If obesity is nothing more than a proxy for metabolic illness, what good does it do us to punish those with the proxy?

Here, used as a proxy, temperature variability.

The next thing it hit, a year later, was critical mass. In this case, 20 percent is often a good proxy for critical mass in a household.

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A court challenge resulted in the reinstatement of the proxy method.

Particularly important is the ability to report actual expenditures on a monthly basis a proxy for programme implementation rate.

It is impossible to tell who is making good bets and who is gambling recklessly. Consequently, it is helpful to have a proxy activity that enables outsiders to see that the process of discernment and valuation really occurs.

Unfortunately, empirical data, good, hard stats, don't exist, and therefore to prove my point, I first of all had to find some proxy way of uncovering how much food was being wasted.

Now you may think it's money, but that's actually sort of a proxy to what I can do to preserve myself.

Increases in the use of standardized agreements will be monitored as a proxy indicator for transaction costs and flexibility of contributions.

The seventh and eighth parameters specify the logon identity and password to use on the proxy.

And let me just do one simple conceptual thing if I plot science as a proxy for control of the production process and scale.

This is when the two superpowers were fighting a war by proxy, along the periphery of the sphere of influence, fully funding arms organizations.

The Pay Equity Act originally provided for a proxy comparison method for public sector jobs, which was subsequently struck from the Act in 1996.

Meanwhile, Yemen continues to serve as a battleground in a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Iran has armed and trained the Houthis, and, though the rebels' brand of Shi'ism shares little with that practiced in Tehran, they have praised the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and held up Iran's Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, as a model to be emulated.

Moreover, men, owing to their dominant situation, often influence women by making them sign over their proxy votes.

Part of the procedure for model development is that when a specific data set (which may include one or more candidate proxy variables) and associated mathematical algorithms are proposed for inclusion as a proxy for abundance and or grade, it will be calibrated with one subset of the available nodule grade and abundance data and then tested with another subset.

While Canada has no official measure of poverty, the Government of Canada typically uses Statistic Canada's after tax low income cut offs (LICOs) as a proxy.

That would mean bombing Damascus, which could harden Syrian support for Assad. And perhaps it would do no good it might save a few lives, they argue, but, with so many different countries fighting a proxy war via so many different groups of opposition fighters, it would not change the overall dynamic of the conflict.

Get a health care proxy in place so that you designate a trusted individual to oversee your medical care and ensure that professionals comply with your wishes in case you're unable to communicate.

Thaksin already is believed by many to be providing advice to the government of Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej. Indeed, Samak s People Power Party (PPP) is widely considered a proxy for Thaksin.

So if you can be obese and not have insulin resistance, and you can be lean and have it, this suggests that obesity may just be a proxy for what's going on.

Indeed, Samak s People Power Party (PPP) is widely considered a proxy for Thaksin. It was, after all, formed from the remains of Thaksin s Thai Rak Thai party, which was disbanded after the coup.

I was fascinated by the Cold War, by the INF negotiations over intermediate range nuclear missiles, the proxy war between the Soviet Union and the U.S.

In areas where resources are scarce, data on education and employment status of persons with disabilities can serve as proxy data for the equalization of opportunities.

15.5 States and other responsible authorities or institutions should provide, at the request of a claimant or his or her proxy, copies of any documentary evidence in their possession required to make and or support a restitution claim.

Precisely because America remains indispensable to international security, one wishes that its leaders would act in a more discerning way. In international politics, as in education, there is no such thing as care by proxy.

Rules and incentives don't tell you how to be a good friend, how to be a good parent, how to be a good spouse, or how to be a good doctor or a good lawyer or a good teacher.

A good education doesn't imply a good upbringing.

In order to facilitate the greatest access to those affected, it should be possible to submit restitution claims by post or by proxy, as well as in person.

You want to find someone with a good education, a good salary, good looks, and a good personality. Don't you think that that's aiming a bit too high?

The demise of compromise and collegiality in domestic politics has raised new challenges in America s interaction with others as well. Foreign policy debate in the US has become a proxy for who is tougher, which does not necessarily mean wiser.

As a proxy indicator for programme monitoring, the average number of days spent on official in country travel by UNICEF Professional staff in country offices sustained its increase from 11 days in 2002 to 23 days in 2003 and 2004.

But that's a really good idea that's a good job for technology.

To put that in perspective and I'm using steel as a proxy here for metals, because it's the most common metal if your stuff makes it to a recycler, probably over 90 percent of the metals are going to be recovered and reused for another purpose.

There is only one option, I'll repeat to you, only one option left to climatologists and scientists, and that is to do the unthinkable, and to use livestock, bunched and moving, as a proxy for former herds and predators, and mimic nature.

Which is a little good, but not very much good.

Being a good conversationalist does not just mean being a good speaker of English.

SANA'A Yemen is no stranger to crisis. Exposed to a regional proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, plagued by an entrenched Al Qaeda affiliate, and divided by tribal disputes and a secession movement, the country has become a poster child for everything that can go wrong in the Arab world.

PRINCETON What began in Syria as a revolt against an oppressive regime has evolved into a sectarian civil war and, more recently, into a proxy conflict. In the process, the struggle has become increasingly convoluted, with conflicting agendas among allies, together with deep seated communal tensions, rendering the situation nearly intractable.

A good question.

If cheese is good, but the cake is a lie, what is a cheesecake? A good lie.

The ones where we can do a lot of good rather than a little good.