A proxy-struggle for the Honduran presidency continues to play out in Washington D.C.
The Taliban offer a counterforce in this proxy struggle.
The entrepreneur and former chief executive of Infoseek, a search engine that has withered away since being acquired by Disney, thinks Yahoo! co-founder Yang should meet with corporate raider Carl Icahn, who is threatening to wage an ugly proxy battle for control of the struggling Web portal.
The visit to Selma, a historically rich, economically struggling city, became a proxy battle for black support between Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama, whose candidacy represents a threat to Mrs. Clinton's traditional base.
However, the development of possible solutions is hindered when debates about corridors become proxies for struggles over authority in resource management, with the dominant discourse favouring the interests of settled cultivators.
The Assad regime, for its part, claims that it is engaged in a struggle for survival against Islamist militants conducting a proxy war on behalf of Sunni nations like Saudi Arabia.
The Paramount sale has become a potent wedge issue in the struggle for control, and Viacom's board is taking steps to prepare for what could turn into a bitter proxy battle over who serves on the board.
If he becomes Serbia's president, the Bosnian Serb Republic's creeping civil war may become a proxy for a struggle between him and Yugoslavia's president, Slobodan Milosevic.
The standoff between the Vatican and the nuns has become a proxy for the struggle between the church's right and left flanks.
They also note that there is likely to be considerable support from Sunni countries in the Middle East that see the civil war in Syria as a proxy for the struggle between Iran and themselves, and between themselves and Sunni Islamic radicalism.
