Sentence examples for emulate the ways of from inspiring English sources

The clashes started on June 23rd when armed followers of Sheikh Ahmed Assir, a firebrand Sunni preacher of a Salafist bent who seeks supposedly to emulate the ways of the Prophet Muhammad, attacked a Lebanese army checkpoint.

A contrary trend thought the right response would come instead through a return to Arab roots and an ostensibly purer form of Islam: this gave rise to Salafism, which seeks to emulate the ways of the earliest Muslims and in which jihadism is rooted.

Thousands of people, including Salafist Muslims, who wear beards and long robes and aim to emulate the ways of the Prophet in a literal interpretation of the Koran, protested against the screening of a French-Iranian animated film they judged insulting to Islam.

Islam had grown assertive and belligerent; the ideologies of Westernization that had dominated the histories of Turkey, Iran and the Arab world, as well as South Asia, had faded; "indigenization" had become the order of the day in societies whose nationalisms once sought to emulate the ways of the West.

Other countries don't always seek to emulate the ways of America; but they do seek to measure those ways, always, for a potential fit.

My recommendation would be for Caesar to emulate the way of the bonobo, promote the female of the species and forgo nuclear fission.

If only Trump and his minions would study and absorb and emulate the way of being in the world that this young people model, what a world ours would be.

Mr. Korf writes that he tried to emulate the way old radio stations of his youth would bleed into each other as he listened.

Refraction effects were added to make light account for the physical attributes of an object and to emulate the way light is reflected by water.

Last year, Lawrence Young of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and colleagues caused meadow voles to emulate the faithful ways of prairie voles by adding extra copies of the V1aR gene to a portion of their brain (Science, 7 January, p. 30).

The boy regarded as a pariah in Brahmin society because of his mixed parentage becomes an impoverished immigrant in London, subject to racial and class prejudice, a marginal man trying to emulate the bohemian ways of his new friends.