Sentence examples for served as a proxy from inspiring English sources

The Gotovina case has served as a proxy trial.

Noise levels served as a proxy for verbal communication; gestures, for the non-verbal sort.

More than most administration officials, he has served as a proxy for Republican attacks on what they see as President Obama's left-leaning agenda.

The book also recounts less-known incidents like the 1973 campaign, "Criticize Lin, Criticize Confucius" (in which Confucius served as a proxy for Zhou Enlai), and the 1975 attack on "empiricism" (the accusation leveled at Deng Xiaoping).

Admiral Mullen surprised Pakistani officials by publicly accusing the ISI of sheltering fighters from the Haqqani network, a Taliban ally that has long served as a proxy for Pakistan's military and intelligence establishment in Afghanistan.

We applied principal component analysis to construct a financial inclusion index that served as a proxy variable for the accessibility of financial services in the SAARC countries.

Good response to lithium stabilization (LiR) served as a proxy for identifying a subtype of manic-depressive illness, the classical form of BD.

Those monetary values served as a proxy measure of how much people cared about harm to themselves versus harm to others.

Besides being an important process for the protection of receiving waters, nitrification served as a proxy for the understanding of the behavior of a narrowly defined group of microorganisms growing on known substrates under environmental conditions.

There was no information on patients' education and income which are important determinants of health care consumption and hence this dummy variable served as a proxy for education and income.

And by the Wall Street Journal's account, the pro-Western March 14 coalition's victory in Lebanon in June served as a proxy victory for Saudi Arabia over Iran.