(n.) One who is employed to manage to affairs of another.
(n.) A person appointed to collect alms for those who could not go out to beg for themselves, as lepers, the bedridden, etc.; hence a beggar.
(n.) An officer employed in admiralty and ecclesiastical causes. He answers to an attorney at common law, or to a solicitor in equity.
(n.) A representative of the clergy in convocation.
(n.) An officer in a university or college whose duty it is to enforce obedience to the laws of the institution.
(v. t.) To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent.
Example Sentences:
(1) An alternative is to let currently enrolled students proctor and tutor each other.
(2) Harvey Proctor said the Metropolitan police’s Operation Midland inquiry team , set up to examine claims that boys were systematically abused by an establishment paedophile ring, should be wound up and its head be put in charge of parking offences.
(3) He said in a statement: “’It is not for me to judge the innocence or guilt of Harvey Proctor.
(4) Confirmation of Proctor's 1958 estimate of high incidence of hysterical phenomena among a rural child psychiatric population is provided by recent observations on a small, random sample of children referred for psychological assessment in Australia.
(5) Shara Proctor, who might have had hopes of gold while Okagbare busied herself with the 200m, managed only two steps of a run-up before clutching at her left thigh and leaving the arena with her hoodie pulled sorrowfully around her face.
(6) These are my future,” Proctor said, placing her hands on her sons’ shoulders.
(7) Internal candidates who could succeed Sorrell include Dominic Proctor, the head of WPP's media-buying arm, Mindshare, and Shelley Lazarus, boss of Ogilvy & Mather.
(8) 16 subjects self-administered 18 microcomputer-based tests (13 new, 5 "core"), without proctors, over 10 sessions.
(9) However, it had not been established that the Proctor-Dix method would prove reliable and practical when routinely applied in a clinical setting.
(10) Proctor denied ever having sexual relations with anyone under 16, and pointed out that the acts for which he was convicted would not be unlawful if committed today.
(11) A significant relationship between test anxiety and effects of the unfamiliar proctor on test performance was shown.
(12) Studies of a trpA mutant constitutive for tryptophan synthase production support the hypothesis of autogenous regulation (R. F. Goldberger, 1974; A. R. Proctor and I. P. Crawford, 1975) of the Pseudomonas putida trpAB loci.
(13) The paranoid police have pursued a homosexual witch-hunt on this issue, egged on by media, Labour MPs and a ragbag of internet fantasists.” Scotland Yard declined to comment on Proctor’s press conference, although detectives had previously issued a statement saying officers found Nick’s allegations to be “credible and true”.
(14) L’Oreal, Proctor & Gamble, Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser and Johnson & Johnson are showing contempt for their customers by refusing to answer questions from MPs about the damage their personal care products are doing to our waters,” the Labour MP said, ahead of the hearing.
(15) Adequate training for surgeons already experienced in abdominal and biliary tract surgery can be acquired through a preceptorship in diagnostic laparoscopy, attending a course in laparoscopic surgery that includes both didactic instruction and live animal experience, assisting with the procedures in humans, and being proctored and certified as competent by an experienced general surgeon.
(16) Claims that boys were murdered by VIP sex ring are credible and true - police Read more “I denied all and each of the allegations in turn [to police] and in detail and categorised them as false and untrue and, in whole, a heinous calumny,” said Proctor’s statement.
(17) Even business is making its way to the bathroom: Reckitt Benckiser, Proctor & Gamble and Unilever have all got into water access and sanitation (Wash).
(18) ● Over the same period, at locations including the Carlton Club, a flat in Dolphin Square and a central London home, Proctor was alleged to have been present at Christmas parties with Nick.
(19) Nick told police that the former MP was part of a group of men who abused him over a decade from 1975, according to Proctor’s statement.
(20) Lewis had been the brains behind the “love your body” advertising campaign for Unilever’s Dove soap brand and ran other successful marketing programmes for the household goods group around the world — including one that forced rival Proctor & Gamble to pull Ariel out of parts of South America because the name became synonymous with lavatory seats.
Proxy
Definition:
(n.) The agency for another who acts through the agent; authority to act for another, esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity.
(n.) The person who is substituted or deputed to act or vote for another.
(n.) A writing by which one person authorizes another to vote in his stead, as in a corporation meeting.
(n.) The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts.
(n.) See Procuration.
(v. i.) To act or vote by proxy; to do anything by the agency of another.
Example Sentences:
(1) The concordance, sensitivity, and specificity of proxy reports about partners' occupation, smoking, and drinking were examined in relation to self-reports.
(2) Then they look at a poll and assume that a poll is a proxy for what is really going on.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest David Cameron and Crosby during the London mayoral campaign in 2012.
(3) The overall impact may be estimated by relating the degree of urbanization of populations to some proxy measure, like the under-5 mortality rates.
(4) In two-stage epidemiological study the screening wave and the diagnostic instrument should be considered together in relation to a third proxy gold standard such as progression of the disorder to moderate and greater severity and neuropathological diagnosis.
(5) After the diagnosis of Munchausen syndrome by proxy was made, the child was removed from the mother and he has since enjoyed good health.
(6) Mullen said earlier this week there is a "proxy connection" between Pakistani intelligence services and the Haqqanis, meaning the militants are secretly doing the Pakistanis' bidding.
(7) The results of the study suggest that in urban Bangladesh 24-hour recall and knowledge-attitude-practice questionnaires should not be used as proxies for direct observation of hygiene practices.
(8) This plays into the widespread belief that Muslims are under attack from a belligerent west and its local proxies.
(9) But the last thing we need is to start a proxy war between the generations.
(10) Saudis and their Sunni Arab allies view Houthi fighters – who belong to the Zaydi sect of Shia Islam – as Iranian proxies and have accused Tehran of militarily backing them, a charge Iran vehemently denies.
(11) Readiness to negotiate with Cameron shrinks if it starts to feel like a negotiation with the backbench of the Conservative party using Cameron as a proxy.
(12) Less confidence can be placed in proxy-based reconstructions of surface temperatures for AD 900 to 1600, although the available proxy evidence does indicate that many locations were warmer during the past 25 years than during any other 25-year period since 900."
(13) But beyond this, Ramsey has a fundamentally different conception of the child from McCormick, and therefore gives a very different interpretation to this standard for valid proxy consent.
(14) Find out the accepted forms of photo ID To apply to vote by post or proxy, visit the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland website to download the correct form.
(15) Length of service was a good proxy predictor for most respiratory abnormalities, while respirable dust was a good proxy for respirable free silica.
(16) Pentagon assurances about the parlous state of its Syrian proxies are in doubt: within a week, it initially denied and then conceded that one group provided US equipment to al-Qaida in Syria and that it has paused the process of adding new recruits.
(17) He also hinted that western intelligence agencies had helped in the emergence of Isis, using the militants as a proxy to fight against the Syrian regime and thereby “putting the blades in their hands”.
(18) I think on issues like climate change and evolution it ends up being a proxy for identity politics,” said Michael Halpern, a program manager for the nonprofit and nonpartisan Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).
(19) The delivery also comes amid an increasingly hot – if still largely proxy conflict – between Iran and Saudi Arabia, most recently in Yemen where the US has backed Saudi Arabia.
(20) Hagel reportedly urged the White House to clarify its intentions with regard to Assad, which analysts warn is a self-imposed obstacle to building its Syrian proxy force.