Like Pilate, they had washed their hands.

Like his friend and contemporary August Strindberg he had little patience with collective mediocrity.

Like Mrs. Dalloway, with her regrets about Peter Walsh, he had his moments of melancholy over a youth too well spent.

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 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 business and university groups generally, these men had very limited knowledge of recent sociological and psychological studies and findings that might illumine the decisions they make.

Like most primitive, but unlike all previously recognized hominins, it had a grasping or big toe adapted for locomotion in the trees.

Like later hominins, Ardipithecus had reduced canine teeth.

The singles " I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You ", " Games People Play ", " Damned If I Do ", " Time " ( Woolfson's first lead vocal ), " Eye in the Sky " and " Don't Answer Me " had a notable impact on the Billboard Hot 100.

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 Galanthis, Historis announced that Alcmene had delivered her child ; having been deceived, the witches went away, allowing Alcmene to give birth.

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

Like many other buildings, it suffered extensive damage during the Second World War and had to be restored.

Like BCPL and FORTH, B had only one datatype: the computer word.

Like von Seeckt, he concluded that France could no longer maintain the huge armies of conscripts and reservists with which World War I had been fought, and sought to use tanks, mechanised forces and aircraft to allow a smaller number of highly trained soldiers to have greater impact in battle.

Like Lovecraft, he drew upon the nightmares that had plagued him during youthful spells of sickness.

Like the Assyrians, the Babylonians had to campaign yearly in order to control their colonies.

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 ).

Like Brookside, Eastenders had a more gritty premise than Coronation Street, although unlike Brookside it tended to steer clear of blue language and politicised stories.

" Like most Americans then and since, Story took individualism for granted ; on that basis, he simply could not comprehend a rule that allowed a court to bind someone who had never been a party to litigation purportedly conducted on his behalf.

Formed by Harry Wayne Casey (" KC ") and Richard Finch, Miami's KC and the Sunshine Band had a string of disco-definitive top-five hits between 1975 and 1977, including " Get Down Tonight ", " That's the Way ( I Like It )", "( Shake, Shake, Shake ) Shake Your Booty ", " I'm Your Boogie Man " and " Keep It Comin ' Love ".

Like the term " tyrant " ( which was originally a respectable Ancient Greek title ), and to a lesser degree " autocrat ", " dictator " came to be used almost exclusively as a non-titular term for oppressive, even abusive rule, yet had rare modern titular uses.

Like other Communist Party cadres of the third generation, Li gained a technical background.

Like most Australians of Irish Catholic background, Lyons was an anti-conscriptionist and stayed in the Labor Party, becoming its new leader in Tasmania.

Like the Ahnenerbe section of the SS, and due to its occult background, the Thule Society has become the center of many conspiracy theories concerning Nazi Germany.

Like The Business, Dead Air is very topical, with much detailed background on technology and contemporary political issues.

Like other towns in the region, Mercer is in a resort area that has a background in mining and logging.

With her brassy and gospel-reared alto vocals, Martha Reeves helped Martha and the Vandellas ascend from background singers with early songs such as " Come and Get These Memories " and "( Love Is Like a ) Heat Wave " distinguishing the group from contemporaries and label mates The Marvelettes and The Supremes, who were more influenced by doo-wop.

Like everything else in his life, Cato took unusual care to study the background necessary for the post, especially the laws relating to taxes.

Like nearly all French courts, the Council's court system is inquisitorial, and proceedings are initiated by a statement of claim detailing the factual background of the case and why the appellent should be granted relief.

Like many students from a wealthy background, he left Oxford without taking a degree, although in 1771 his work as a zoologist was recognised with an honorary degree.

Like most other Indian stars, Mohanlal does not have a theatre background.

Like the members of SMAP, the members of Tokio performed as background dancers for the idol group Hikaru Genji mainly in the form of the back-dancing group Heikeha, which also involved members of the band V6.

Like the eventual portrait, an oil sketch entitled Madame Gautreau Drinking a Toast ( Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum ), shows the subject's profile and bare arms against a dark background, but is of a more freely brushed and informal character.

Like others of colonial background, Anthony considered himself merely settling from one part of the British Empire to another as a free subject.

Like in the SNES version of Turbo, the background music stops playing between rounds, and as a result the music restarts from the beginning at the start of each round.

Like so many other things in the background of Hambledon, the similarity with Cyril Coles's life is close.

Like Morelli, both Freud and Doyle had a medical background )

Like Olds, he had a strict family background ; like Cooper ’ s characters, he was a boy who had fantasies of being beaten up ; like Benderson ’ s characters, he was a hustler ; like Gaitskill ’ s characters, he was involved in S & M and prostitution.

Like them Resnick was striving for an overall quality for his pictures, a way to unite foreground and background, in order to achieve a resolution of opposites, a metaphor for all dialectics.

Like John Christian Schultz, he gradually left his Ontario Conservative background, and sometimes aligned himself with a " Liberal " position when opposing the provincial government.

Like telemark gear, this equipment is popular with people from an alpine skiing background ; unlike telemarking, it requires no learning of a challenging new type of downhill turn.

Like that of the ambrotype, the tintype's image can be thought of as a negative ; but, because of the black background, it appears as a positive.

Like the majority of generals on the Western Front he was from an infantry, as opposed to a cavalry background and deprecated the insistence on the value of the " breakthrough " and the effectiveness of cavalry to exploit the opening and reach the open country beyond the front line.

Like his predecessor Ernest Martin Hopkins, the fourteenth president in the Wheelock Succession came from a business background.

Like every ticker of the time it was a mechanical format, but by using yellow dots on a black background it gave the illusion of electronically generated green letters and numbers.