The groups model their discussions from the book of the same name by Christopher Phillips.

His defense is that the group of youths so modeled themselves on the Mafia that they believed the only way out of the group was prison or death.

Schapper and Willich formed their own group, the Communist Central Committee, modelled on the conspiratorial Blanquist organisations they knew from the 1830s.

Parent Action, which was envisioned as a special-interest group modeled after the American Association of Retired Persons, was beset from the start by organizational and financial problems.

The conservancy, a nonprofit group modeled after the Central Park Conservancy, was founded in 1994 to streamline overlapping city, state and federal efforts to plan for the site.

In the early 1900s a group of cadets modeled a senior society based on Yale University's Skull and Bones.

An earlier Canadian group modeled after Spain's Take the Square has a three point platform:

In 2008, Sotomayor became a member of the Belizean Grove, an invitation-only women's group modeled after the men's Bohemian Grove.

In 2010, the group modeled for such companies as Mentholatum Korea, Tedin Water Parks, and Olympus cameras.

The $550,000 restoration is the first big project of the Prospect Park Alliance, a private group modeled after the Central Park Conservancy.