So, how do you do imitation? Why is imitation important?

That's an imitation.

That's imitation leather.

Mirror neurons and imitation, emulation.

Of course, Zhirinovsky's national socialist rhetoric has hidden his almost slavish subservience to the Kremlin.

Sometimes, Russian imitation produces works of genius.

Compare this genuine jewel with that imitation.

He compared the imitation with the original.

Other disorders are associated with defective imitation skills.

So, this is important for imitation and emulation.

There will be an imitation of elections instead.

What is the difference between imitation and real diamonds?

Fortunately for human development, healthy children find imitation enormously gratifying.

Substitute coffee, fake aluminum, imitation rubber, paper bandages, wooden buttons.

Tom tried to pass off an imitation for the original.

The two ladies were the chief representatives of a choice new Petersburg circle called, in imitation of an imitation of something, Les sept merveilles du monde.

Imitation, as the saying goes, is the sincerest form of flattery.

Because a monkey is a creature that is entirely an imitation.

Surely, imitation will someday impinge on superior US growth performance as well.

It arises partly from the fact that Russia is an imitation culture.

For one thing they must be involved in things like imitation and emulation.

China s move from imitation to innovation has been a matter of national policy in recent years.

Fortunately for human development, healthy children find imitation enormously gratifying. They enjoy both imitating and being imitated.

Other candidates' campaigns were so low profile that they looked more like an imitation of campaign activity.

Many Christians today see hot cross buns as an imitation of the unleavened bread eaten during passover.

The album was led by the single Imitation of Life , which reached number six in the UK.

It's incredible that you could write such a well designed program after just picking up programming by imitation.

The general structure of the OIG Test could even be used with non verbal versions of imitation games.

St. John Chrysostom wrote ...virginity is better than marriage, however good... Celibacy is...an imitation of the angels.

This is the basis. The imitation of complex skills is what we call culture and is the basis of civilization.

Indeed, imitation appears to be a vital key to understanding human development, from behavior and language to empathy and social skills.

In the context of the new Latin American left, Ortega resembles a shoddy imitation of Fidel Castro without the oil wealth of Hugo Chávez.

Imitation is so essential to mastering basic social skills and transferring cultural knowledge that it is likely to have an organic basis in the brain.

Why do I feel like the recent popular news catchphrase the China Dream is a bit hollow, is this an imitation of the American Dream ?

... Be this as it may, there was one custom of our master's, which I cannot pass over in silence, because I think it ... worthy of imitation.

And because it seems that these patterns are passed from one generation to the next, through observation, imitation and practice that is a definition of human culture.

As sports fans, musicians, and students of body language know, watching other people's movements and postures may facilitate the viewer's own motor schemes, sometimes resulting in unintended imitation.

Imitation appears to be a hallmark of tyrants in their exercise of power, so the absence of solidarity among Africa s journalists and Africa s peoples has created a dangerous vacuum.

It is tempting for Europeans to project their own history onto Asia and to view current developments there as a mere repetition, if not an imitation, of what occurred in Europe.

Egypt, whose new paradigm in foreign affairs increasingly looks like an imitation of Turkey s strategy of zero problems with its neighbors, needs the treaty at least as much as Israel does.

The neurons fire in imitation of the action being observed, causing the same muscles to act minutely in the observer as are acting grossly in the person actually performing the action.

Just what does all this mean for European growth and prosperity? Could it be that despite all the gripes about the American model, a little imitation of the American success story is now underway in Europe?

They re planning to put Alexander in a cell the so called sweat box where he ll face psychological and physical pressure from other inmates under the control of the prison administration, up to an imitation of suicide.

They're two sides of the same coin, just like innovation and imitation, like risk and responsibility, like peripetia and anagnorisis, like that poor little lamb, who I hope isn't quivering anymore, and like my time that's gone.

González Iñárritu, meanwhile, vies for the Best Director honor against American filmmakers like Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Richard Linklater (Boyhood), Bennett Miller (Foxcatcher) and the Norwegian Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game), who will all hope to bring home the award.