7 sentences with “emulate”

Subsequent dynasties would look back to the Sassanids as the model to emulate, just as the Sassanids had emulated the Achaemenids.

Henry Ford's performance was difficult to emulate, and the solution adopted by his son Edsel was to refrain from intervening altogether.

Petrarch personally rediscovered the long-lost works of Cicero, considered the greatest writer of ancient Rome during the Republican period, and devoted himself to training to emulate Cicero's rhetorical style.

Although initially organised along tribal and clan lines, the Turks strove to emulate the more established Islamic empires that had preceded them by practising Islamic law (sharia) and sponsoring Islamic scholarship.

In other words, reading the classics inspired Renaissance thinkers to emulate the great writers and philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome, creating poetry, philosophy and theory on a par with that of an Aristotle or a Cicero.

It is also clear from archaeology that many Germans made a career of fighting in Roman armies and then returned to their home areas, and that many Germans regarded Rome as a model of civilisation to emulate, not as a permanent enemy.

Although most working-class men tried to emulate the middle class by keeping their wives and children out of the workforce, their economic situation often required others besides the male head of the household to contribute to their upkeep.