New Zealand as a location for Middle Earth, whose geography was explicitly modeled on the hills and forests of Tolkien's beloved England!
The First Five-Year Plan was explicitly modeled on Soviet experience, and the Soviet Union provided both material aid and extensive technical advice on its planning and execution.
Anybody who did anything, however indirectly, that contributed to saddling the country with health-care reform explicitly modeled on Romney's policies in Massachusetts, which in turn were based on a 1992 proposal from the Heritage Foundation, is far too left wing to be a credible G.O.P. candidate for President.
There are parallels between Obama and his two predecessors, to be sure — the president's midterm setbacks and subsequent recovery resemble Clinton's 1994-1996 trandctory, and his grinding, negative re-election campaign was explicitly modeled on Bush's 2004 effort, and achieved a remarkably similar outcome.
Urban Table, which opened in April, was conceived as an upscale T.G.I. Friday's or Houlihan's, Chip Grabowski, a partner in Harvest, said in a phone call after my visits, though it was more explicitly modeled on Hub 51, a restaurant in Chicago.
More recently, Jeremy Waldron (1993, 1999), Thomas Christiano (2008), Christopher Heath Wellman (2005), Anna Stilz (2009), and, arguably, David Estlund (2008; see §4.1, above) have refined and expanded upon Rawls's somewhat vague contention, some of them in ways reminiscent of or even explicitly modeled on Kant's defense of political obligation (see §1.5, above).
Years later, the architecture of apartheid was explicitly modelled on America's Jim Crow system of segregation.
St Paul's was even declared in 1791 a "Temple of British Fame", explicitly modelled on the Panthéon in Paris, to commemorate fallen heroes and celebrate national values.
That has always been especially true in America, a country whose institutions — from the Senate to the Capitol — are explicitly modelled on those of the Roman Republic.
A group that calls itself, wittily enough, the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, published its own report, twelve hundred pages long, explicitly modelled on the I.P.C.C.'s but reaching entirely opposite conclusions.
But the party will still have to square its demand for a repeal of the reform with the fact that it was explicitly modelled on the handiwork of its own candidate.
