Environmentalists are openly using the project as a proxy for their general opposition to oil sands development.
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Foreigners have stayed away, says Sohn, because they view it as a proxy for the depresssed Korean economy.
The problem, of course, is that the public is still using institutional prestige as a proxy for educational quality.
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Using length as a proxy for quality is very much a value judgment.
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As a proxy for European stock markets, the VanGuard Europe ETF is down 16% from its top last November.
For IPOs, their pre-money valuation is used as a proxy for exit value.
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The third component uses disagreement among economic forecasters as a proxy for uncertainty.
Likewise, to see his case as a proxy for whether abortion in general is evil is likely to mischaracterize.
But as a proxy for this analysis just look at the economics.
The MHC is also thought to act as a proxy for general outbreeding, with all the hybrid vigour that can bring.
And finally, I will mention forest fires, since they are sometimes used by the media as a proxy for droughts and heat.
In the mobile research I just mentioned, we did a little experiment where we used network quality as a proxy for performance.
But tax revenues tend to nosedive during slumps, so using them as a proxy for the size of government can avoid that pitfall.
It was not clear whether Reid insisted on his own behalf, as a proxy for other Democrats, or on behalf of the White House.
Family histories can be used as a proxy for detailed genetic work that may someday be used to help predict heart-disease risk, researchers say.
Its best-known acquisition was JLG, a maker of lift equipment that Wall Street had come to regard as a proxy for the housing boom.
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Google Chief Economist Hal Varian has shown that search can act as a proxy for purchasing intent in markets like autos and real estate.
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Nevermind that white applicants had almost double the number of citations for previous work, an indicator many reviewers use as a proxy for research quality.
The research, published in 2012 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, used TV viewing and overall sitting time as a proxy for sedentary behavior.
The study tries to sort out the causality by using the Federal Reserve's survey of loan officers as a proxy for the supply of credit.
But that particular debate also served as a proxy for an underlying argument, which was over the broader question of how threatened the United States really was.
Gill says San Francisco, in turn, can be viewed as a proxy for the whole country since the test was more about network capabilities than network coverage.
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In Northern Ireland, we do have a series of figures called called the indexes of production, services and construction which are sometimes used as a proxy for GDP.
In other words, the problem is not the emphasis on shareholder value, but the use of short-term increases in a firm's share price as a proxy for it.
It competes with companies like Mattel and Hasbro, and revenue at big-box retailers like Wal-Mart and Target can serve as a proxy for its health.
In brief, the narcissistic parent treats their child as a proxy for themselves that they both indulge and manipulate in order to mold them in their own image.
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Investors have looked at Starbucks as a proxy for the health of the Chinese consumers, as has been the case with other consumer-oriented companies like Nike and Yum!
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And its unemployment and employment statistics have not fared too badly by UK standards, whereas the CEBR analysis chooses to use only GDP as a proxy for living standards.
Since both are affected by gravity they are attracted to each other, so the distribution of normal, visible matter acts as a proxy for the distribution of dark matter.
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