Like the earlier catalogs of Hipparchus and Ptolemy, Ulugh Beg's catalogue is estimated to have been precise to within approximately 20 minutes of arc.

Like the earlier models, the 1200 used a 4-bit math unit while the 800 used the SuperNOVA ’ s 16-bit unit.

Like Britain earlier, Spain left behind a plaque proclaiming her sovereignty.

Like its contemporary simpler cousin, the 80186, it could correctly execute most software written for the earlier Intel 8086 and 8088.

Like his earlier raids, Raynald's expedition is usually seen as selfish and ultimately fatal for Jerusalem, but according to Bernard Hamilton it was actually shrewd strategy, meant to damage Saladin's prestige and reputation.

Like Dr. Schrader, an earlier investigator of organophosphates, Dr. Ghosh found that they were quite effective pesticides.

Like those earlier modes, packet was intended as a way to reliably transmit written information.

Like most modern programming languages and unlike earlier Lisps such as Maclisp or Emacs Lisp, Scheme is lexically scoped: all possible variable bindings in a program unit can be analyzed by reading the text of the program unit without consideration of the contexts in which it may be called.

Like Ain't Love Grand, the album's sound was fairly far removed from the band's punk origins, yet featured a punchy, energetic, hard-rocking roots rock sound that in many ways represented a more natural progression from their earlier sound than the previous record had.

Like Calderón de la Barca's earlier El golfo de las sirenas ( The Sirens ' Gulf, 1657 ), El Laurel de Apolo mixed mythological verse drama with operatic solos, popular songs and dances.

Like the earlier attempts at bands, The Waterfront fizzled out, but in late 1983 Couzens decided to try again at starting a band, and approached Brown.

Like the earlier Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty ( along with Turkic allies ) conquered and subdued Central Asia during the 640s and 650s.

Like earlier heavy spacecraft, they were launched by Proton-K rockets.

Like the earlier masks of Commedia dell ’ Arte, Pierrot now knew no national boundaries.

Like the character William Wallace, which Gibson portrayed in Braveheart five years earlier, Benjamin Martin is a man seeking to live his life in peace until revenge drives him to lead a cause against a national enemy after the life of an innocent family member is taken.

Like earlier artists, they portrayed the colorful New Mexican landscape and cultural influences, such as the " timelessness they perceived in Puebloan culture and the deep connection to the land they noted in the everyday life of both Native Americans and Hispanics influence experimentation and innovation in their own art.

Like most of his works, it originally appeared in serial form a year earlier.

Like the cowboy or gunfighter of the Western, the knight errant of the earlier European tales and poetry was wandering from place to place on his horse, fighting villains of various kinds and bound to no fixed social structures but only to his own innate code of honor.

Like most of Banks ' early SF work, it was a reworking of an earlier version, in this case from 1979.

Like much Roman comedy, it is probably translated from an earlier Greek original, most commonly held to be Philemon's Long Night, or Rhinthon's Amphitryon, both now lost.

In 1991, they released Hard at Play on the EMI label, which went back to the R & B / rock sound of their earlier albums, and released the hit singles, " Couple Days Off " ( No. 11 ) and " It Hit Me Like a Hammer " ( No. 21 ).

Like mitochondrial " Eve ", Y-chromosomal " Adam " probably lived in Africa ; however, this " Eve " lived much earlier than this " Adam " – perhaps some 50, 000 to 80, 000 years earlier.

Like earlier Music70 releases, it was produced in a self-financed limited run and was privately distributed, primarily to friends and labels.

Like its other shows, it used stock footage heavily ; in one episode, character designs and animation sequences were recycled from the Groovie Goolies series of nearly 15 years earlier.

Like the peptidoglycan found in bacterial cell walls, pseudopeptidoglycan consists of polymer chains of glycan cross-linked by short peptide connections.

Like canids, hyenas have short, blunt, non-retractable claws.

He also appeared with Joan Blondell and Ruth Etting in a Vitaphone short, Broadway's Like That ( 1930 ) which was re-discovered in 1963.

Like most salamanders, they have short legs with four toes on the front legs and five on their back appendages, and their tails are keeled to propel them through water.

Like many large dog breeds, Irish Wolfhounds have a relatively short lifespan.

Like most other Proteaceae, P. cynaroides has proteoid roots, roots with dense clusters of short lateral rootlets that form a mat in the soil just below the leaf litter.

It became a kind of new pop formula and, within a short while, " Smells Like Teen Spirit " was charging up the charts and even the members of Nirvana said later that it sounded for all the world like a Pixies song.

Like the novel, the short story tradition has been defined and shaped through the markets available for publication, and thus, the form can be practically traced through the submission guidelines of publishing houses, print and online media that have solicited them.

* In " Hills Like White Elephants ", a short story by Ernest Hemingway, an unborn child is viewed as a white elephant.

Like many other members of the genus Bacillus, Bacillus anthracis can form dormant endospores ( often referred to as " spores " for short, but not to be confused with fungal spores ) that are able to survive in harsh conditions for decades or even centuries.

His cautionary fables include " The Beautiful People " ( 1952 ), a futuristic short story about a rebellious adolescent girl who lives in a largely conformist society in which people obligatorily alter their physical appearance ( adapted as an episode of The Twilight Zone: " Number 12 Looks Just Like You "), and " Free Dirt " ( 1955 ), about a frugally gluttonous man who gorges on his entire vegetable harvest, but instead dies from having consumed the magical soil he used to grow it.

Like sparrows, the estrildid finches are small, gregarious and often colonial seed-eaters with short, thick, but pointed bills.

* Mighty Like a Moose ( 1926 short )

Like Supergirl, Mary Marvel was a teen-age female version of an adult male superhero, wearing a costume that was identical to the older character's other than substituting a short skirt for tight trousers.

He wrote about this world in novels and short stories, including Times Like These ( 1936 ) which explores the life of a working-class family during the 1926 miners ' strike.

Like Persian cats, the Himalayan cat tends to have a round ( cobby ) body with short legs, which makes it harder for them to jump as high as other cats do.

In the 1978 animated short " Face Like a Frog ", by Sally Cruikshank, the band's song " Don't Go in the Basement " is credited to The Mystic Knights.

Like most genital piercings, these piercings have relatively short healing times, due to the amount of blood flow to the area.

Like other similar projectiles made from plastic, wax, and wood, rubber bullets may be used for short range practice and animal control, but are most commonly associated with use in riot control and to disperse protests.

Pebble in the Sky was also included in a number of omnibuses: first in 1952 in Triangle along with the others in the Empire series ( The Stars, Like Dust and The Currents of Space which had only been published earlier that year ), in 1978 in The Far Ends of Time and Earth along with The End of Eternity and the short story collection Earth Is Room Enough, and again with the Empire series novels in 2002 as The Empire Novels.

Like Zhuang, Zhong may also be the short form of Buzhuang, which Zhuang people use to refer to themselves, as the pronunciation of Zhong and Zhuang is similar, and Zhong was once a variant form of Zhuang in the Han Chinese historical books.

Like all grebes, the Red-necked is an expert swimmer ; it uses its feet for propulsion underwater, and steers by rotating its legs, since its tail is too short for this purpose.

Like the unrelated swifts and nightjars, which hunt in a similar way, they have short bills, but strong jaws and a wide gape.

Like all assembly languages, it uses short mnemonics to represent the fundamental instructions that the CPU in a computer can understand and follow.

Like all members of the family they are slender, short necked birds with long tails, long slender legs with elongated ( in some cases very elongated ) hind claws.