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Like Major League Baseball, all NFL teams still played in the Northeast and Midwest, but the AAFC seized the opportunity to place teams in open cities in Florida and California.
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Like and Major
* Major George Ashley Wilkes: The gallant Ashley married his cousin, Melanie, because " Like must marry like or there'll be no happiness.
Like most postwar former prime ministers, Major turned down a peerage when he retired from the House of Commons in 2001.
Like John Major and the Foreign Secretary, Douglas Hurd, Rifkind was opposed to military intervention by Britain and the international community as combatants in that conflict.
Major supporting roles in the comedy Legally Blonde and the romantic comedy A Lot Like Love led her to lead roles as the titular character in Marigold and in the 2009 thriller Obsessed.
Like Messier 54 ( the other extragalactic globular on Messier's list ), it is thought that M79 is not native to the Milky Way galaxy at all, but instead to the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy which is currently experiencing a very close encounter with the Milky Way — one it is unlikely to survive intact.
Like many black barnstormers of the time, Donaldson faced white Major Leaguers and fared well enough to prompt New York Giants manager John McGraw to say, " I think he is the greatest I have ever seen.
Like the appointment of Drum Major, the position of Pipe Major is derived from British Army traditions.
* Grand Slam: Like the Grand Slam in golf or the Triple Crown in American thoroughbred racing, the Grand Slam means winning all four Major tournaments in a calendar year.
Like Oshii's films, the series suggests romantic tension between the Major and Batou.
Like their British counterparts, the Royal Australian Corps of Signals ' flag and hat badge feature Mercury, the winged messenger of the gods, affectionately referred to by members of the corps as " Jimmy " ( the origin dates back to the merge with Engineers when the Engineer's band's Drum Major had a " Jimmy " on his staff ).
Like many others, Ullrich found himself out of the Major Leagues.
Like and League
Like the city-states of Italy and the Hanseatic League, both were important trading centres, with a large merchant class prospering from the trade with the New World.
Like the Bears, both moved to the Can-Am League.
Like The Human League, Heaven 17 heavily used synthesisers and drum machines ( the Linn LM-1 programmed by Ware ).
Like the Los Angeles Wildcats of the first American Football League, the team never actually played a league game in Los Angeles.
Like the rest of the family, he also supported his cousin Frederick I Barbarossa in their wars against the independent city communes of the Lombard League.
* Minor League Free Agency – Like major leaguers, minor league players also enjoy free agency.
Like his history of the League of Cambray, it was highly praised by Voltaire.
Like many Swedish Social Democratic politicians of his generation, Ringholm started his political career in the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League, an organisation he led 1967 – 1972.
Like the other Ivy League universities, Harvard does not offer athletic scholarships.
Like his famous father, Tennyson was an ardent imperialist, and in 1883 he had become a council member of the Imperial Federation League, a lobby group set up to support the imperialist ideas of the Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain.
Like all major rivalries, the antipathy between Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique de Marseille extends outside the pitch as Paris and Marseille are the two largest cities in France, while the duo are the most successful and influential football clubs in the country having won eleven Ligue 1 titles, eighteen French Cups, six League Cups and five Champions Trophy.
Like all League of Nations Mandates, this mandate derived from article 22 of the League of Nations Covenant, which called for the self-determination of former Ottoman Empire colonies after a transitory period administered by a world power.
Like the rest of the Justice Society, Starman spends many years in retirement following the end of the Golden Age of heroes, but returns to help mentor the team's spiritual successors the Justice League of America.
Like many tournaments of the National Forensic League, District Tournaments are annual tournaments.
Like the American game, the Canadian Football League and Canadian Interuniversity Sport both have their own rulebooks for the game, although there are generally fewer differences than between their American counterparts.
Like many of the party's initial members, Hardie had previously been involved in the Scottish Land Restoration League.
Like comparable entities such as the Canadian Hockey League ( CHL )' s three member leagues, the USHL offers a schedule of high-level, competitive games for top players aged 16 to 20.
