Imitating certain accents gives the perception that someone is simply being racist, he says.
The idea of imitating France, with its budget deficits and sickly manufacturing sector, seems bizarre.
But are their leaders just calling for more taxing and spending and imitating old-style Labour policies?
For Muslims, imitating the faith's founder is also given as a reason for growing beards.
Lars Rasmussen thinks it can, by imitating one of e-mail's strengths and avoiding one of its weaknesses.
But with this now in question, he runs some risk of imitating Mr Major's fate here too.
Exotic car makers around the world are, if not imitating the Corvette's construction method, duplicating it in principle.
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Djokovic is an ace at imitating the likes of Federer, Nadal and Sharapova.
The third case was brought by McDonald's, which was suing the other companies for using and imitating its brand.
When Wiig finally breaks free, she has a ball imitating the prissy condescension that Byrne assumed for the role.
But maybe the real story is the reverse: Is it Europe that will soon be imitating the United States?
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The dance is transmitted and learned simultaneous with its performance, with young children taking part, imitating the adult dancers.
Golf has an interesting way of imitating life or, I guess, vice versa.
His helpers half a world away worked overnight on a schedule imitating an average 9-to-5 workday in the United States.
He won an autographed copy of the book "iWoz" for submitting a video of himself imitating Wozniak's dance moves to VoteWoz.com.
It provides more vertical space between the keys, imitating the steel bands that separated the hardware keys on the BlackBerry Bold.
"I wasn't rambunctious in class, " the actor says, "but I was clearly better at imitating my teachers in the schoolyard than studying!"
Over time, various legal, judicial, regulatory, educational, administrative, governmental and other institutions are established, typically by imitating successful models in developed countries.
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Now, from sports to a story about life imitating art, imitating life.
Is it life imitating art, or the subliminal power of the screen?
With abject competitive fury, he was not above imitating the grand dragon of the Venice art world, Titian, and his designated successor, Veronese.
When I was 9 and 10 years old I would spend hours singing his songs and imitating the way he played the guitar.
If ornithologists told us that starlings were imitating the group behavior endemic to tech-adoption culture, it would be easy to see the similarity.
Thanks to counterfeiters' imitating everything from the look of the bottles to stealing Vineland's brand name, he sells only 5% of that today.
Because few books or drawings existed at the time, apprentices would learn the trade by watching Masters and imitating them as closely as possible.
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You can bet it will be startups that innovate around social and the incumbents who mock, then dismiss, then grope to catch up by imitating.
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Performers will include amateur singers, a dancing troop of monks imitating an eight-armed Buddha and a man who can pedal a bicycle with his hands.
The natural model for learning, largely based on the power of mirror neurons, came from watching and imitating others, then repeating the action over and over.
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Over time the three have managed to slough off their reputation for imitating Rushdie, and Ghosh in particular has gone on to do some brilliant work.
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