Sentence examples for closely imitated from inspiring English sources

Among the countries that closely imitated the Prussian system were Austria-Hungary, tsarist Russia, and Japan.

The words and music closely imitated the Resistance songs that the BBC had broadcast into occupied France.

(In another novel in which Shostakovich plays a major part, William T. Vollman's mammoth "Europe Central," the quartet's composition is detailed extensively — and Shostakovich's neurotic, lacerating style more closely imitated).

Venetian painters such as Titian, Palma Vecchio, and Lorenzo Lotto so closely imitated him in the early 16th century that it is at times virtually impossible to distinguish between them.

Because his art too closely imitated life — and death — the Polish novelist Krystian Bala was sentenced yesterday to 25 years in prison for the grisly killing of a businessman fished from the Oder River in 2000, The Associated Press reported.

The socialite C. Z. Guest used to claim that Ralph Lauren owed her royalties for having so closely imitated her style, that of a classic American sportswoman with great bones, a fierce forehand and an assured and unvarnished American kind of chic.

Though his harmonic language has pungently modern elements, the true modernism comes from the way the vocal lines closely imitate the rhythms and contours of the Czech words.

Naturally, Urdu poets began by closely imitating, often even plagiarizing, Persian masters, but later on they spoke in a more authentic voice.

Mr. Khayyat's group follows a puritanical form of Islam called Salafism that seeks to closely imitate the lives of the Prophet Muhammad and his companions.

Instead, a narrator, whose biography closely imitates Modiano's, tentatively tries to understand the secret history of the atmosphere in which he has grown up.

Packages with labels and vials closely imitating those of the real Neupogen have turned up in Florida and Ohio, said the F.D.A., which is investigating.