Much about the authorship of the invention is conjectural, but it is known that it originated in England some time in the 1750s and was imitated on the Continent (in Sweden c. 1766, in Germany c. 1770, in Switzerland c. 1775, and in France c. 1790).
3The English [End Page 102]libraries' acquisition of Jewish collections was imitated on the continent.
The flat, colorful style is imitated on cheap T-shirts, mugs and knick-knacks.
Many organisms on Earth employ survival strategies – including protective pigments, biofluorescence, and living under soil, water or rock – to cope with high levels of radiation that could be imitated by life on other worlds, the researchers note.
Bestiaries present accounts of animals whose fantastic behaviors should be imitated or avoided, depending on the given trait.
A domestic renaissance was near with the rise of "NYPD Blue" and "Law & Order," but the British shows had already established a template — brutal, sometimes unresolved stories; elliptical, multistranded narratives; tortured heroes — that would be imitated frequently but rarely improved on.
The dependence on the vortex size may be imitated by a power law ∝D2/3.
In a needy bid for viewers, public television imitates just as much as it's imitated, putting on pop knockoffs like "America's Ballroom Challenge".
