Like Winston Churchill, Reynaud was a maverick in his party and often alone in his calls for rearmament and resistance to German aggrandizement.

: Like Churchill, but unlike Trevelyan, Bryant inflated patrician history so much that he destroyed it.

" Like his patron, Churchill, Tudor gave police posts to his military friends and colleagues: Brigadier-General Ormonde Winter, for example, became Deputy Police Adviser and Head of Intelligence ; " He had once been my Captain in a battery at Rawalpindi ," said Tudor, " and we had done a lot of racing together at various meetings in India.

Like Napoleon, he was the worst of losers.

Like his volume on Wycliffe, the work was accompanied by the publication of a selected group of documents, in this case illustrative of the history of Queen Anne's reign down to 1707.

Like all Russians he was an emotional man, and in him the emotions warred.

Like the bell at Mass, the doorbell was pitched too high.

Like a particle drawn to a magnet he returned to that which was pressing so hard in his mind.

Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.

Like many others, he had to work hard, long hours in a struggling family business which, though it was allied to art of a kind -- the design and production of engraved seals -- bore no relation to the painting of pictures.

Like a wise gardener, Hardy pruned away the Shakespearian sonnets and songs, and the elements of meter and poetic diction to which his personal style was not suited, and let the main stock of his talent flourish.

Like many regular army officers from the South he was opposed to secession, but resigned his commission soon after he heard of the secession of his adopted state Texas.

Like Achilles in a later generation, he was trained by the centaur Chiron.

Like Emerson, Alcott was always optimistic, idealistic, and individualistic in thinking.

Like the historical Absalom, Absalom Kumalo was at odds with his father, the two fighting a moral and ethical battle of sorts over the course of some of the novel's most important events.

Like his father, Alboin was raised a pagan, although Audoin had at one point attempted to gain Byzantine support against his neighbours by professing himself a Catholic.

Like other children of the rich Meccan merchant families, Abu Bakr was literate and developed a fondness for poetry.

Like many ancient historians, Ammianus had a strong political and religious agenda to pursue, however, and he contrasted Constantius II with Julian to the former's constant disadvantage ; like all ancient writers he was skilled in rhetoric, and this shows in his work.

" Like his brother Baldwin III, he was more of an academic than a warrior, who studied law and languages in his leisure time: " He was well skilled in the customary law by which the kingdom was governed – in fact, he was second to no one in this respect.

Like his mother, neither he nor Christine sought a divorce for the next thirty years and it was only in 1997 that they formally divorced ; Ayckbourn married Heather Stoney.

Like the BBC Micro, the Electron was constrained by limited memory resources.

Like the previous, this Aeolus was said to have had had twelve children-six sons and six daughters.

In 2010, the Australian a cappella Quartet The Idea of North was nominated for an ARIA for their seventh studio album, " Feels Like Spring ", bringing a cappella music back into pop culture.

Like all early Germanic rulers, he was heavily involved in ecclesiastical disputes ; in 895, at the Diet of Tribur, he presided over a dispute between the Episcopal sees of Bremen, Hamburg and Cologne over jurisdictional authority, which saw Bremen and Hamburg remain a combined see, independent of the see of Cologne.

Like the Renault 4, the Dyane was designed from the outset as a hatchback with some other styling differences, such as conventional round headlamps set into the front fender with a squared stainless steel trim ring – as opposed to the old-fashioned separate units found on the 2CV – and stainless steel wheel embellishments as standard.

Like Dave he was old-fashioned, straight-talking and fond of a beer.

Like Green, Trevelyan aimed to write a history not of `` English kings or English conquests '', but of the English people.

Like most dialects of English it is distinguished primarily by its vowel phonology.

Like the previous plan by Sensi, this new stadium is to be modeled after English stadiums.

Like all international auxiliary languages ( or IALs ), Basic English may be criticised as unavoidably based on personal preferences, and thus, paradoxically, inherently divisive.

Like he had with montages of landscapes and indigenous art, Marker created a film essay that contrasts and juxtaposes a variety of lives with his signature commentary ( spoken by Marker's friends, singer-actor Yves Montand in the French version and Simone Signoret in the English version ).

The name Cuāuhtemōc ( Nahuatl pronunciation: ) means " One That Has Descended Like an Eagle ", commonly rendered in English as " Descending Eagle " as in the moment when an eagle folds its wings and plummets down to strike its prey, so this is a name that implies aggressiveness and determination.

Like many other alphabetic orthographies, English spelling does not represent non-contrastive phonetic sounds ( that is, minor differences in pronunciation which are not used to distinguish between different words ).

Like journey, the distance that could be travelled in a day, the title ' journeyman ' derives from the French words for ' day ' ( jour and journée ) from which came the middle English word journei.

Like the English word messiah, mashiach means anointed.

One of the most prominent examples of a metaphor in English literature is the All the world's a stage monologue from As You Like It:

Like the radio services of the NBC, the television service tries to cater to all the linguistic audiences in Namibia, although the dominant language is English ( Namibia's official language )

Like the English poll tax, the French capitation tax was assessed on rank – for taxation persons, French society was divided in twenty-two " classes ", with the Dauphin ( a class by himself ) paying 2, 000 livres, princes of the blood paying 1500 livres, and so on down to the lowest class, composed of day laborers and servants, who paid 1 livre each.

Like most of the Plantagenet kings before the 14th century, he had no need to learn the English language.

Like troth, it is a-th nominalisation of the adjective true ( Old English tréowe ).

Like many other areas of American law, the Fourth Amendment finds its roots in English legal doctrine.

Like the English and Irish country houses it was modeled on, the White House was, from the start, open to the public until the early part of the 20th century.

In August 2009, some of the lyrics for " A Boy Like That " (" Un Hombre Asi ") and " I Feel Pretty " (" Me Siento Hermosa "), which were previously sung in Spanish in the revival, were changed back to the original English.

Like their English and Welsh counterparts, then, the parks in Scotland are effectively " managed landscapes ", and are classified as IUCN Category V Protected Landscapes because of this.

Like Elizabeth, the Electress's rights are denied her by a jealous sister Anne, and she will never be sure of the English crown until her accession to the throne.

Like right, the English words rule and ruler, deriving still from the same root, have both normative or regulatory and geometric meanings ( e. g. a ruler as in a king, or a ruler as in a straightedge ).

Like the French, trade with the natives was an important part of English and British colonial policy, but they also heavily promoted settlement and development.

Like English, German uses ( German-style ) quotation marks between the first and last names ( e. g., Andreas Nikolaus „ Niki “ Lauda ).

Singles were released in various territories for three of the album's songs, " If You Were Here ", " Things She Said " and " 747 " ( featuring the English version of " Kräm ", entitled " What It Feels Like ").