"surrogate questions" is a valid phrase and can be used in written English.
It refers to questions that are asked in place of another question or used as a replacement for a different question. Example: During the presidential debate, the moderator asked several surrogate questions instead of the controversial topics that the candidates were avoiding.
The Obama campaign quickly jumped on both the comments, organizing a call with reporters in which surrogates questioned McCain's judgment.
A steady drumbeat of campaign surrogates have questioned the timing of Trump's accusers, suggesting they are seeking attention.
Last week many reporters prided themselves on forcefully asking President Obama's surrogates a question handed to them by the Romney campaign: "Are the American people better off today than they were four years ago?" That made for a great clown show, since the economy was in a state of collapse when President Obama took office four years ago.
This potential surrogacy scandal comes after the case of an Australian couple accused of abandoning their son, Gammy, who has Down's syndrome, with his Thai surrogate mother, raising questions about Thailand's open surrogacy laws and about children being vulnerable to human trafficking.
Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D. "Mommies, Daddies, Donors, Surrogates: Answering Tough Questions and Building Strong Families".
Shedding his growing role as a leading backstage adviser and confidant, Mr. Racicot (pronounced RAHS-coe) emerged in Austin, Tex., as one of Mr. Bush's most prominent surrogates to answer questions about state law in Florida, criticize recounts and chide Vice President Al Gore's campaign for insisting that they were necessary.
Marked increases in late lumen loss (>fourfold difference) are not necessarily associated with substantial differences in major cardiac events, and thus the validity of these surrogate endpoints is questioned [ 18, 20].
In the absence of data on the level of clearance of unconjugated BPA from human serum, it is an attractive option to use primates as surrogates to resolve questions about the relevance for humans of data from rodent studies.
Professor David Cameron [ 3] addressed the important questions of surrogate end-points in clinical trials.
Socio-economic status was evaluated using specific questions addressing surrogate markers such as the occupation of the primary caregiver, numbers of rooms at home, car, television, cell phone and internet connection.
