Chris Thair, the chief operating officer of Wales Rugby League, believes an increasing emphasis on players' size and attempting to emulate the physiques of professional players are a contributing factors.
On the academic side, institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Oxford are hard at work mapping the human brain and attempting to emulate it.
He called his last single, Make Me Wanna, a kind of "countrified Bee Gees" and he attempted to emulate Justin Timberlake's suit-and-tie dance moves in its video.
Kubin's early drawings were usually executed in an ink-and-wash technique that attempted to emulate the velvety aquatints of Redon and Klinger.
It was most notable for the very notorious, friendly relationship between mother and daughter (Lorelai and Rory) that we envied or at least attempted to emulate and live vicariously through the interactions with our own moms.
The notion that an entire army could be encircled and annihilated within a single stroke led to a fascination among Western generals for centuries (including Frederick the Great and Helmuth von Moltke), who attempted to emulate its tactical paradigm of envelopment and re-create their own "Cannae".
By tweaking the size and orientation of matrix pores, researchers attempted to emulate variations of cellular structure and function in a real cortex.
In the intervening decades artists as diverse as Spiritualized, Krautrock pioneers Amon Düül and electronic minimalists Silver Apples have attempted to emulate his freeform style.
My Dad was very proud of his list, and at an early age I attempted to emulate him, so I originally kept a journal of all the books I read.
Quoting advice from an editor friend, she said, "What if you write the kind of book that you would love to read?" With "Love, Loss, and What We Ate," Lakshmi has attempted to emulate her favorite writers, M.F.K. Fisher, Mary Karr and Joan Didion — no small feat, as she acknowledged with a laugh.
