Sentence examples for in an attempt to emulate from inspiring English sources

Sugar was planted in an attempt to emulate the success of the earlier settlement of Madeira.

I took to wearing black power-suits in an attempt to emulate hard-nosed businessmen.

In an attempt to emulate Greek statues of naked men, Brummel commissioned figure-hugging trousers and coats.

It is players like Bessa and the front man Marko Livaja, who has already tasted Serie A soccer during a loan spell with Cesena, to whom Stramaccioni could turn in an attempt to emulate the Barcelona model.

It will also underpin a 12-hour day of coverage on ESPN in an attempt to emulate the long build-up that the Cup final was afforded in a less frenetic media era.

It recently changed its name to al-Qaida in the Maghreb, in an attempt to emulate al-Qaida in Iraq, after receiving "official recognition" from Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy.

The Oliviers have become notably starrier and more razzle-dazzle in recent years – an attempt to emulate Broadway's Tony awards – and this year also brought changes in the judging, with West End producers and theatre operators voting alongside dedicated panels.

The climactic portion of the song is an attempt to emulate the sound of trip hop group Portishead, but in a style that bass player Colin Greenwood called more "stilted and leaden and mechanical".

Artificial neural networks are an attempt to emulate the processing capabilities of biological neural systems.

In an unfortunate attempt to emulate the social network turned over-used-punchline MySpace, Wal-Mart introduced a social page pitched to young adults called the Hub in 2006.

Peterson comes off as a peripatetic, romantic soul who craved an outlet for eccentric self-expression; after travelling to Mexico in a failed attempt to emulate Henry Miller, he returned, depressed, to the abandoned farm (which he inherited following his father's untimely death), only to be plagued by unneighborly accusations of Satan worship.