Sentence examples for were closely modeled from inspiring English sources

These objects were closely modeled on Buddhist designs.

Governors and legislators in other states pushed similar legislation; a Mother Jones analysis found that state legislatures across the country passed 164 anti-immigration bills between 2010 and 2011, many of which were closely modeled after SB 1070.

They were closely modeled on the NP sentences, having the same type of syntactic structure and length, but with no discernible meaning.

Mr. Bush's proposal is closely modeled on legislation introduced last summer by Senator John McCain and Representatives Jim Kolbe and Jeff Flake, all Republicans from Arizona.

Democrats called McCarthy's legislation, which was closely modeled on a National Rifle Association-approved measure that the Senate rejected last month, "cynical" and unworkable.

Already off and running is a Facebook page called "Carol Burnettto Host SNL (Please?)!" that is closely modeled on the site that helped Ms. White land a hosting spot on "SNL".

It is a fictional drug that is closely modeled on real ones, down to the rosy television commercials and the dizzying litany of possible side effects.

(According to the Morgan's director, William M. Griswold, this particular section of the show is closely modeled on an arrangement in Mr. Kasper's apartment).

Released as a feature-length independent movie, "The Man Without a World" chronicles life in a Polish shtetl and is closely modeled on silent films of the 1920s.

His intuitive, cut-to-the-chase style of research was closely modeled on that of his more famous countryman Dr. Enrico Fermi, who won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938 and also became a professor at the University of Chicago.

As a student in the 90s he apparently did end up stranded at a trailer park with a lot of acid, and the film's main characters are closely modeled on the people he met and tripped with.