Sentence examples for standing proxy for from inspiring English sources
The concept of trust is standing proxy for a much wider – and much-needed conversation – about the ethics of public life: what is decency, what norms can we agree on, and how do we protect the vulnerable?
"In a way, Christianity is standing proxy for people's concerns because the main parties have lost the ability to do so," says Philip Blond, a former theology lecturer who first interested David Cameron in the idea of the "big society", and now runs the thinktank ResPublica.
In effect, one can take a temporal anaphor as standing proxy for a when-clause and a modal anaphor like 'that' in 'that would have hurt' as standing proxy for the antecedent of a conditional.
But if we treat anaphors as standing proxy for descriptions, the back door is blocked as well.
Whatever the ultimate disposition of these cases, it is fair to say that there are more issues here than whether pronouns are to be treated as standing proxy for definite descriptions or indefinite descriptions.
For Wittgenstein, the proxy statement "φ(m)" is not a mathematical proposition that "assert[s] its generality" (PR §168), it is an eliminable pseudo-proposition standing proxy for the proved inductive base and inductive step.
Alongside them he explores his family's pathology, its unnatural deaths and imprisonments standing as proxy for America's tragedy.
Then again, it's perhaps too congenial for comfort; he writes of geology with the ardor of an aficionado, not from his more customary perspective -- of ignorant but curious outsider to any given subject, standing as proxy for the ignorant but curious reader.
At the same time, it's hard not to suppose that in some of this the Roman Catholic church is standing as a proxy for Islam, which is certainly a great deal more unpopular.
These results and success in using AOD to document pollution episodes (Al-Saadi et al. 2005; Wang and Christopher 2003) have led to excitement about using AOD as a proxy, standing in for PM2.5, or in combination with ground measurements to better predict PM2.5.
For studies using stem diameter as a proxy for standing biomass, we used only the data of stems DBH > 10 cm whenever reported separately.
