Sentence examples for proxy war for from inspiring English sources

The election has become a sort of proxy war for the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The two have been fighting a proxy war for almost a year now.

A bit of Rice battle as proxy war for taking on the president himself.

The Vice-President believed that foreign powers were turning the conflict into "more of a proxy war for Sunni and Shia".

Iran and Saudi Arabia financed rival Shiite and Sunni militant groups in the 1990s, as part of a proxy war for influence.

Even more important, the Administration has not addressed the danger that a proxy war for influence over prime Middle East property could soon become much riskier.

In 1945, when Patton was forced to pull out, we failed to fortify Eastern Europe's main capitals against future Soviet tyranny, resulting in the U.S.S.R. taking over Eastern Europe and engaging the West in proxy wars for decades.

In the quest for conflict minerals, and in the midst of proxy wars for those minerals, the international community has failed miserably to stop the holocaust of over five million in DRC.

I encountered a country braced not for some frozen conflict, nor for proxy war, but for the real thing: all-out war against the west.

Still, both the United States and Russia have shown an inclination to dial back the temperature of a proxy war that, for the first time since Afghanistan in the 1980s, has seen fighters backed by the C.I.A. in a direct confrontation with the Russian military.

Where we used to see challenge as an opportunity, this one, inexplicably has become a proxy-war for economic insecurity and class division.