Sentence examples for said to emulate from inspiring English sources

It took its name from a noted Yorkshire cricketer whose batting skills Dodd was said to emulate.

Smith had been rendered hors de combat while attending some Texas film awards (why I always go to Cannes instead!) but he would attempt, he said, to emulate Smith's "Texas brogue".

He tells me a story that sums up his father's unflashy fortitude, something Walken admires and might be said to have emulated.

Its old guard is said to want the country to emulate its comrade to the north, China, which allows just 34 foreign channels to be beamed under censors' watch into upscale hotels and foreign business compounds, but not to the Chinese public.

Young women, she says, want to emulate black celebrities like the singer and actress Queen Latifah.

The solution, he says, is to emulate kids and other "Unracers" — people who bike for fun and not profit.

In recent weeks, he has been giving the tour to delegations from rival museums, and he expects, he said, to be "plagiarized, imitated and emulated".

At first, he said, he tried to emulate his heroes.

In writing the book, Mr. Taylor said he wanted to emulate the adventure tales of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Mr. Scott said he hoped to emulate Mr. Thurmond's attention to constituents, though not his longevity in Washington.

CommonWealth, he said, had moved to emulate a Securities and Exchange Commission proposal, which never went into effect, related to director elections.