On one point Mr Kok was very clear: The European Union should not try to emulate the US economy.
David Duffield may not wish to emulate the lonely recluse of Citizen Kane, but the billionaire businessman is continuing the fictional--and often real life--tradition of construction extravagance.
He is determined not to stage a repeat as he bids to emulate his 2008 triumph in the FedExCup playoffs.
Ironically, PSG was recently bought by the Qatar Investment Authority, and is not shy about planning to emulate the successful blueprint of Manchester City.
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But it now looks certain he will not be given the chance to emulate Indian Test star Rahul Dravid, who turned out for the Salties in their debut season.
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Although China is making it possible for Africans to visit, study and work in China, it is not asking, or requesting, other countries to emulate it or support its values.
Many tried to emulate him, not forgetting the part about taking on some margin debt.
But, beyond that, failure and humiliation is not something that others would want to emulate.
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He will be able to point to Moscow's prosperity, inviting the rest of Russia to emulate it, not envy it.
It is ironic that the very band they are trying to emulate probably did not make enough money in their spluttering career to pay for one of the industrial-strength speaker stacks that dominate the skyline whenever Metallica play live.
Not a man any respectable drinker wants to emulate.
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"There's not going to be too many people trying to emulate us, " says McDonald.
Indeed, Cincinnati Works is not working with groups in 20 other cities to emulate its job readiness program.
"They say they're marketing a lifestyle, but it's not a lifestyle I would want my kids to emulate, " says Granholm, mother of three.
Sorry, Wall Street Journal and Kay S. Hymowitz, they may act a little less mature than the men we have been told to emulate, but the good men have not GONE anywhere .
The striving of his successors to emulate him in authority could only be emulation, and not an article of faith for posterity.
It is not a model that many can emulate: most parents with the skills to run a mid-sized business already have their hands full.
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Still, if Mr Obama is going to emulate the economic record of any predecessors, Mr Clinton is not a bad one to pick.
Internet retailers may not be able to replicate author events, per se, but they certainly can emulate them, thanks to technologies such as Skype group video.
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Not an admirable role model but one that millions of movie-goers would like to emulate.
Whether the new Wembley can emulate its predecessor remains to be seen, but the Millennium Stadium, full or not, looks like being the place to be this weekend.
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