) Like the Arena Football League, all of these operations contemplated their playing season as being entirely or primarily outside the traditional fall / early winter season of the older sport so as not to be competing with it directly for fan support.
Like other WLAF / NFL Europe teams, most of the Monarchs ' players were young American " developmental " players assigned from teams in the National Football League.
Like the original Senators, success was quick, winning the Eastern League championship in its very first season.
Like most Minor League Baseball teams, the Missions use on-field emcees to execute their promotions.
He has drummed in several influential bands including Justice League, No For An Answer, Chain Of Strength, Inside Out, Statue, Drive Like Jehu and Wool.
Like the Arena Football League, the WIFL was to use rebound nets ( the AFL's patent on them had not yet taken effect ), but only to prevent losing balls: any ball that made contact with the nets would be declared dead, similar to a rule instituted by the National Hockey League over a decade later.
Like and Baseball
* Baseball Hall of Fame: Gordon Combined Skills Like Few Others
Like all recent EA Sports games, the soundtrack to each MVP Baseball title contains licensed songs, called EA Trax.
Like the Cape Cod Baseball League and other amateur leagues, the NECBL is a showcase for top college-level players, giving professional baseball scouts a chance to see prospective pros playing against each other.
Like and all
`` Like enough we'll all be up on top by sundown ''.
Like all Russians he was an emotional man, and in him the emotions warred.
Like Herbert, they were all in communications: radio, television, magazines, and advertising.
Like Mattie and the mayor up there gripping the microphone and Toonker Burkette back in his office yanking out teeth, like they all knew he would.
Like most primitive, but unlike all previously recognized hominins, it had a grasping or big toe adapted for locomotion in the trees.
Like all traits, there is variability in the intensity of fears of spiders, and those with more intense fears are classified as phobic.
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 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 all subarctic regions, the months from May to July in the summer have no night, only a twilight during the night hours.
Like all actinides, berkelium dissolves in various aqueous inorganic acids, liberating gaseous hydrogen and converting into the berkelium ( III ) state.
Like Pompey he was protected by the river on his left allowing him to position all his cavalry to the right as a counter.
Like so many others, Étienne was eventually forced to flee Paris because of his opposition to the fiscal policies of Cardinal Richelieu, leaving his three children in the care of his neighbor Madame Sainctot, a great beauty with an infamous past who kept one of the most glittering and intellectual salons in all France.
Like other members of the genus, all three are aerobes capable of producing endospores.
Like all other horns of antelopes, the core of a bongo's horn is hollow and the outer layer of the horn is made of keratin, the same material that makes up human fingernails, toenails and hair.
Like all Unix shells, it supports filename wildcarding, piping, here documents, command substitution, variables and control structures for condition-testing and iteration .< ref >
Like all international auxiliary languages ( or IALs ), Basic English may be criticised as unavoidably based on personal preferences, and thus, paradoxically, inherently divisive.
Like all other lemurs, cheirogaleids live exclusively on the island of Madagascar.
Like all strepsirrhines they have fine claws at the second toe of the hind legs.
Like all Central American countries, Costa Rica is considered part of a biodiversity hotspot.
Like all state routes outside major cities, they are only two-lane arterials and do not support heavy traffic.
Like Shangdi, Heaven ( tian ) ruled over all the other gods, and it decided who would rule China.
Like all metal cations, Cs < sup >+</ sup > forms complexes with Lewis bases in solution.
Like all stable distributions, the location-scale family to which the Cauchy distribution belongs is closed under linear transformations with real coefficients.
Like all armoured insects, beetles ' exoskeletons comprise numerous plates called sclerites, some fused, some separated by thin sutures.
Like the trumpet and all other modern brass wind instruments, the cornet makes a sound when the player vibrates (" buzzes ") the lips in the mouthpiece, creating a vibrating column of air in the tubing.
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