Sentence examples for had been imitated from inspiring English sources
He said many of Egypt's antiterrorism initiatives, like military tribunals, had been imitated by the Untied States.
By then, it was famed as a bastion of the modern movement, whose approach to arts education had been imitated all over the world.
By the time he cast a vote for himself in his bid for a seventh term on Tuesday, crime in Brooklyn had dropped 80 percent, and the anti-domestic-violence and drug-treatment programs he pioneered had been imitated around the country.
Years later, he realized that the singer was an imitator of Elvis Presley and that he had been imitating the imitator all along.
He said he had been imitating professional wrestling when the girl, Tiffany Eunick, died.
If young white musicians had been imitating black ones, it was partly because they had been able to do so in the dark, so to speak.
Isis' claim of responsibility was impossible to verify but police previously said they believed militants had been "imitating" the November attacks in Paris.
It introduced some of the top female names in rhythm and blues most notably Ruth Brown and LaVern Baker and signed Ray Charles, who had been imitating Charles Brown, and helped him find a new direction, which eventually would evolve into soul.
Its iPhone has been imitated by larger competitors like Samsung Electronics, Nokia, LG and Research In Motion.
Every aspect of his style, including his slight speech impediment, has been imitated.
Their sound has been imitated by bands from Black Sabbath to Nirvana.
