The retail brand, and what it stands for, has become a surrogate for added-value.
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Even the royal pet corgi is snarling at her as if a surrogate for its mistress's irritation.
Thus, race or ethnic origin can sometimes serve as a useful surrogate for more precisely defined genetic differences.
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Since then, he has been an assiduous surrogate for the Kerry campaign, campaigning openly for the vice-presidential slot.
Since most everyone accepted the paintings based on their attribution, they traded freely, a colorful surrogate for money.
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He has formed his own federal political action committee, CoryPac, and has campaigned as a surrogate for President Barack Obama.
Norm Coleman, a top Republican surrogate for the Romney campaign, had his doubts about any long-lasting damage to the GOP's likely nominee.
He said these would not have the desired effect of reducing the size of the Lords and were "no surrogate for democracy".
The larger-than-life character is a walking, talking embodiment of 1980s avarice and corporate malfeasance, a surrogate for real-life villains like corporate raider Ivan Boesky.
But whether related to fiscal or technological innovation, brands that understand that real emotional connections can serve as a surrogate for added-value will always top the list.
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The good news is that the brand can serve as a surrogate for the added-value consumers are looking for, and become a driving factor in the value equation.
He refused to debate with Mrs Arroyo, or to describe his policies in any detail, reinforcing the impression that he was simply a surrogate for Mr Estrada and the circle of Ferdinand Marcos, a former dictator, a witness at Mr Poe's wedding.
If eggs can be made from the stem cells of men, with the advent of an artificial womb (already in use for sharks, in development with mammals and projected to be in use for humans within 100 years), it will also give them an organ they currently have to pay surrogate mothers for the use of.
When we start going to the movies, stars are leading surrogate lives for us.
What if anything is morally wrong with, say, organ farming or surrogate pregnancy for money?
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This fall an electronic trading system run by 14 major banks will introduce a surrogate contract for eurodollars, by far the Merc's biggest pit.
Her story has a happy ending as her parents made it out and settled in Stoke-on-Trent, where they acted as surrogate parents for many Czech children.
Who would you choose to make those decisions and what would you tell your surrogate to do for you?
They are wearing all-black outfits, grunting affectionately, and generally imitating mother gorillas to help the month-old baby adjust to a new home and get ready for a surrogate mother.
The show is about a gay couple who hire a surrogate to have a baby for them.
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"All these studies tell us is it is much more complicated than just trying to fix that number because that is a surrogate marker, or a predictor for the disease, not the disease itself, " says Robert Centor, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
Now, using IVF and a surrogate carrier, a gay man could contract for the creation of a child both legally and socially his.
As a surrogate in the UK, it is illegal for Miss Broomhall to receive payment, although some couples have offered her large sums of money to carry their child.
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Domestic workers often spend more time with their employers than they do with their own families, and the people for whom Gomez worked became like a surrogate family, he said.
But children were nobody else's business for those willing to adopt, or procreate with the methods available to anyone able to pay for donated eggs, sperm or a surrogate mother.
To compensate for this weakness, Indian industry developed a surrogate education system.
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We are currently exploring ways for Henry to use a PR2 robot as his surrogate.
The team has already collected feathers from a range of surrogate species around Lake Chad in Nigeria, and is looking for further sites where warblers may be wintering.
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