Al Sharpton, who toured with him in the 1970s and imitates his hairstyle to this day.

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But using software that imitates a dolphin's brain may not distinguish DolphinSearch from its competitors.

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In fact, on the iPhone, it imitates a Bluetooth audio device, even though it doesn't do audio.

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On the track "Folding Chairs" off her new album, "Far" (Sire Records) Spektor imitates the sound a dolphin makes.

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The dance is inspired by the motions of farming, which it imitates through gestures such as walking the field ridges .

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The appeal is that the Kindle so closely imitates a book.

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This imitates what happened with another Glaxo drug, Lotronex for irritable bowel syndrome, which was withdrawn because it caused bowel obstructions but then put back on the market with serious restrictions.

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The fact that zombie art imitates life is not lost on those fearing real world apocalypse, which explains why no one is stockpiling wooden stakes, yet shotgun shells are becoming quite scarce in many parts of the country.

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Why China imitates western brands?

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One consequence of these fluid and deep cultural changes, which fit so poorly into some of our typical master categories, is a strong temptation to invite government to establish a new role in our lives that imitates and ratifies these social and individual ideas.

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