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1. We are also not here to be preoccupied with indiscriminate or unregulated gratification of the senses, or to imitate the behaviour of others whose lives are so misdirected
2. fingers when milking the cows and then imitate him later
3. How is it that Paul could tell people to imitate him? Shouldn’t we be imitating Christ? And yet, these words are found in our Bible
4. We are to actually imitate Paul
5. I began to love the music, any kind, and sometimes when Apollo grabbed me, I'd imitate the impassioned dancers I'd seen on TV and Nikos would pretend to be impressed, 'Hey, Godfrey
6. He kissed her anyway and she returned it, as passionately as when she tried to imitate Yellelle
7. Oh the mainlanders tried to imitate us as much as they could, they could clearly see we were a whole different order of civilization
8. They set to the meal in a leisurely manner, Harry trying to imitate Mr
9. Afterwards, when she brought her picture-book, he asked, "What horrid beasts have you there?" And if his grandmother told them stories, he always interrupted her; besides, if he could manage it, he made fun of her and would imitate her so other people would laugh
10. He was soon able to imitate the gait and manner of everyone in the street
11. Everything that was peculiar and displeasing in them--that Kay knew how to imitate: and at such times all the people said, "The boy is certainly very clever!" But it was the glass he had got in his eye; the glass that was sticking in his heart, which made him tease even little Gerda, who loved him completely
12. But now come to think of it, crystal is harder than steel isn't it? Maybe this yandrille design will be the one to imitate and this very early model will be a collectors item? That would be too much luck to believe in and she laughed at herself
13. their bodies and use the blood to imitate sores
14. We discover that we cannot imitate the sounds of nature, but we try
15. I certainly tried several times to fall onto one by “accident” but he was too nimble, and he gave me a few kicks in the ribs for my "f longhaired liberal tendencies, trying to imitate the Special Task Force
16. in the leafless boughs sang, as it moved about, as though to imitate
17. With swimming we always made sure that we do not imitate the doomed Rhodesian patrol
18. The buy now pay later approach to consumer spending has provided many families opportunities to imitate extravagant lifestyles that many could not otherwise afford if left to their own resources
19. At best, planned intelligence may imitate the various forms or likeness however not the sameness of human intelligence that cultivates its own rational manners by inherent rather than exterior designs
20. Sophisticated Americans, or those who fancy themselves as such, may oftentimes try to imitate or adopt European manners without quite succeeding in pulling it off; much in the manner of a saloon girl vested in all the gaudy trimmings feigning respectability at the opera house!
21. He was trying to imitate Wolf Snitzler but found it hard going
22. Asked if an army can be made to imitate the SHUAI-JAN, I should answer, Yes
23. I tried to imitate
24. “Ze-e va-aarr!” he said, bulging his eyes and then aiming and shooting with an imaginary sort of rifle, even taking proper care to imitate the recoil
25. The Patriarch continued, trying to imitate Ursempyre’s voice, with mixed results:
26. Trying his best to imitate Jalesow’s coarse accent, Colling said, “Hello,” into the mouthpiece
27. They allow us to imitate behavior
28. Fan: Work of the flesh to imitate a cool breeze of the Spirit; division of the impure and pure; Christ’s fan in one’s hand: purging His threshing floor
29. Otherwise, Cuauhtzin would make little cooing sounds to him and he would giggle and imitate them
30. Male drivers are warned not to imitate these techniques as report indicates that men, whom
31. time, the magicians failed in their attempts to imitate the Lord’s sign
32. “At last it came to Rinco to try and call to the birds in their own language, and so he listened closely for their cries and tried to imitate them
33. It seems she would only imitate one of the servants, who, among her other tasks, had to take care of the bird
34. The footprints to imitate them are found inwardly in
35. 22 But, as though transformed by fire into immortality, he nobly endured the rackings, saying: 23 Imitate me, O brethren,
36. We cannot imitate Him
37. Who is to say whether a piece of art is faithful to the inner nature of the artist? The old conundrum was, does art imitate nature, or does nature imitate art? The question now becomes whether art imitates an infinite number of inner natures, and whether society, through its individual constituents, imitates art
38. I decided to imitate his “smolder” and rest my chin in my hand as well
39. imitate the rich Englishmen of the period
40. I hit the bars with Tess and tried to imitate her direct approach
41. At one point he got frustrated and tried to imitate some movie, or
