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How to use the word imitated in a Sentence?

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[T]he Swiss people are the best practitioners of the ideals of non-aggression. The Swiss national government posts are parttime positions. Most decisions are made at the canton (state) level. Swiss per capita income is the highest in the world, showing that non-aggression pays. How did the Swiss come to adopt a relatively non-aggressive constitution in an aggressive world? In the mid-1800s, they imitated our constitution and stuck with it!

Mary J. Ruwart

added by Normando
4 years ago

The officers stopped the vehicle and were following their training as they had the suspected armed adults step out of the truck, when, unexpectedly, a 2-year-old girl climbed out of the truck and imitated her parents by walking towards the officers with her hands raised.

Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We’re talking about the fate of our economy and the questionable resiliency of our Nation’s critical infrastructure. Why are experts so polite, patient, and forgiving when talking about cybersecurity and National Security? The drama of each script kiddie botnet attack and Nation State pilfering of our IP has been turned into a soap opera through press releases, sound bites and enforced absurdity of mainstream media. It’s time for a cybersecurity zeitgeist in the West where cyber hygiene is a meme that is aggressively distributed by those who have mastered it and encouraged to be imitated by those who have experienced it.

James Scott

added by joaquintaylor
7 years ago

It was definitely not thought through, it was an isolated decision by the government, or more specifically by the Chancellor, which hasn't been imitated anywhere else in Europe.

Tilman Mayer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Joseph Brodsky

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes, Exemplary Novels (1613)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I say that good painters imitated nature but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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