11.   India accuses Pakistan of waging a proxy war in Kashmir by arming and training militants, first Kashmiris and then bands of radical Islamists from Pakistan and Afghanistan.

12.   India accuses Pakistan of sponsoring a two-decade proxy war by Islamic militants to drive India from the mostly Muslim region both nations claim.

13.   It was the place where Israel and Syria could fight a proxy war, and let off steam, by killing Lebanese instead of each other.

14.   The biggest blow was the collapse of what President Ronald Reagan called the Evil Empire, which deprived red-blooded American mercenaries of proxy wars around the Third World.

15.   The competition among the various shoe brands looks rather like a studless tire proxy war.

16.   The dueling fund-raisers reflect the extent to which the Texas contest has become a proxy war for the next presidential campaign.

17.   The proxy war against India is considered by some senior officers to be strategically necessary to keep the much mightier arch-enemy off balance.

18.   The Soviet Union was struggling hardest against irreversible decline in those years, and President Ronald Reagan was pressing proxy wars against Moscow in Nicaragua and Afghanistan.

19.   The two nations are waging a bitter proxy war in Kashmir.

20.   They exploited the country by arming its various combatants to fight in superpower proxy wars as well as regional rivalries involving Pakistan, Iran and India.