42. 22 But as though transformed by fire into immortality he nobly endured the rackings saying: 23 Imitate me O brethren nor ever desert your station nor abjure my brotherhood in courage: fight the holy and honourable fight of religion; 24 by which means our just and paternal Providence becoming merciful to the nation will punish the pestilent tyrant
43. Let us imitate the three young men in Assyria who despised the equally afflicting furnace
44. Moreover adultery is committed not only by those who pollute their flesh but by those who imitate the heathen in their actions
45. I began to nervously walk in circles, as if I were trying to imitate a
46. If Paul is the chief of all sinners how can he command people to imitate him as He imitates Christ? There is no sin in Christ, so that would be blasphemy to call yourself the chief of sinners and then tell people that you are imitating Christ! If Paul was the chief of all sinners, yet so great a Christian, then pastors who cheat on their wives and run off with their churches money should be praised for being like Paul! Nonsense
47. So if you’re angry or sorrowful all the time, it’s not from God! It is very wise for us to imitate our God in being very slow to anger, and abounding in love, lest our anger lead to sin
48. You don’t have to imitate your competition and become the same as them, but
49. Becky tried to imitate me
50. Perhaps the first thing that comes to your mind is to imitate the successful sites, since copycat ideas are simple and practicable
1. "How many poor slave traders did you have to kill Lieutenant Petrakis, to save those dirty child sex slaves?" She imitated the young reporter with an exaggerated whine
2. dictionary means, "A person or thing to be imitated; model; pattern”
3. We mention this definition to point to that an "example" is to be followed or imitated
4. We mention this definition to point out that an "example" is to be followed or imitated
5. He imitated turning the key in his car
6. Just roll your hands over and over slowly like this,” And the old man slowly revolved his hands around an imaginary point in front of him; the younger man imitated
7. They took up the tools and imitated his instructed movements
8. He set each lady at the beginning of a length of rail, and they imitated his movements
9. To dream that you are being imitated suggests that you are setting an example of yourself
10. Our country gentlemen, when they imposed the high duties upon the exportation of foreign corn, which in times of moderate plenty amount to a prohibition, and when they established the bounty, seem to have imitated the conduct of our manufacturers
11. With a roll of her eyes, the Elf sat forward and her companions imitated the posture instantly
12. ‘He must have imitated somebody else’s hand,’ said the King
13. The Canadians slavishly imitated them, mealy-mouthing all the time, ‘Thank God we’re not Americans
14. 1 And I answered and said: 'he who lighted has taken from the light, and there are but few that have imitated him; but those many
15. I imitated his shrug in noncommittal concurrence, the jock had a point
16. 1 And I answered and said: 'he who lighted has taken from the light and there are but few that have imitated him; but those many whom he has lighted have taken from the darkness of Adam and have not rejoiced in the light of the lamp
17. Other Fjordane-men, seeing Haki's luck, followed him with roars that imitated his
18. sinful tendencies of parents are imitated and learned by their
19. imitated Christ, but their hearts were far from Him
20. Personal taste becomes the style that is imitated by all subjects
21. Her coiffure imitated that of the queen's, on her feet were gilded sandals such as Taramis wore in her boudoir
22. On a venture Conan imitated it
23. When six arms were up with grenades, Nancy made a deliberate move and pulled the safety pin out, then let fly the spoon and threw away her grenade, imitated by the others
24. Farnsworth was activating his microphone, remotely connected to Charlie’s camera, when the pickup truck suddenly accelerated, while one of the men standing in the back took out an AK-47 assault rifle from behind piled up vegetable crates and started shouting, imitated by his two companions
25. sarcastically stated as he imitated his wife
26. Seeing this, the Empress ran to Hirohito and knelt before him, imitated by her four daughters and two sons
27. He knelt for a moment, imitated by the others around him, to pray while contemplating the face of the ancient patriarch and of his wife and Egyptian slave girl
28. After a short hesitation, the boy got up and walked around his dead mother to be hugged by Sylvie, soon imitated by the toddler girl
29. One BETTY, its big, unprotected main fuel tank pierced by red-hot shrapnel, turned into a flying torch, soon imitated by another bomber
30. MacArthur then put down his receiver, imitated by Brereton
31. Knocking on the door and waiting for a response, Hicks opened the door after hearing an answer, leading Ingrid in the room and coming to attention, imitated by Ingrid
32. Arnold then got up from his chair, imitated by Ingrid, and went to shake her hand
