It was a curious remark to make for one who dreamed of emulating Alexander the Great. |
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He might well go close to emulating his feat on the course last week when he won four races on the card. |
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Last season they finished top of their group in the UEFA Cup and few would bet against them emulating that achievement this season. |
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Maybe a Kilmarnock or Hearts will prove us wrong by emulating Aberdeen and the Old Firm, but you would not put your shirt on it. |
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As a result, some small growers have been galvanised into action and are now emulating the Burgundians. |
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As for the players who are capable of emulating his achievements at the World Cup 38 years ago, he is tipping four stars to make a major impact. |
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He ingratiates himself into the life of the rich rakehell, emulating his actions, his speech, his body language. |
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He sets up multi-frame shots, emulating the look of a comic book, with a plethora of flashy screen wipes and dissolves. |
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Now, she dreams of becoming a big name producer emulating her idol, hip-hop star Kanye West. |
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Another 230 people took part in simulated tasks and interviews emulating the shopping experience. |
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So a movie fictionalizing a school shooting committed by kids emulating a movie is art imitating life which imitated art. |
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Jeff, who idolizes his mother, insists on emulating the conservative upbringing of his youth. |
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I get enough accusations of emulating Seto Kaiba, so I don't need anyone else accusing me of being a weeaboo. |
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The cheetah hurdled the gate without even breaking stride, a feat which the wolf didn't even think about emulating. |
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Incredibly, the killer appears to be emulating an American Indian warrior, scalping his victims, after murdering them with an axe. |
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She watched her older sisters be courted and then married, and she began emulating them at an early age. |
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As well as emulating Macmillan, Hall should also follow the example of another Scot, Lord Reith. |
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Together they spend the 60s trying and failing to make it big by emulating the Beatles. |
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The other industrialized nations are looking to Canada and emulating what we did over a year ago to stimulate our economy. |
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Croatia has taken decisive steps towards emulating mainstream European democratic institutions and practice. |
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He wouldn't miss today's final for the world, but even if they do succeed in emulating his achievement of 31 years ago, he has no plans for an elaborate celebration. |
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Consider emulating the steel foundries practice of insulating risers as a way to reduce their weight. |
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In fact, the fiscal forecasting track record in the US is not necessarily worth emulating. |
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I thought this was quite a feat worth emulating and I aspired to bring honour to my country, too, when I was of age. |
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The OIC recognizes the following two practices as good examples that other institutions should consider emulating. |
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There is no Bradman now and not a prayer of his successors emulating that feat. |
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For many players, his repertoire could serve as a model worth emulating. |
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But teenagers have diverse views when it comes to emulating the families they have grown up in. |
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And while no single business model will work for everyone, all successful ventures offer at least one technique or approach worth emulating. |
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Anyone who has taken music lessons knows the indignity of emulating a machine until every last human vagary vanishes. |
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It is a Tolstoyan study in human fallibility in the context of global history, the like of which nobody on this side of the pond has come close to emulating. |
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While male kings did so by emulating such male gendered qualities as martial skills and leadership ability, female kings had to emulate womanly qualities. |
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The day after she posted the video, the actor Kellen was emulating caught wind of what was making the inbox and Twitter rounds. |
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Admittedly, Doolittle has a way to go before emulating the poetic majesty of the late Winehouse. |
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A fantastic range of modern and traditional architecture, with the modern architecture being sympathetic to the traditional, while not slavishly emulating it. |
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At other times, he spoke of emulating the settler movement, of which he was a follower in his youth. |
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New York has some very interesting energy efficiency and green building programs that we are emulating. |
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Whilst Courbet was an open revolutionary, Manet did not deliberately produce provocative paintings, in his eyes he was emulating the early greats. |
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Anheuser-Busch has reacted in Pattonesque style, emulating the general's dictum that a good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. |
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Rivers could be found at that moment emulating, if rather improbably, Émile Bonnard. |
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Who knows, within a few years we could see NHS staff emulating patient networks such as patientslikeme. |
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Kutcher elaborated on reports that he fell ill after emulating Jobs's fruitarian diet. |
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District residents were emulating the famous Venetian Carnival, when, years later, the carnival was organized by the Huanchaco Club. |
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In China, the German Civil Code was introduced in the later years of the Qing Dynasty emulating Japan. |
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And the whole object designed and illustrated by Stanley, with patterns of reprise existing between the two halves, emulating the echoic nature of the holloway itself. |
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Displaying an astonishing resemblance to the original stars and perfectly emulating every gesture and expression, the impersonators sing live and present a stage show that will amaze you. |
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Leaders of the Lavalas Family, a party that grew out a movement that originally set out to assert the right of the poor to meet their basic needs, ended up emulating the habit of the rich of squandering resources. |
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What he seemed to be doing was almost emulating the bossa nova style, but really minimally. |
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The late Tim Hetherington had a theory that men behave in war by emulating men seen in other films and photographs, endlessly altering the behavior of soldiers and the concept of soldiering. |
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So Roy Carroll, Carlos Cuellar, Lee McCulloch and Jean-Claude Darcheville will be tasked with emulating the achievements of Andy Goram, Richard Gough, Brian Laudrup and Mark Hately. |
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It is also why many other nations are emulating our actions, actions that have been widely viewed as the most prudent course of action leading up to this global economic recession. |
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Other countries are now emulating this model. |
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It would like all the nuclear powers to make a firm commitment to emulating its approach, based on a posture of strict sufficiency in nuclear arsenals. |
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Set values specific to the type of terminal you are emulating. |
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They are therefore also a mechanism for illustrating the potential benefits of emulating policies and institutional arrangements that have been successful in other countries. |
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The annual meetings of the system's medical directors also represent an interesting example worth emulating by other common services where appropriate and feasible. |
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It is seen as a best practice that other countries are emulating. |
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In 1961, Don Revie introduced a plain white strip throughout, in the hope of emulating Spanish side Real Madrid. |
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The Spanish Bourbons monarchs' prime innovation introduction of intendancies, an institution emulating that of Bourbon France. |
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Hui employs biomimicry, a design discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature's time-tested patterns and strategies. |
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Culter came close to emulating their Aberdeenshire rivals, holding Berwick Rangers, to a 1-1 draw. |
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There was little attempt at emulating late 18th-century performance practice beyond some ornamentation added at fermatas by the principal singers. |
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In stark juxtaposition, four women emulating harem odalisques frame the composition recreating the stereotypical pictorial pun, Orientalizing the royal zenana. |
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Djamaluddin Malik's Persari often emulating American genre films and the working practices of the Hollywood studio system, as well as remaking popular Indian films. |
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The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors. |
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Sweep-mode enables these superheterodyne receivers to sweep a relatively wide RF bandwidth, in effect emulating the wide capture bandwidth of a superregen receiver. |
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He seeks to persuade the queen not merely to emulate the Amazons' vigilant territoriality but to overgo them by emulating the Spaniards' rampant invasiveness. |
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