Sentence examples for emulate the achievement from inspiring English sources

The world No 12 has performed well on grass in the past and would love nothing better than to emulate the achievement of his boyhood idol.

He's No Nicklaus Greg Norman, 46, had hoped to emulate the achievement of Jack Nicklaus, who won the Masters at age 46.

Cook hopes to emulate the achievement of his predecessor, John Sheridan, with a brand of football any curious neutrals watching at Wembley or at home on television will enjoy.

Spurs and Mills's Australian team-mate, Aron Baynes, says "Patty embraces being a role model," and his desire to emulate the achievement of Cathy Freeman's gold-medal-winning 400m sprint drove Mills onwards.

Domenech was in typically enigmatic mood at the pre-match press conference here in Cape Town, as he began his final weeks in the job, hoping to emulate the achievement of 2006 when he guided Les Bleus to the final, where they lost on penalties to Italy.

With due respect to the Wales team of 1976 - who reached the European Championship quarter-finals, played under a different format - Welsh football has waited since for a team to emulate the achievement of Charles, Jones and Allchurch.

Hamburg are the German Nottingham Forest... though on the relegation front, it might take them 20 years to emulate the achievements of their English equivalent.

Jenson Button's achievement in following in Lewis Hamilton's slipstream to become the 2009 world champion is certain to attract another surge of wide-eyed teenage kartists into the sport, all keen to emulate the achievements of their latest hero.

John the Baptist" of 1413-1416, a landmark work, the first monumental bronze statue since antiquity, and — an astonishing technical feat — cast in one piece, combines the most refined elements of the Gothic sensibility and the ambitions of a Renaissance artist to emulate the achievements of the classical age.

If Wales beat Australia they would emulate the achievements of the Welsh team at the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987.

They hope to emulate the achievements of sports like cycling and rowing in targeting fresh talent that for them led to Olympic gold.