Like all measures of birth control effectiveness, the Pearl Index is a calculation based on the observations of a given sample population.

Like many historical dramas, Pearl Harbor provoked debate about the artistic license taken by its producers and director.

Like most river delta systems, the Pearl River and its tributaries gradually deposited silt on the ocean floor, causing its alluvial plain to reach further and further out into the sea.

Like many young men, he tried to enlist in the Army in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor at the end of 1941.

Like other French operas of the period, Lakmé captures the ambience of the Orient seen through Western eyes, which was periodically in vogue during the latter part of the nineteenth century, in line with other operatic works such as Bizet's The Pearl Fishers and Massenet's Le roi de Lahore.

Like all the actors playing the Black Pearl crew, Depp had to shoot scenes in costume as a reference for the animators, and his shots as a skeleton were shot again without him.

Like Pearl, however, Penner was doomed to early decline by the sheer repetitiveness of his format, even though he remained very popular with children right up to the end of his radio career.

Like his colleagues, Professor Bobo ( Kevin Murphy ) and Pearl Forrester ( Mary Jo Pehl ), Brain Guy is deeply dysfunctional.

Like many others at the detention center, Pearl senses there is something different about the emotionally detached Leland, and helps him circumvent the prison rules so he can keep a journal.

Like Nomura, Kurusu maintained for the rest of his life that he had been unaware of the plans for Pearl Harbor.

lang, Joni Mitchell, Meshell Ndegeocello, Pearl Jam, Terence Trent D ' arby, Lisa Germano, Lisa Marie Presley, Liz Phair, Michael Penn, Grace Jones, Tricky, The Three O ' Clock, Uh Huh Her, Sheryl Crow, Victoria Williams, Rob Thomas, Gwen Stefani, Skye Edwards, Scritti Politti, Nerina Pallot, OK Go, Madonna, The Like, Nina Gordon, fDeluxe, The Family, Doyle Bramhall II, Nikka Costa, Andre Cymone, Kate Earl, Eric Clapton, Bettye LaVette and more and vocals on the soundtrack for Toys and their first scoring work, for Dangerous Minds.

Like several others who had opposed Roosevelt's efforts to aid Great Britain before Pearl Harbor but faced wartime elections, Gillette lost his next race, in 1944, to Iowa Governor and Republican Bourke B. Hickenlooper.

New subdivisions include Buckhorn 100 homes, Magnolia Place 58 homes, Williams Point 19, Stotts, The Summit, Eagle Harbor, Crossing Crystal Like Commons 1st gated community 28 homes ranging $ 350, 000 to $ 750, 000.

Like his predecessors, Chapman grappled with the Waukegan Harbor question.

Like the ( much longer ) team pursuit event, two teams race against each other, starting on opposite sides of the track, but at the end of the first lap, the leading rider in each team drops out of the race by riding up the banking leaving the second rider to lead for the second lap ; at the end of the second lap, the second rider does the same, leaving the third rider to complete the last lap on his own.

Like the Berlin Olympics two years later, the 1934 World Cup was a high-profile instance of a sporting event being used for overt political gain.

" Like Stalin, he never recognised the Cold War as an international event.

A sesquicentennial history of the town, Mark Scarborough's There's No Place Like Rome: Celebrating the Journey, 1857 to 2007, was published by Barking Dog Press in time to be released at the Taste of Rome event in July 2007.

The event hosts performances from local bands and musicians, but has also hosted Man Like Me.

Like the previous Woodstock festivals it was performed in upstate New York, this time in Rome, New York, around 200 miles from the site of the original event.

Like an elastic band, the more the rocks are strained the more elastic energy is stored and the greater potential for an event.

Like the Challenge Cup before it, Rendez-Vous ' 87 was an event where the best the NHL could offer played against a Soviet squad which had an entire year to prepare.

Like the dinosaurs, the ichthyosaurs and their contemporaries the plesiosaurs survived the end-Triassic extinction event, and immediately diversified to fill the vacant ecological niches of the earliest Jurassic.

Like its immediate predecessor, the show was a single-night live event at London's Royal Albert Hall.

Like all games in which the element of chance found a place, it was regarded as more or less ominous of the future success of the players, especially in matters of love – and the excitement was sometimes further augmented by some object of value being staked on the event.

Like the first generation, the 2008 edition of the Used Car Safety Ratings ( UCSR ) by Monash University in Australia found the second series Festiva to provide a " worse than average " ( two out of five stars ) safety protection level in the event of an accident.

" For the thesis of philosophical determinism, that ' Like effects have like causes ' or that ' Every event has a cause ' is so vague that it is perfectly compatible with physical indeterminism.

