and education.
Women who reported they would "face problems at home" if they did not first ask permission to join the study—a proxy measure of relationship control and harmony were less likely to be consistent users (AOR 0.70, 95% CI: 0.51 0.96).
However, the number of WGDs alone was below the inclusion cut off for the PCA to derive a complexity proxy, and the relationship in the correlation analysis was found to be relatively weak (as compared with TAPs).
