In this sense, India, China, Dubai and Mexico may be not imitators as much as harbingers.
The French Re-revolution of 1848 that established the Second Republic spurred many imitators across Europe.
The strategy campaign was so successful that other airlines soon followed suit and numerous imitators emerged.
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Any successful strategy is, of course, vulnerable to imitators who eventually trade away the profits.
In fact, Wallman now has his imitators: Fidelity Investments and E-Trade have similar offerings.
Planet Hollywood - backed by Demi Moore and Bruce Willis - spawned a host of imitators.
The logical next questions became: Will there be any imitators among the other browser vendors?
It was a sleek, pleasurable, and lucrative model, and it spawned endless imitators and spinoffs.
When it comes to the imitators, investors are going to vote with their dollars.
But the brothers' success spawned legions of imitators, and the quail-egg market was saturated.
And we change designs so often that imitators have a hard time catching up.
Oprah Winfrey (No. 2 on our list) is an exception who has spawned few entrepreneurial imitators.
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Despite the cachet of the red soles, Louboutin has not been particularly aggressive in fending off imitators.
All of us who write for those magazines are really nothing more than pale imitators of the man.
Then UK firms like Freeserve and a raft of imitators dramatically cut costs by offering "free" internet access.
But Lilly's marketing of fluoxetine has been so strong that it may actually remain competitive with its imitators.
Good imitators actively look for a new country or market as the innovation, rather than a new technology.
But in an industry where success breeds imitators, the growing popularity of international imports should come as no surprise.
Some of the takeovers were hostile, and Ling and several imitators made enemies.
Like Elvis imitators, the incubation field is drawing a lot of questionable talent.
Other times, the opportunity to make money is undercut by rivals and imitators.
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Critics now condemn Moses and his imitators as destroyers, not improvers, of cities.
Twitter offers verified accounts to help us discern public figures from their imitators.
And then we will see a lot of imitators and it would go into the general fashion across the nation.
As Palm was selling 18 million branded handhelds in its first five years, a cadre of imitators quickly leaped in.
Carrier Command was hugely ambitious, and hailed as one of the best games of its era, but spawned few imitators.
On the other hand, Gilt and its many imitators face similar constraints, and it has worked out fairly well for them.
Physical propinquity remains a powerful force for innovation: Silicon Valley and all its imitators suggest that geography is far from dead.
You could, for example, contribute the bond to a charitable gift account of the sort offered by Fidelity Investments and many imitators.
Big American brewers (and their imitators from Japan to Mexico to Australia) have long downplayed the role of hops in their lagers.
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