Sentences with phrase «as a proxy»

Others may have a satisfactory performance and you may decide to hold them for now as a proxy for one of the asset classes you want to be invested in.

Historical records of glacier length can be used as a proxy for temperature.

Age and grade level served as proxies for maturity.

As regards painting as a proxy of climate, I definitely think there is something in it.

The signatures act as a proxy for DNA sequences.

Those monetary values served as a proxy measure of how much people cared about harm to themselves versus harm to others.

The number of books in the home is used as a proxy in this study for student - level socioeconomic status.

The CSA sought and received feedback from issuers, institutional investors, the legal and academic community as well as the proxy advisory firms themselves.

However, using other official data as a proxy, including coal and electricity consumption, other analysts have tried to calculate a figure on its behalf.

Moreover, different forecasts may choose different indices as a proxy for the same asset class, thus influencing the return of the asset class.

Additionally, tree rings, ocean and rock sediment also serve as proxy records of climate conditions of the past.

Temperature data comes in two forms; direct instrumental measurement or a secondary indicator known as a proxy temperature.

Think of interest rates as a proxy for the discount rate you use to value investments.

Let's put this into a contemporary context — and let's use traditional mutual funds as a rough proxy for attempted market beating products and ETFs as a proxy for market level performance.

Using actual inflation over the past five years as a proxy for longer - term inflation expectations, Australian real rates are relatively high in international terms.

The risk - free rate is generally taken as the return on cash, where a three - month bond is taken as a proxy.

They're doing it because they're using lawyer hours as a proxy for client outcomes.

I use free cash flows as a proxy for owner's earnings.

Those who held gold stocks as a proxy for gold therefore no longer have to do so.

The resume can be considered as your proxy in the corporate world.

You can imagine scenarios in which employers, insurers and prospective in - laws start to employ the scores as proxies for your character.

Gold continues to act as less of a haven hedge and more as a proxy for USD sentiment.

In other words, can we rely on tree - ring growth as a proxy for temperature?

To find out how the virus might spread among people, an international group of researchers infected ferrets, which often stand as proxies for people in influenza studies.

We have shown the general moves up and down in the real yield of T - Bills as a proxy for the state of monetary policy.

Solar cycle length as a proxy for solar activity tells us the sun has had very little contribution to global warming since 1975.

Of course, more guys now use social media sites as a proxy for date website.

Hiring managers use experience as a proxy for minimum qualifications, but rarely hire a candidate who just meets the minimum (unless there's a talent shortage).

The offender can see the company as a proxy and serve as an object of higher loyalty.

On the left, it serves as a proxy fight over standardized testing being tied to teacher evaluations.

First, we rely on the percentage of the population who work in the arts, sports and recreation sector as a proxy for how focused a community is on cultural activities.

Normally we use people's behavior as a proxy for their internal state.

Fund managers will choose stocks in the proxy bucket in the hopes of generating the same return as the proxy overall.

He was therefore quite rightly attacked as a proxy for his clients because he presented himself as such.

Many companies view language skills as a proxy for soft skills like communication, empathy and ability to get along with people.

Using physical breed standards as a proxy for determining whether a dog is dangerous is incredibly flawed.

If some board members aren't persuaded on a decision that you want made use board members who are on your side as proxies.