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  • Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

  • There's no question almost press secretaries talk about the sense of serving two masters. On the one hand you want to protect the president's interests, and you represent his interests to the press. And the press is a proxy for the American people.

    Hands   Two   People  
    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • Asking Saudi Arabia and Iran to work together, when they can't stand each other and are engaged in a proxy battle right at this moment.

    Iran   Battle   Together  
    Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.
  • contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century.

    Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books
  • I came upon Diana Krall's jazz arrangement of "A Case of You" several years back. I've always wanted to pay homage to both her version and Joni's, and by proxy, my mom. She's the one that introduced me to that music.

    Mom   Years   Pay  
    Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.
  • A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

    Nice   Men   Vices  
    Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.15, Modern Library
  • I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like a stand-in for myself, a proxy, as though my real self resided elsewhere, waiting to unite someday with this dimmer, more hollow self. I felt marooned. An exile in my own home

    Real   Home   Self  
    Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.292, A&C Black
  • (Sookie's Thoughts on Debbie Pelt) she had been cruel to Alcide, insulted me grievously, burned a hole in my favorite wrap and—oh—tried to kill me by proxy. Also, she had stupid hair.

    Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.854, Penguin
  • Iran has proxies in Yemen, Syria, Iraq. You can push back against Iran without pulling out of the deal.

    Iran   Iraq   Yemen  
    "Gen. James 'Mad Dog' Mattis Picked By Trump To Be Defense Secretary". Interview with Steve Inskeep, gpbnews.org. December 2, 2016.
  • The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy.

  • A past President, bullied and sandbagged by a monkey posing as a newscaster, finally lashed back....The nation's marketplace of ideas is being poisoned by a propaganda company so blatant that Tokyo Rose would've quit....As with all the other nefariousness and slime of this, our worst presidency since James Buchanan, he [President Bush] is having it done for him, by proxy. Thus, the sandbag effort by Fox News Friday afternoon.

    Friday   Past   Ideas  
  • Even as we implement the nuclear deal and welcome our Americans home, we recognize that there remain about differences between the United States and Iran. We remain steadfast in opposing Iran's destabilizing behavior elsewhere, including its against Israel and our Gulf partners and its support for violent proxies in places like Syria and Yemen.

    Home   Israel   Iran  
    "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.
  • The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper.

    Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.502, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Health care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy, particularly coming off a huge economic crisis.

    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • There are proxies, proxy servers on the internet, and this is very typical for hackers to use. They create what are called proxy chains where they gain access to a number of different systems around the world, sometimes by hacking these, and they use them as sort of relay boxes.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Do you young people want a sure way to eliminate the influence of the adversary in your life? Immerse yourself in searching for your ancestors, prepare their names for the sacred vicarious ordinances available in the temple, and then go to the temple to stand as proxy for them to receive the ordinances of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost. As you grow older, you will be able to participate in receiving the other ordinances as well. I can think of no greater protection from the influence of the adversary in your life

    Thinking   Names   People  
  • Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

    May   Urban   Farming  
    Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Before I read the script [The Following], I saw the schedule, and imagine how confusing that was. I thought it was intriguing. I'm an actress. Even if it's, by proxy, all about me, I'm all for it. It was all about me, but I didn't have to show up, so it was great.

    Source: collider.com
  • I think it is to the advantage of my state to have the opportunity to come to meetings occasionally and to vote in person, rather than just by proxy.

    Source: www.rollcall.com
  • Reading is seeing by proxy.

    Reading   Library   Proxy  
    Herbert Spencer (1874). “The Study of Sociology”, p.364, London, D. Appleton
  • Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

  • Is the warming unprecedented? Probably not. There is abundant historical and proxy evidence for both hotter and cooler periods in human history. Is it our fault? Again, maybe. The correlation of increasing warmth with increasing carbon dioxide concentrations is particularly weak; that with solar energy and with ocean movements is much stronger.

  • I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. We use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.

    FaceBook post by Simon Pegg from Aug 11, 2014
  • When America does not lead, the world is a dangerous and a tragic place. This is a bad deal. [Barack] Obama broke every rule of negotiation.Yes, our allies are not perfect, but Iran is at the heart of most of the evil that is going on in the Middle East through their proxy.

    Heart   Iran   America  
    Annotated transcript: The Aug. 6 GOP debate, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.
  • I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy.

    "Chocolat and chips". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2001.
  • I don't mind payin' for the police and for streets and sanitation, or road work, bridges, trains, food subsidies and welfare. But I don't wanna pay for bombs to fight proxy wars in the middle of nowhere against enemies in the night.

    War   Fighting   Night  
    "Lupe Fiasco: 'I have the right to speak out'". Interview with Angus Batey, www.theguardian.com. Mach 3, 2011.
  • Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.

    Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
  • The data set of proxies of past climate used in Mann...for the estimation of temperature from 1400 to 1980 contains collation errors, unjustifiable truncation or extrapolation of source data, obsolete data, geographical location errors, incorrect calculation of principal components and other quality control defects.

    Past   Errors   Data  
  • Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are readers to see them, audiences to hear them. It is immortality by proxy. It is not really a bad deal, all things considered.

  • if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.

    Family   Justice   Proxy  
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