The bigger question posed by the proxy war in Perak is what happens if the levers of federal power should one day slip from UMNO's hands, as has seemed inevitable since last year's election.

构成霹雳州代理权争斗的最大的问题是，如果某一天州权力的操作杆从巫统的手中滑脱将会发生什么？自从去年的大选后，这看起来是不可避免的。

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The protagonists fought their wars by proxy: about a third of conflicts from 1950 to 1990 were connected to cold-war rivalry.

冷战的主角们通过代理人来打仗：从1950年到1990年，约1/3的冲突都和冷战双方的对抗有关。

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But the statement is a sign of growing concern in the US that the conflict in Syria is morphing into a complex regional war by proxy.

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Left and right rarely meet in combat, preferring to fight their war by proxy: only 5% of their victims, it is reckoned, actually die with a gun in their hands.

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