Sport is the hunt, the chase; it is war by proxy.

Even a discernible whiff of grace as Packer barges forward in his war by proxy with Murdoch.

This is what they did when they loosed the armies of their puppet states against the Republic of Korea, in an evil war by proxy.

Except in regard to Anne, a member of the Socialist Society, and thereafter always known as "Fred's Red", this was the cold war by proxy.