The hearing, before the Government Affairs Committee, focused for some time on problems in Missouri, but they seemed a proxy for the presidential election.
Talk of the Town wrote, with pride, about the remodeling and expansion of The Famous Ray's Pizza, at Eleventh and Sixth: it seemed a proxy for the vitality of the city itself.
Cheney's public battle with Obama, though, seemed like a proxy for his private battle with Bush.
Taken in isolation, a small frontal (e.g., small minimum frontal breadth) may seem a good proxy for determining cranial size.
Average biomass production, on the other hand, seems a good proxy for human/livestock presence.
So, the tariff of Euro 69.50 we used seems a good proxy for the real cost price.
Anyway, as a linguist, what really intrigues me about this kind of exchange is that "seems" is largely a proxy for "sounds".
Reporting the fraction of time above a threshold instead of the percentage of measurements above a threshold, without time consideration, seems more useful as a proxy for reducing time in a hyperglycaemic state.
This may pose a difficulty for the identification of life satisfaction with happiness: for people frequently seem to use happiness as a proxy for well-being, a reasonably concrete and value-free stand-in that facilitates quick-and-dirty assessments of welfare.
But from time to time — reportingPresident John F. Kennedy's assassination, reportingfrom Vietnam, reporting that first step on the moon — hemade it clear that the news of the day hadchanged not only us but him.In those moments he seemed his mostauthoritative.How one becomes a proxy for a nation,as Cronkite did, is a matter of luck and timingand experience.
Nonetheless, much as the minaret seems somehow to have stood as a proxy for far wider concerns, the vote itself now stands as a dangerous symbol of the curtailment of the freedom to practice religion and does so in a way that may have ramifications across Europe and beyond, where this freedom needs to be enhanced and safeguarded not diminished.