33. In Tel Aviv, a disillusioned Mossad agent named Bennie Kellerman also went against the flow and bet for Nancy, imitated in Teheran by Lieutenant Farah Qalibaf, of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps Intelligence Bureau
34. Turner returned the salute of the captain, imitated by McCain
35. Piloting mostly on instruments in the darkness of the early morning, the small aviatrix made her North American B-25NG MITCHELL perform a wide turn over the ocean, imitated by the other fifteen medium bombers of her squadron
36. ’’ Said Turner before climbing down from his stepladder, imitated by McCain and Geiger
37. Ingrid stopped her column for a moment and crouched, imitated by her volunteers, then passed short orders down the line in a low voice
38. ����������� �My God, it�s Air Chief Marshal Dowding himself!�� Explained Doug as he snapped to attention and saluted, imitated by Nancy
39. This CSRF check enables CodeIgniter to mitigate against CSRF as the cookie set on a user's machine is unlikely to be guessed and imitated by an attacker on another machine who can then set that value in csrf_cookie_name and csrf_test_name
40. � The senior seamstress then saw with alarm Nancy�s right hand move to her right hip as she imitated an American western drawl
41. � Sensing that he would only endanger the lives of his airmen, Kesselring let his pistol drop and raised his hands above his head, imitated by Osterkamp, who slowly walked out of his office
42. I imitated the deer and began to travel and hunt mainly during the
43. Yamamoto nodded his head at that, imitated by Tojo and the other officers around the table
44. authority over the others around me when they imitated my lead
45. � The German woman, imitated by her two children, went to her knees and made the sign of the cross
46. Martinez nodded in approval and imitated her
47. Ingrid, imitated by the marines, quickly lay down in the grass and observed and listened for a few seconds
48. She then stayed silent while watching anxiously across the river, imitated by the two infantrymen besides her
49. Apparently satisfied, Hodge got up from his chair, imitated by Ingrid, and exchanged a handshake with her before departing, leaving Ingrid thinking
50. The women staying on the ground saluted the helicopter as it took off, imitated by Angie Dickinson and confusing Norrell
1. It merely imitates life in a manner that, however vague, is predicated on pictorial observations combined with (subjective) serial impressions formed by an individual over the course of his or her lifetime; that is to say, based on that individual‘s pre-conceived ideas
2. Arrggghhhhh,” Amy imitates a pirate while holding his arms down and slowly scratch up his arm to his chest
3. Who is to say whether a piece of art is faithful to the inner nature of the artist? The old conundrum was, does art imitate nature, or does nature imitate art? The question now becomes whether art imitates an infinite number of inner natures, and whether society, through its individual constituents, imitates art
4. If Paul is the chief of all sinners how can he command people to imitate him as He imitates Christ? There is no sin in Christ, so that would be blasphemy to call yourself the chief of sinners and then tell people that you are imitating Christ! If Paul was the chief of all sinners, yet so great a Christian, then pastors who cheat on their wives and run off with their churches money should be praised for being like Paul! Nonsense
5. find that art imitates life,
6. ” He imitates the motion with his hands
7. This imitates the interior of a sailboat and some powerboats
8. Poetry is a special kind of witnessing that reflexively creates a story that imitates the feelings presented to us by that unknowable reality
9. saying that even though a poem imitates the feeling of the unconscious , it does so by reflecting the conscious knowable world
10. The first is that any poet who unconsciously or intuitively imitates any of the thirteen poetic themes of the White Goddess will produce a “true” poem—a poem
11. However, the worshipper is destroyed if he imitates the manner of higher classes
12. he imitates the experienced worshipper
13. If the seeker imitates those who are superior to and ahead of him, he will be only burdened with fear
14. Loving imitates love, it does not adore, worship or place it upon a romantic, idealistic, altruistic pedestal
15. Don’t monkeys have tails? Well, Bokassa is the monkey who imitates Napoleon; he is the monkey who imitates the Pharaohs
16. their face - their moods; and, too, he imitates
17. The painter imitates not the original bed, but the bed made by the carpenter
18. For he, Adeimantus, whose mind is fixed upon true being, has surely no time to look down upon the affairs of earth, or to be filled with malice and envy, contending against men; his eye is ever directed towards things fixed and immutable, which he sees neither injuring nor injured by one another, but all in order moving according to reason; these he imitates, and to these he will, as far as he can, conform himself
