It's ersatz, but I always try to make it strong.

A real cow, as well as chickens and geese populated that ersatz farmyard.

But mimicry s success in nature depends on the ratio of the original to the ersatz.

That is why it should not hanker after any ersatz export led or state directed growth.

So, we're all going to fold up and die, just because that ersatz superman is gone.

But this new form of ersatz capitalism, in which losses are socialized and profits privatized, is doomed to failure. Incentives are distorted.

Internet companies may, more than most, hide their true motives behind ersatz, democratic sounding slogans, but in the end they are advertising products like any other.

Moreover, India is not China it cannot be indeed, it must not be. That is why it should not hanker after any ersatz export led or state directed growth.

But mimicry s success in nature depends on the ratio of the original to the ersatz. If there are too few of the original, the profile loses its significance, and its protective value vanishes.

Medvedev s only opponents were has beens from the 1990 s like Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who long ago converted himself from proto fascist into a Kremlin loyalist, and Andrey Bogdanov, an ersatz democrat permitted to run by the Kremlin in order to dupe the West into thinking that a real contest was taking place.