Sentence examples for surrogate means from inspiring English sources

He used Hunter as a surrogate means by which to retaliate.

Being someone's surrogate means being willing to drop everything when a crisis strikes, and to continue monitoring when a client is hospitalized or needs long-term care.

The majority of the indicators developed involved risk assessment of farm management practices, as a proxy (surrogate) means to assess environmental state.

Osteonecrosis has been explored by surrogate means.

This constitutes only a surrogate means for evaluating the true appropriateness of antimicrobial treatment as it does not examine the specific in vitro susceptibilities or the timing of the antibiotic administration.

Thus, the presence or absence of the mec A gene alone is used as a surrogate means to distinguish S. aureus strains, rather than to suggest a competitive advantage in the absence of beta-lactam antibiotics.

At the same time, breakthroughs in mobile banking and the use of retail shops as banking surrogates means that many more of the world's poor will soon have access to financial services, providing a place for the poor to safely store and manage their money and opening the door for the delivery of SP programs that are more efficient and less susceptible to corruption.

Disability questions were completed for 122 patients, with 11% (n = 14) of these being obtained from surrogates (mean 147 days, SD 69).

Third, separately modelling the time to initiation/cessation of surrogate therapy means that - if the results are consistent - we can be more confident they are not substantially confounded.

Drugs and compounds that could potentially inhibit viral replication or virus protein synthesis can also be possible therapeutic agents, although at present the lack of an in vitro or an ideal surrogate system means progress in this area is slow [ 73].

Stem diameter was most strongly related to H95, which most likely acts as a surrogate for mean top height, reflecting the strong relationship between mean diameter and mean top height in the dataset (Table 3).