19. That there are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, a third which imitates them?
20. Thus far then we are pretty well agreed that the imitator has no knowledge worth mentioning of what he imitates
21. We may state the question thus:--Imitation imitates the actions of men, whether voluntary or involuntary, on which, as they imagine, a good or bad result has ensued, and they rejoice or sorrow accordingly
22. Johnjohn admires Boy so tremendously and imitates him in everything
23. Simply put, an information cascade is a situation in which an individual imitates the behavior of others without regard to his own information
24. In the theory of cascades, a person imitates the actions of those who have preceded him in the cascade because he believes that they know something he does not know
25. “Life imitates art,” he said
26. Our Order imitates the ancient societies that explained their teaching by hieroglyphics
27. But, if we proceed from a district where one Leptalis imitates an Ithomia, another mocking and mocked species, belonging to the same two genera, equally close in their resemblance, may be found
28. The mockers and mocked always inhabit the same region; we never find an imitator living remote from the form which it imitates
29. In the same district in which a species of Leptalis closely imitates an Ithomia, there are sometimes other Lepidoptera mimicking the same Ithomia: so that in the same place, species of three genera of butterflies and even a moth are found all closely resembling a butterfly belonging to a fourth genus
30. ) Surely she's not coming back? (Imitates ANÍSYA
31. A third Vogul, with a bow, represents a huntsman on snow-shoes, and a fourth imitates with his voice a bird that warns the reindeer of their danger
1. How is it that Paul could tell people to imitate him? Shouldn’t we be imitating Christ? And yet, these words are found in our Bible
2. ” Titania made a gesture imitating Mrs
3. When they were just a little way from the house and Kaitlyn was already walking with her pole, properly Harry noted, he then also noticed that Chloe was imitating her every move and gesture as the three walked along
4. Helen of Troy also guesses the plot and tries to trick and uncover the Greek men inside the horse by imitating the voices of their wives
5. To dream that you are imitating others suggests that you are experiencing doubts in your own decisions and actions
6. Trouble is, this ‘imposter’ Silanus has been strikingly competent in imitating the original’s style and overall character of work
7. I ask you to please stop imitating the longhaired liberals by criticizing the police (SAPS) all the time
8. More seriously a “blue light” gang started to cause a lot of problems by imitating the detective's unmarked cars and pulling off the public with stolen blue lights and then robbing them or the car of both
9. But even that was better than imitating a Muslim without knowing it
10. Hillenbrand moved swiftly towards the table, laying his weight into the move, and imitating a sweep
11. If anything, the behavior of clearly evil Axis regimes is an argument for precisely why the Allies should have avoided not only imitating their barbarous practices, but doing them on a far larger and more inhumane scale
12. They have consistently demonstrated an uncanny, some might call it cynical, capacity of imitating the structure and style of popular issues that oftentimes falls short of their stated intentions
13. Their appearance and demeanor reminded Colling of stereotypical espionage agents he had seen in the movies, and he wondered whether the men were imitating Hollywood, or was it the other way around? Each of the men was standing by one of three cabs lined up on the dock
14. The meal was slowly but appreciatively consumed with Zoran imitating the noisy approval that Homulkar seemed to exhibit, accompanied by the hesitant, then more confident smile of the hostess as the meal progressed
15. and,” she gesticulated, imitating a low bow, and holding out her hand, “he says,
16. Next you’ll be imitating getting periods and acting like a bitch,” Jaden says while chuckling