Like Duet Acting, Oratorical is not a National Forensic League-sanctioned event.

Like many in her family, Michelle went mad, in this case after descending into a cycle of melancholy prompted by the murder of her father-in-law John the Fearless in 1419, the very event that elevated her to the rank of Duchess of Burgundy.

Like all Allied forces who operated behind Nazi lines, the Jedburghs were subject to torture and execution in the event of capture, under Hitler's notorious Commando Order.

Like the fire of Hamburg in 1842 ( which led to the foundation of the first professional reinsurers in Germany, ), the great fire of Glarus in 1861 showed that insurance coverage was totally inadequate in Switzerland in the event of such a catastrophe.

Like all non-avian dinosaurs, the sauropodomorphs became extinct 65 Mya, during the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event.

Like musth, it is a periodic event characterized by irritability, pain and uncontrollable aggression, and is linked to the hormonal cycle.

Like his father, Chip also became an Olympic gold medalist, running as a reserve on the U. S. 4 x 400 m relay team at the 1992 Summer Olympics making it the first time in history that a father and a son won gold medals in the same event.

Like with other versions of Carnival, the event is held for several days before Ash Wednesday but reaches its peak the night before on Tuesday.

Like a rally event, the race cars were started one by one every two minutes for a time trial, as a start from a full grid was not possible on the tight and twisty roads.

Like the Royal Rumble, the World War 3 match was held at the event that shared its name.

Like all secret organizations, they must keep their work secret, thus anyone who comes too close to their missions, i. e. seeing a monster, will have their memories of the event erased.

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 the Yankees' slugger, Mays, the terror of the Giants, has had seasons that would be considered the ultimate by most players, but not by -- or for -- Willie.

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 the central processing unit ( CPU ) in a modern computer, the mill would rely upon its own internal procedures, to be stored in the form of pegs inserted into rotating drums called " barrels ", to carry out some of the more complex instructions the user's program might specify.

Like Shangdi, Heaven ( tian ) ruled over all the other gods, and it decided who would rule China.

Like Castro, Khrushchev felt that a US invasion of Cuba was imminent, and that to lose Cuba would do great harm to the communist cause, especially in Latin America.

Most episodes in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s rated with over 20 million viewers and during the 1990s and early 2000s 15 – 20 million per episode would be typical Like most terrestrial television in the UK, a dramatic decline in viewership has taken place and the show currently posts figures of between 8 and 14 million per episode.

Like Western states of previous centuries, the new ex-colonies lacked autonomous bureaucracies, which would make decisions based on the benefit to society as a whole, rather than respond to corruption and nepotism to favor a particular interest group.

Like the PDP-1 before it, the PDP-5 inspired a series of newer models based on the same basic design that would go on to be more famous than its parent.

Like other ' hardboiled ' writers, Macdonald aimed to give an impression of realism in his work through violence, sex and confrontation ; this is illusory, however, and any real private eye undergoing a typical fictional investigation would soon be dead or incapacitated.

Like the revolution, it would need to rewrite the social compact and redefine the relationship among the states, the national government, and the people.

Like " Jennie Lee ", " Gas Money " contained a few elements of what would later become surf music.

Like Hitler, Ribbentrop was determined that in the next crisis, Germany would not have its professed demands met in another Munich-type summit, and that the next crisis to be caused by Germany would result in the war that Chamberlain had " cheated " the Germans out of at Munich.

She commented on the disease: " Like many women, I assumed heart disease was a man's disease and cancer was what we would fear the most.

Like other works of his and other Mannerists it removes far more of the original block than Michelangelo would have done.

Like Congalach, Clann Ruadrí may have had a claim to the kingship in the female line which legal tradition would have considered to be of little importance.

A proper response to the foresaid question would be Like a knife.

Like all propaganda the importance of the film is not the battle itself but the outstanding characteristics of such individuals who would commit such acts of patriotism for their home and country.

Like the area's other tribes, the Guaraní were cannibals, but they usually ate only their most valiant foes captured in battle in the hope that they would gain the bravery and power of their victims.

Like Heinlein in " Solution Unsatisfactory ", Anderson assumed that the imposition of an American military rule over the rest of the world would necessarily entail the destruction of American democracy and the imposition of a harsh tyrannical rule over the United States ' own citizens.

Like many Sicilians, they would ultimately rise again in support of Carthage during the Second Punic War.

Characterized by sparse, hard-hitting beats — as typified on hits like " It's Like That ", and " Peter Piper "— this would form the foundation of hardcore hip hop ( particularly hardcore East Coast hip hop ).

Like the JAM Auctioneers of past, each time that question was asked, another item would be added to the sale, thus enhancing the audience's and potential buyers ' perceived value of the purchase.