Like his friend and colleague Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Bianchi studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa under Enrico Betti, a leading differential geometer who is today best remembered for his seminal contributions to topology, and Ulisse Dini, a leading expert on function theory.

Like Cole Porter at Yale and Richard Rodgers at Columbia, his career in musical theater began with his collegiate contributions, in Lerner's case to the annual Harvard Hasty Pudding musicals.

Like many other Christian writers, he also claims that heresy began with Simon Magus, a figure whom receives mention in Acts 8: 9-13 for being a magician from the city of Samaria.

Like most of Central America, Honduras in the 1990s began to woo foreign investors, mostly Asian clothing assembly firms, and it held high hopes for revenue to be generated by privatizing national industries.

Like many other male genital piercings, it has a history of practice in gay culture in the twentieth century and became known outside that culture at the same time that body piercing began to emerge in popular culture in the late 1970s.

Like most industrialized economies, Korea suffered significant setbacks during the late-2000s recession that began in 2007.

Edward J. Larson, a historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, notes: " Like so many archetypal American events, the trial itself began as a publicity stunt.

Like his mother, Borge began piano lessons at the age of two, and it was soon apparent that he was a prodigy.

By the early 1940s, the British film industry began to combine documentary techniques with fictional stories in films like Noël Coward's In Which We Serve ( 1942 ), Millions Like Us ( 1943 ) and The Way Ahead ( 1944 ).

Like Dickens, he began with a disclaimer: Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage.

Like many other Roman towns however, Winchester began to decline in the later fourth century.

Like the western genre, the spy-movies and urban-action films were starting to parody themselves, and with the growing revolution in CGI ( computer generated imagery ), the " real-world " settings began to give way to increasingly fantastic environments.

Like Wandervogel, the hippie movement in the United States began as a youth movement.

Like many long-running UK comic strips, The Bash Street Kids is anachronistically frozen in the era in which it began.

Like its Chalcolithic neighbor Uruk, Susa began as a discrete settlement in the Susa I period ( c 4000 BCE ).

Like many such trademarks, the clattering closet began as a one-time stunt, but " the closet " was developed carefully, not being overused ( it rarely appeared in more than two consecutive installments, though it never disappeared for the same length, either, at the height of its identification, and it rarely collapsed at exactly the same time from show to show ), and it became the best-known running sound gag in American radio's classic period.

Like Fichte and Jahn, Arndt began to define a German nation as a society of homogeneous descent, drawing on the history of the Germanic peoples and the " teutonic " Middle Ages.

Like most other Disney-owned cable channels, starting in 2008, Toon Disney began airing in High-Definition ( the only ones which didn't were ESPN Classic & SOAPnet ).

The controversy surrounding her marketing of sexuality began with the video for " Lucky Star ", and amplified over time due to clips such as " Like a Virgin ".

In late 2004, Witherspoon began working alongside Mark Ruffalo on the romantic comedy Just Like Heaven.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

Like most immigrants, he began modestly.

Like many other indigenous peoples in North America, it is thought as many as 90 % of the local population were killed by smallpox, malaria, influenza or other European diseases even before the area began to feel the presence of significant European settlement.

Like the Confederates, he immediately began fortifying the city.

Like other nearby towns, Woodinville began as a logging community, became a farming center in the early decades of the 20th century, and developed into a suburb of Seattle after World War II.

Like the natural world that he observes he too has reached his prime and now must look forward to the inevitability of old age and death.

Like many other colors ( orange, rose, and violet are the best-known ), indigo gets its name from an object in the natural world — the plant named indigo once used for dyeing cloth ( see also Indigo dye ).

Like his philosophical forefathers, Socrates and Plato, Aristotle posited the existence of natural justice or natural right ( dikaion physikon, δικαίον φυσικόν, Latin ius naturale ).

Like other members of their order they nest in cavities, usually tunnels dug into the natural or artificial banks in the ground.

Like all logarithms, the natural logarithm maps multiplication into addition:

Like all triangular numbers, it is the sum of all natural numbers up to a certain point ; in this case: Furthermore, any even perfect number except the first one is the centered nonagonal number as well as the sum of the first odd cubes:

Like Ralph, Jack is a natural leader.

Like natural vellum, the synthetic is more dimensionally stable than a linen or paper sheet, which is frequently critical in the development of large scaled drawings and plans such as blueprints.

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.

Author Judith Levine has argued that there might be a natural tendency of abstinence educators to escalate their messages: " Like advertising, which must continually jack up its seduction just to stay visible as other advertising proliferates, abstinence education had to make sex scarier and scarier and, at the same time, chastity sweeter.

Like all rock formations, natural bridges are subject to continued erosion, and will eventually collapse and disappear.

Like other strict finitists, ultrafinitists deny the existence of the infinite set N of natural numbers, on the grounds that it can never be completed.

Like his friend Henry Flood, Grattan worked on his natural eloquence and oratory skills by studying models such as Bolingbroke and Junius.

Like the black stork, the pygmy owl had long since disappeared from the Harz, but returned in the 1980s of its own volition, as its ancestral homeland once again became more natural, so that there was sufficient food to support it ( insects, small mammals and small birds ) as well as standing dead wood ( spruce trees with woodpecker holes ).

Like other natural sign languages, it was devised by and for Deaf people, with no linguistic connection to a spoken or written language, and it is fully capable of expressing anything a fluent signer wants to say.

Like all outdoor activities, rafting must balance its use of nature with the conservation of rivers as a natural resource and habitat.

Like many natural products, lanolin is complex and variable in composition.

Like contemporary Terry Southern, Meyer realized that sex — as one of the few common interests among most humans — was a natural vehicle for satirizing values and conventions held by the Greatest Generation.

Like Koyaanisqatsi, Baraka compares natural and technological phenomena.

" " Like his radical bourgeois counterparts in England, Taylor would not concede that great extremes of wealth and poverty were natural outcomes of differences in talent ; on the contrary they were invariably the result of extra-economic coercion and deceit.

Like Edmund Burke, Niebuhr endorsed natural evolution over imposed change and emphasized experience over theory.

Like the heavenly bodies in their unadorned pursuit, so the wise look, with affection, toward the star ; and hence as a role model, they inspire those who look up to them, and by whom others still, will yet find themselves enthralled, and so on, they muse … the enduring natural order of aeon, season, animal and plant.

Like Maslow's hierarchical theory and others that built on it, SDT posits a natural tendency toward growth and development.