Children want to act like grown ups.

2) Don't just imitate

A parrot can imitate human speech.

A parrot can imitate the human voice.

This bird can imitate the human voice.

A parrot can imitate human speech.

She is good at imitating him.

Some birds can imitate the human voice.

Tom is very good at imitating people.

What, then, is an economist to do?

Their example is one that emerging country urbanites everywhere should seek to emulate.

Other regions tried to imitate its success, but none succeeded.

Every child needs someone to admire and emulate.

Admiration for American values does not mean, of course, that others want to imitate all the ways Americans implement them.

In this view, America s ingenuity represents its true comparative advantage, which others strive to imitate.

Despite this week s turmoil in Beirut, Lebanon has an advantage that Iraqis should emulate. The personal freedoms that Lebanese citizens enjoy give their country a special resilience, and its cultural dynamism is the envy of young people throughout the Middle East.

In particular, he would seek to emulate Lula s efforts to include vast sectors of the population in the benefits of a strong economy.

And I'm not saying that we should copy nature, I'm not saying we should mimic biology, instead I propose that we can borrow nature's processes.

Despite this week s turmoil in Beirut, Lebanon has an advantage that Iraqis should emulate.

So, where should countries look now, in 2010, for models of economic success to emulate?

But the US is no longer the country that others seek to emulate, or that they look to for global leadership.

But, what is more important, Turkey has become a model of success that many countries around us now seek to emulate.

A short hussar in tight riding breeches was galloping along bunched up like a cat in his desire to imitate an English jockey.

To imitate Putin (i.e. be above everyone) in Kyrgyzstan means to resign oneself to inevitable political defeat.

Palin and Bachmann speak this highly personal or emotional language, which even the most rock ribbed male Republican finds difficult to emulate.

Some evidence can be found in those features of the American economy that we believe others should emulate. There is now an overwhelming consensus that open, transparent, and accountable mechanisms of shareholder control are essential for the efficient functioning of public corporations.

And I claim that what happened was the sudden emergence of a sophisticated mirror neuron system, which allowed you to emulate and imitate other people's actions.

Some evidence can be found in those features of the American economy that we believe others should emulate.

This matters, because countries, like individuals, tend to emulate others that they resemble and admire.

Many commercially available computer programs can be set to mimic the styles of top grandmasters to an extent that is almost uncanny.

But this can work only as long as the US does not follow suit and continues to serve as consumer of last resort.

Western citizens do not rush to emulate the freedom fighters who built their world, despite celebrations, memorials, and the persistence of oppression.

We should now emulate the South Koreans, says Eisuke Sakakibara, a leading Japanese economist, who was one of the architects of the Japanese miracle of the 1980 s.

Success in establishing effective governance would establish a model that many of Egypt s neighbors would seek to emulate, at least partly.

The machines can now even be set to imitate famous human players including their flaws so well that only an expert eye (and sometimes only another computer!) can tell the difference.

Today, a democratic transition that the West sought to portray as a model that other Arab nations could emulate lies in tatters.

US Treasury secretaries have always loved to lecture their foreign colleagues on America s economic perfection, and why every country should seek to emulate it.

We would do well to recall how, at the beginning of the 1990 s, book after book was still being written urging US and European corporations to imitate Japan or face certain doom.

The West s efforts to emulate China are hindered by its inability to replicate the conditions of Chinese growth, such as labor mobilization, and its unwillingness to pursue practices such as the one child policy.

Israel could then mimic other nuclear armed states by flexing its capacity through announcement and transparent nuclear deployment on land and sea, thereby promoting deterrence.

At the time, some influential commentators warned that the Japanese had discovered a superior economic model, featuring strategic trade policy (among other attractions), and that the rest of us had better emulate them.

At the time, some influential commentators warned that the Japanese had discovered a superior economic model, featuring strategic trade policy (among other attractions), and that the rest of us had better emulate them.

As a result, Hatoyama s administration seems to be trying to emulate South Korea s former Roh Moo hyun administration, which foolishly sought to distance that country from its main defensive partner, the US.

One could emulate J.P. Morgan, whose standard response to questions about stock prices, bond prices, and interest rates was to say simply, The market will fluctuate.

The Trinidad and Tobago version evolved from the masquerade balls the islands' French colonisers would host when Emancipation came in 1833, the freed slaves were finally able to mimic their former masters without consequence.