Like the atomists ( Leucippus and Democritus ) before him, Strato of Lampsacus was a materialist and believed that everything in the universe was composed of matter and energy.

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 Toscanini, Monteux insisted on the traditional orchestral layout with first and second violins to the conductor's left and right, believing that this gave a better representation of string detail than grouping all the violins together on the left.

Dio è carita, p. 41 ) Like Christ, he gave his execution a redemptive significance, believing as he did that his death " was uniting his beloved God and His community of Muslims against himself and thereby bore witness in extremis to the tawhid ( the oneness ) of both.

Like Austin, Sam had been accepted to Princeton, only to be duped by Fiona believing she was rejected.

Like Rigsby, Miss Jones has pretensions, believing herself to be better than the life she leads and to be reasonably sophisticated.

Like Duchenne, Charcot sought to chart the gestures and expressions of his patients, believing them to be subject to absolute, mechanistic laws.

Like his mentor Parker, Gates publicly questioned the effectiveness of working with non-white community leaders believing most of them to be little more than racketeers.

Like Miguel Serrano, he was heavily influenced by the writings of Savitri Devi and is an advocate of esoteric Hitlerism, believing Hitler to have been a god-like being sent to rescue humanity-specifically the European peoples-from extinction.

Like them, however, he at first does not believe eventual love interest Stephanie Speck's claim that Johnny Five is sentient, instead believing the wayward robot to be malfunctioning.

Like many in the 1930s, the PPU supported appeasement, believing that Nazi Germany would cease its aggression if the territorial provisions of the Versailles Treaty were undone.

Like his Imperial Japanese Army counterpart, Col. Yasue Norihiro, he held to an anti-Semitic ideology, believing strongly in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion ; but these beliefs led him to think that attracting Jews to settle in Japanese-controlled Asia was in the Empire of Japan's best interests.

Like in " Prowler ," the moral lessons of Knox are not easily discerned upon first reading, and the uninitiated reader could leave their first exposure to either story believing that Ellison is a glorifier of wantonly destructive and malicious violence.

Like Origen, he started from the fundamental thought of the absolute sovereignty ( monarchia ) of God.

* John Locke: Like Hobbes, described a social contract theory based on citizens ' fundamental rights in the state of nature.

Like Podkayne, I Will Fear No Evil ends by moralizing about the fundamental purpose of human life, which is to take care of children, and in both novels the moral has no clear relationship to the main events of the story.

Like all schools of Tibetan Buddhism, the Kagyu consider their practices and teachings inclusive of the full range of Buddha's teachings ( or three yāna ), since they follow the fundamental teachings and vows of individual liberation and monastic discipline ( Pratimoksha ).

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

Like the fourth section, it can be seen as an addition to the first three fundamental sections.

Like the fundamental group or the higher homotopy groups of a space, homology groups are important topological invariants.

Like every latch, the fundamental collector-base coupled bistable circuit possesses a hysteresis.

Like other statistical modeling approaches, IRT emphasizes the primacy of the fit of a model to observed data, while the Rasch model emphasizes the primacy of the requirements for fundamental measurement, with adequate data-model fit being an important but secondary requirement to be met before a test or research instrument can be claimed to measure a trait.

Like most of these designations, a fundamental tenet of a DO label is that no product outside of that region is permitted to bear the name.

Like all special orthogonal groups of n > 2, SO ( 8 ) is not simply connected, having a fundamental group isomorphic to Z < sub > 2 </ sub >.

Like Might and Magic VII, the game includes a system of choices which affect fundamental aspects of gameplay.

" Like many professional organizations, AAJ also engages in lobbying on matters of concern to its members and their clients: " AAJ supports the civil justice system as a fundamental check on the power of businesses and governments and opposes efforts to limit the legal rights of citizens.