(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.
Piracy
Definition:
(n.) The act or crime of a pirate.
(n.) Robbery on the high seas; the taking of property from others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal; -- a crime answering to robbery on land.
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Example Sentences:
(1) The anti-piracy measures will be introduced across Google's main online search service, but not its subsidiary YouTube.
(2) Mandelson, who today unveiled plans to introduce measures including suspending the internet connections of illegal downloaders , argued that while less draconian than the French plan, the UK's approach would be tough enough to tackle online piracy.
(3) "They had taken some Iranian and Pakistani hostages so we had to separate them from the pirate suspects," said Lieutenant Commander Claus Krum, a veteran of five piracy missions.
(4) In 2014 News Corp complained to European Union that Google was a “platform for piracy”.
(5) Cox said: "These findings are important from a policy perspective, because they suggest campaigns that emphasise the harmful effects on the movie industry of piracy are much more likely to be effective than similar campaigns focusing on the music industry."
(6) The piracy charges have been broadly derided as having little basis in Russian law, partly as it is fairly clear to all involved that Greenpeace's intentions were never to steal or seize property from the Prirazlomnaya rig.
(7) This is an edited extract of a letter sent home last week by Alexandra Harris, one of the six Britons held on piracy charges in Russia following a Greenpeace protest against oil drilling in the Arctic.
(8) Google has done more than almost any other company to help tackle online piracy,” Rachel Whetstone, the former adviser to Conservative leader Michael Howard who is now Google’s senior vice president global communications, responded.
(9) The letter and the consensus reached by FAC come just days ahead of the closing of the government's consultation on how to tackle online piracy, which was sparked by June's publication of the Digital Britain report.
(10) How is an aspiring monkey photographer supposed to make it if she can’t stop the rampant internet piracy of monkey works?
(11) At the last Consumer Electronic Show, the British market intelligence firm Envisional presented its remarkable State of Digital Piracy Study ( PDF here ).
(12) In 2010 El Paid published WikiLeaks cables that showed the US government has consistently pushed for Spain to tighten up its online piracy legislation and threatened to put the country on its 301 watch list.
(13) "Google is committed to tackling piracy and our action is industry leading," he said.
(14) This was never set up with the intent to be some kind of piracy haven.
(15) Music industry bodies the IFPI and RIAA have renewed their attacks on Google, accusing the company of breaking its promise to downgrade piracy sites in its search rankings.
(16) Spacey said it would help the battle against piracy by releasing films in cinemas and on-demand simultaneously – a trend that has already begun with films such as Spacey's Margin Call and more recent releases such as Julianne Moore film What Maisie Knew.
(17) Google said it has already invested heavily in more advanced anti-piracy measures for YouTube.
(18) It has charged eight people ‑ four Estonians, two Russians and two Latvians ‑ with hijacking and piracy.
(19) Russia has charged eight people, mostly Estonians, with kidnapping and piracy.
(20) The Pay For Your Porn campaign, backed by publishers Adult Empire, argues that piracy is hurting the industry, and that porn fans need to take responsibility for that if they want the industry to remain sustainable.