(1) The CIA sent a cable to its foreign stations warning of possible copycat incidents.
(2) Pegida marches and copycat events in other cities attracted thousands of people, but they were vastly outnumbered by tens of thousands of counter-demonstrators insisting Germany is a multicultural country that welcomes immigrants.
(3) Their story involves a fraudster who posed as their builder, set up a copycat email address and even managed to mock up an incredibly realistic fake invoice.
(4) But like BBC1’s The Voice - since lost to ITV - one person’s distinctiveness is another person’s copycat.
(5) The English riots were described as a tidal wave of copycat disorder that swept across towns and cities with uncanny repetition.
(6) She said the measures in SB2305, the copycat bill similar to the one being challenged by the CRR in Mississippi , were unnecessary, because the RRWC had a safety record above the national average.
(7) His tips include avoiding copycat shows, keeping it authentic, getting the casting right with lots of personalities and heroes, and incorporating emotion.
(8) The Norway attacks have raised concerns copycat operations may take place in Europe .
(9) The primary goal here is to reassert the rule of law and try to avoid copycat occupations,” said David Hayes, a visiting lecturer at Stanford Law School and former deputy secretary of the US Department of the Interior.
(10) "Most of those who were involved were arrested and it stopped any further copycat rioting."
(11) Danish intelligence services have suggested the fatal Copenhagen shooting of a film-maker at a freedom-of-speech debate and a Jewish security guard at a synagogue may have been a copycat of last month’s Paris attacks on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket.
(12) However, this attack is later revealed to be no copycat operation and one that had been months and probably years in the planning.
(13) · Meanwhile, don't respond too harshly if coverage of the election, or of anything else for that matter, is a bit sparse in the New York Times, since the entire staff at the paper's head office in Manhattan seem to have been completely distracted from their work by two stuntmen climbing their new skyscraper - the famous French "urban climber" Alain Robert, and a copycat.
(14) "My criticism of the Met police is the message that this sent out and it was the fundamental cause of copycat violence in a number of other cities."
(15) Denmark’s spy chief, Jens Madsen, said the gunman – who was known to police because of past violence, gang-related activities and possession of weapons – had perhaps been trying to stage a copycat attack of the three days of bloody mayhem in Paris last month, which began with a massacre of cartoonists and others at the offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and ended in a murderous siege at a kosher supermarket.
(16) The Global Times newspaper described the incidents as "plotted copycats" of the riots in Lhasa in March 2008.
(17) "I don't think Bristol really does copycat riots, I think we tend to start the riots.
(18) "Years of mass production and copycat trends have created a huge yearning for truly personal style and looks, without the boundaries of supposed perfection."
(19) Italians fearful of copycat Chinese imports killing off demand for their prized homegrown delicacies have added another culinary touchstone to the danger list: the chestnut.
(20) Officials at the government's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) said under-reporting of incidents involving female abusers was a concern and warned that "copycat" abusers may attempt to replicate the abuse that took place at Plymouth's Little Ted's nursery, where George worked.
Ingenuity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining.
(n.) Curiousness, or cleverness in design or contrivance; as, the ingenuity of a plan, or of mechanism.
(n.) Openness of heart; ingenuousness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their tempo was better in the second, although there remained the general lack of ingenuity.
(2) Haki's naivety about English detective fiction is more than matched by Latimer's ingenuous excitement as Haki describes to him Dimitrios's sordid career, and he decides it would be fun to write the gangster's biography.
(3) Britain's success is built on the ideas and ingenuity of those who have come here from abroad.
(4) The economy minister, Arnaud Montebourg, said the government was concerned about Alstom's future, calling it "the symbol of our industrial power and French ingenuity".
(5) He does not have the ingenuity of Diego Maradona or the lawless wit of Luis Suárez, so does not cast spells over opponents, but he has shown that he can certainly help subdue them and uplift his team.
(6) Clean, regenerative energy could provide a way past peak oil and our detrimental fossil fuel addiction – if we collectively had the will to employ renewables, and addressed the change as urgently as the US did during the second world war when we unleashed our scientific creativity and industrial ingenuity to support the war effort.
(7) The UN has criticised these policies , which display none of the ingenuity or flair of the street papers or Housing First advocates, whose methods, while not perfect, have at least been shown to reduce urban homelessness.
(8) Beaumont, wide of eyes and clutching her handbag, has a lovely ingenuous manner, and a reliably crowd-pleasing set, but her brand of comedy is as cosy as a Hovis ad .
(9) It’s when we have untrusted heads of these old institutions that everything seems ripe for revolution – if someone has the guts and ingenuity to really go for it.
(10) "Kodak thanks these industry leaders for their support and ingenuity in finding a way to extend the life of film."
(11) The ingenuity and imagination of health care providers trying to find ways to continue providing high-quality and safe care to patients are being tested daily.
(12) The predilection of such lesions to rupture, with resultant hemorrhage, thrombosis, and distal ischemia, has led to constant attempts at surgical management, including ligation and incision, wrapping, wiring, plasticizing, packing, obliterative and reconstructive endoaneurysmorrhaphy, and a wide variety of procedures both ingenious and ingenuous.
(13) He called his pressure group founded to rid society of the evil of cake 'FUCKD and BOMBD' he described the effects of cake in lurid, pantomime terms that wouldn't have convinced a 14-year-old ingenue.
(14) Steven Gaydos, executive editor of Variety magazine, suggests that, “like Aniston, part of her appeal is her girl-next-door quality, and both … have transitioned from ingenues to mature actresses known for bold artistic choices and broad popular appeal”.
(15) Imaginary United-supporting-me silently approved Sir Alex's ingenuity.
(16) It can take all of a parent's ingenuity to get though a shopping trip without unwillingly picking up a tin of Barbie spaghetti shapes, a box of cereal with Lightning McQueen smirking from the front, or a bag of fruit chews with a catchy jingle.
(17) The common thread running through all of them is that they depend on the ingenuity and time of the local people, and require nothing external.
(18) There is no substitute for the use of intelligence and common sense both in the drawing up and interpretation of a disaster plan; for compromise in dealing with other rescue services; for ingenuity in filling the gaps in the equipment with which you find yourself provided; and, finally, perhaps most important, for self-discipline.
(19) In the next century we will see a serious test of whether or not mankind has lost its ability to foresee and forestall the side effects of scientific and technological ingenuity.
(20) In view of the significance placed upon facial beauty in today's society, it becomes incumbent upon us to recognize the ingenuity and skill of those in the past to gain appreciation for the present state of the art and to provide incentive for improving facial and ocular prosthetic restorations in the future.