17. Jay, a natural comedian, is imitating my frown on the stage when Emily comes to sit with me by the front row
18. He thought of imitating her for a moment, but her elven reflexes were up to the task, and he doubted his own were
19. He was imitating the mannerisms of actors from various war movies
20. Dressed in Chiang’s cloak, and imitating his small steps, I felt secure in my disguise
21. If Paul is the chief of all sinners how can he command people to imitate him as He imitates Christ? There is no sin in Christ, so that would be blasphemy to call yourself the chief of sinners and then tell people that you are imitating Christ! If Paul was the chief of all sinners, yet so great a Christian, then pastors who cheat on their wives and run off with their churches money should be praised for being like Paul! Nonsense
22. with a little baby imitating her
23. atmosphere of the place, which included a fountain in the lobby area, pleasant relaxing music imitating the sound of waves crashing on the beach, and employees, all dressed in white
24. -It is not correct? – Repeated Petrarco imitating the elf - what it’s not correct is that the Book has been taken without us
25. It seemed as if the rocks were imitating the sky
26. It looked like he was imitating a puckerfish
27. She had a particular gift of imitating her teacher’s speech and mannerisms drawing shrieks of laughter from her classmates
28. But with so many imitating the existing, or writing out of the libraries, there is a surfeit of pseudo fiction
29. By imitating (even to a small degree) the Creator we get insight into these Laws
30. DRACONES” – here there are dragons - put there by cartographers to signal dangerous unexplored territories imitating the medieval practise of drawing dragons and sea snakes and other mythological animals in the empty areas of the maps, where knowledge ended and legend started
31. “Bye-bye, you ugly, f#@%ing bugs,” Dave mocked as he waved imitating their pincers with his thumb and fingers
32. Wait a minute! You mean you are imitating the garbage trucks of Ratio World? Why?
33. Next thing they’ll be imitating motorcycles and motorbikes and ghetto blasters and car alarms and cell phones and what have you
34. “Why was she imitating her? How did she know who I was?”
35. Rattigan, imitating the MMARV’s technique, placed his hands on the dock and pulled his feet up between them as he raced to keep up with the MMARV
36. ” Then Rick, imitating Malik, scratched his ear with his own shoulder
37. Soon a civil defense alarm went off in the town and life was imitating art
38. imitating a hawk or an eagle, but he couldn’t
39. The Japanese coastal observers, blinded by the rising Sun, were too late in giving the alert as the B-17s jumped over the coastline and rushed towards the port of Naha, imitating tactics introduced to the British by Nancy Laplante
40. Ingrid obeyed immediately, imitating Jesus as he dove between the two successive waves of bombers
41. Phishing is such a stupid name for such a vicious act that involves imitating
42. resolutely imitating actors imitating soldiers, the soldier he never was
43. Before Shimori could say something more, Nancy stepped forward without any hesitation and, grabbing with two hands the rappelling rope hanging down outside of the forward starboard side door, slid down the ten meters to the ground, with a paratrooper imitating her at the port side door and rope
44. Like that,’ imitating Tommy Cooper, with a characteristic gesticulation of his arms
45. James McConnell took two seconds before imitating him, time for him to point the nose of his aircraft down towards an impressive-looking building whose façade was decorated with a huge red star
46. Blake looked around for the man and his daughter that was imitating
47. She is stunned to see the people imitating her and The Dianettes singing, steps and moves! She continues to stare at the people
48. “No, I just plant ideas,” I said as I joined them, imitating Mysterieau
49. never get that detail, however, because the preliterate speakers of the myth aren’t interested in explaining anything—they’re interested in imitating the essential drama of witnessing
50. acknowledge this mystery by imitating it