More than 19,580 emulative units are now designated as Moncadista Centers. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO READS MAIN REPORT AT PCC CONGRESS] Reference
But has Canada always been emulative of the Americans in political dysfunction?. From Wordnik.com. [2008 September 13 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference
The same bitter emulative spirit which had impelled him in football drove him to success in his study of the law. From Wordnik.com. [The Blood of the Conquerors] Reference
But most often it is emulative: Where do you get ideas for best-selling fantasy trilogies, and where can I get me some?. From Wordnik.com. [BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Schenectady, or, Where Do You Get Your Ideas?] Reference
The US will only get out in front of the emulative flow of global commerce by developing the model for a post oil society. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen C. Rose: 10 Reasons Private Cars Will Become Obsolete] Reference
Charbonneau replied with emulative alacrity, and finally, through the mist, they distinguished the group of huntsmen from Auberive. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The practice of reducing the dimensions of Cremonese instruments has happily come to be looked upon as emulative of the acts of the Goths and Vandals. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
Noble minds, emulative of perfection, (and yet the passion properly directed, I do not take to be an imperfection neither,) may be allowed a little generous envy, I think. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
That was the most inane gesture-as-policy (was it supposed to trigger a tide of emulative consumption by the sheeplike masses?) since Gerald Ford tried to whip inflation now with WIN buttons. From Wordnik.com. [No Happy Warriors Here] Reference
Their eagerness was emulative, and made them rapid in their haste. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.] Reference
Goethe grasped antiquity in the right way · invariably with an emulative soul. From Wordnik.com. [We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8] Reference
The gratification nearest home was the imitative, the emulative -- that is on my part: W. J. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Boy and Others] Reference
Schlegel urged that the new style must be emulative and aspiring, ever possessed of lofty ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Overbeck] Reference
The result is that the instinct of workmanship works out in an emulative demonstration of force. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
Taking the population as a whole, this predatory, emulative variant does not seem to have attained. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
Nor can a fairer kindred title moye His emulative age to glory's love Than Edward, laureate prince. From Wordnik.com. [Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of ...] Reference
Madame de Brience recovering her composure, with a firmness of mind, that excited the emulative admiration of. From Wordnik.com. [The Parisian; or, Genunine Anecdotes of Distinguished and Noble Characters] Reference
IT was a new idea -- the ecclesiastical and altruistic life as distinct from the intellectual and emulative life. From Wordnik.com. [Jude the Obscure] Reference
These traits are truthfulness, peaceableness, good-will, and a non-emulative, non-invidious interest in men and things. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
This is especially true if his dominant impulses are the unreflecting emulative propensities of the predaceous temperament. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
By degrees men and women are making ready to take their places in an emulative rather than a materialistically competitive order. From Wordnik.com. [An essay on the American contribution and the democratic idea] Reference
Both lines of aptitudes are cultivated and strengthened by the life of sport as well as by the more serious forms of emulative life. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
Then truly did the sentiment of emulative motherhood in her childish breast console her for the time for her need of her own mother. From Wordnik.com. [The Portion of Labor] Reference
But to say that the American legal profession is without ideals and lacking in the emulative spirit would be to do it a grave injustice. From Wordnik.com. [An essay on the American contribution and the democratic idea] Reference
Finally Menelek restored quiet by the simple expedient of a frown, whereupon each loyal guest exchanged his mirthful mien for an emulative scowl. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Continent] Reference
The reason is, simply, that to do anything that radical the TDP has to be competitive rather than collaborative and innovative rather than emulative. From Wordnik.com. [Brains and Eggs] Reference
So far as regards the serviceability of the individual for the purposes of the collective life, emulative efficiency is of use only indirectly if at all. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
Their daily life is not in the same degree a course of habituation to the emulative and invidious motives and maneuvers of the pecuniary side of industry. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
But this revulsion of the organism may be avoided if the attention can be confined to the proximate, unreflected purpose of dexterous or emulative exertion. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
Art historian Peter Hecht argued that the thematic motifs were designed to show off textural imitation or emulative awareness of one's predecessors and peers. From Wordnik.com. [Public marks] Reference
It is a concomitant variation of character of almost universal prevalence among sporting men and among men given to warlike and emulative activities generally. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
But it is time to resume our anecdotes of foxhounds, and the following is a proof of the high courage they so often display, as well as their emulative spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Anecdotes of Dogs] Reference
Sports -- hunting, angling, athletic games, and the like -- afford an exercise for dexterity and for the emulative ferocity and astuteness characteristic of predatory life. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
Before long, her emulative spirit got her so interested in this particular game that she forgot not only the sham skirt but the sham pretense upon which she had bullied Irene. From Wordnik.com. [The Madigans] Reference
They are partly simple and unreflected expressions of an attitude of emulative ferocity, partly activities deliberately entered upon with a view to gaining repute for prowess. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
This indirect or secondary use of consumable goods lends an honorific character to consumption and presently also to the goods which best serve the emulative end of consumption. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
So there are "boys 'brigades," and other organizations, under clerical sanction, acting to develop the emulative proclivity and the sense of status in the youthful members of the congregation. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
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