Sentence examples for proxy to engage from inspiring English sources
It allows us, by proxy, to engage in risk.
It was important to engage proxies in Afghanistan and to build various capabilities so that if an opportunity presented itself, the C.I.A. could act on it.
Companies themselves are also much less willing to engage in proxy contests.
These funds could easily hire the necessary staff to engage with companies on crucial proxy issues.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr. Goldberg points out, has said that were Iran to also possess nuclear weapons, then Hamas and Hezbollah (Iranian "proxies") would possess a "nuclear umbrella" under which to engage in terror activities against Israel.
Large shareholders have an incentive to monitor the performance of incumbent mangers and to engage with them, or even mount a proxy challenge, in the event of underperformance.
That identity allowed Superman to walk among us, but mostly it allowed him and, by proxy, generations of geeks both creating and consuming the character, to engage ritualistically in a sadomasochistic relationship with Lois Lane.
Iran does not have the means to engage in nuclear deterrence — directly or through proxies — against its adversaries.
This month, Mr. Loeb wrote to the board that he was pursuing a proxy fight because of the board's "stonewalling, apparent insouciance and decision not to engage with us in a serious matter".
Self-reported data can serve as a reasonable proxy for measuring the tendency to adopt particular driving patterns, including the tendency to engage in violations.
Indeed, one consequence of the missile crisis was to usher in a period in which the superpowers made sure to engage one another well away from their own populations and by proxy if possible: from Vietnam to Afghanistan to Central America.
