Sentence examples for efforts to emulate from inspiring English sources

He is a top manufacturing expert who was a leader in G.M.'s efforts to emulate Toyota's manufacturing system.

Efforts to emulate South Africa, he said, have been pretty successful in Peru and Mauritius, but failed in Guatemala and Liberia.

Attempts to dive deep or to sojourn underwater began long ago, but in man's efforts to emulate fish two very tough problems have always plagued designers of equipment: providing a supply of breathable air — or a suitable artificial mixture of gases — and protecting a diver from the immense pressure created by the weight of the water above him.

These efforts to emulate the past, however, have remained subsidiary to the main surviving forms of pageantry, namely the parade, the carnival, and the festival procession, at least one of which is practiced in practically every nation and which fulfill the assertion of national or communal identity in modern mass societies.

Attempts to dive deep or to sojourn underwater began long ago, but in man's efforts to emulate fish two very tough problems have always plagued designers of equipment: providing a supply of breathable air or a suitable artificial mixture of gases and protecting a diver from the immense pressure created by the weight of the water above him.

With intrusive narrators, slatternly plots, odd punctuation, and long, ambling digressions, books like "Tristram Shandy" and "Joseph Andrews" try the patience of many contemporary readers, and modern efforts to emulate them — Thomas Pynchon's "Mason & Dixon and Neal Stephensonn's Baroque Cycle spring to mind — are frequently greeted with exasperation.

But both are trimming their policies in an effort to emulate the insurgent's success.

The ventures are all part of an effort to emulate the appeal of the YouTube rival, Hulu.

Indeed, in an effort to emulate neighbouring Turkey, President Bashar Assad's government has posed as a regional champion of moderate Islam.

A few years later, we moved to Cornwall, where I had grown up, and were able to undertake a much more ambitious effort to emulate Tom and Barbara's Good Life.

One of Mr. Mack's signature changes was to push the firm further into trading using its own capital, an effort to emulate its profitable archrival, Goldman Sachs.