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 most Southerners, he supported the annexation of Texas.

Other songs performed by Amos include The Doors ' " People are Strange ", Depeche Mode's " Personal Jesus ", Joni Mitchell's " The Circle Game ", Madonna's " Live to Tell " and " Like a Prayer ", Björk's " Hyperballad ", Led Zeppelin's " When the Levee Breaks " ( which she debuted in Austin, Texas, just after the events of Hurricane Katrina ), Kate Bush's " And Dream of Sheep " and Crowded House's " Don't Dream It's Over ", dedicating it to drummer Paul Hester who had died a week before.

The song's meter allows it to be sung to a number of popular tunes including: " Amazing Grace "; " Greensleeves "; " The House of the Rising Sun "; " The Rising of the Moon / Wearing of the Green "; Beethoven's " Ode to Joy " ( in his Ninth Symphony, fourth movement ); " Oh My Darling, Clementine "; " Semper Paratus "; " The Marine Corps Hymn "; " The Yellow Rose of Texas "; " I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing "; " Ghost Riders in the Sky "; " Acres of Clams ", and the theme song from the TV show Gilligan's Island.

Like much of heavily Hispanic South Texas, Duval County is a Democratic stronghold.

Like all Texas counties, Dawson County has four commissioners chosen by single-member district and a countywide elected county judge, the chief administrator of the county.

Like many rural Texas communities, Valley Mills declined during the 1930s.

Like millions of Americans at the time, Gay chose to sign up for the coming war, leaving Texas A & M University.

Like most districts in Texas it is independent of the city of Houston and all other municipal and county jurisdictions.

Like many African Americans living in Texas during the Great Depression, Ailey and his mother moved often and she had a hard time finding work.

Like the alcaldes before them, county judges under the Texas Constitution wield both judicial and chief executive functions.

In 1975, after using his big eraser on his first try at cutting an album, Clark made his recording debut on RCA Records with Old No. l, ten critically applauded originals built to last, including " L. A. Freeway ," " Desperados Waiting for a Train ," " Texas, l947 ," " Instant Coffee Blues ," " Rita Ballou ," " She Ain't Goin ' Nowhere ," " Let Him Roll ," " A Nickel for the Fiddler ," " That Old Time Feeling " and " Like a Coat From the Cold.

Like many rivers in central Texas, it is prone to variable water levels.

Like its sister park in Texas and others, the initial design and theming of Six Flags Over Georgia was inspired by six different flags that have flown over the state ( or, perhaps more accurately, the lands that are now part of it ) during its history.

Like many conservative Texas Democrats, Stenholm opposed abortion and gun control.

Hi-Five is an American R & B quintet based out of Waco, Texas, who had a # 1 hit on Billboard's Hot 100 in the early 1990s with " I Like the Way ( The Kissing Game )".

Like Johnson, Hoynes is a U. S. Senator from Texas and became Democratic floor leader after serving in the Senate for a short time.

The soundtrack includes " Halo " by Texas, " Brown Paper Bag " by Roni Size, " Fall in Love with Me " by Booth and the Bad Angel, " Fools Like Us " by Echo & the Bunnymen, " Tape Loop " by Morcheeba, and " I Only Want to Be with You " by Dusty Springfield.

Like most cities in Texas, San Antonio was served by a loop around the city long before the arrival of the Interstate Highway System.

Killswitch Engage, Every Time I Die, Vanna, Emmure, For Today, Chelsea Grin, Sleeping Giant, Stick To Your Guns, Attila, On Broken Wings, Mychildren Mybride, For The Fallen Dreams, Texas In July, Upon A Burning Body, Volumes, Like Moths To Flames, Glass Cloud, Hundredth, No Bragging Rights, Counterparts, Gideon, Fire In The Skies.

Like Texas, Georgia, and Arkansas, Alabama does not register voters by party.

Like the film it then focuses on the 1966 Texas Western men's basketball team and the aftermath of the championship, which is not in the movie version except for some closing lines on what became of the main characters.

Like most Texas high schools, Naaman Forest enrolls students in grades 9-12.

Like many ranchers in Texas, Allen began his herd by gathering Longhorn cattle, descended from Spanish cattle brought to the New World, which ran wild throughout Texas.

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 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 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 single covalent bonds, double bonds can be described in terms of overlapping atomic orbitals, except that, unlike a single bond ( which consists of a single sigma bond ), a carbon-carbon double bond consists of one sigma bond and one pi bond.

Like his father, Bayezid II was a patron of western and eastern culture and unlike many other Sultans, worked hard to ensure a smooth running of domestic politics, which earned him the epithet of " the Just ".

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 the ocean which shapes them, coasts are a dynamic environment with constant change.

Also in 1983, he recorded tracks including " In England and In Africa " and " Sing Like Billy Bragg " which were used as a ‘ demo ’ to secure a further Peel Session in 1984, where he performed three songs including " Hands Together Eyes Closed ".

Like Plato, Aristotle believed in an eternal cosmos with no beginning and no end ( which in turn follows Parmenides ' famous statement that " nothing comes from nothing ").

Like sponges and ctenophores, cnidarians have two main layers of cells that sandwich a middle layer of jelly-like material, which is called the mesoglea in cnidarians ; more complex animals have three main cell layers and no intermediate jelly-like layer.

Like all stable distributions, the location-scale family to which the Cauchy distribution belongs is closed under linear transformations with real coefficients.

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 most state agencies, Caltrans maintains its headquarters in Sacramento, which is covered by District 3.

Like vacuum distillation, steam distillation is a method for distilling compounds which are heat-sensitive.

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 the above description of the ineffable Tao as " the mother that rears the ten thousand creatures ", the Tao Te Ching advocates " female " ( or Yin ) values, emphasizing the passive, solid, and quiescent qualities of nature ( which is opposed to the active and energetic ), and " having without possessing ".

Like other Wiccans, Dianics may form covens, attend festivals, celebrate the eight major Wiccan holidays, Samhain, Beltane, Imbolc ( or Imbolg ), Lammas, the solstices and equinoxes ( see Wheel of the Year ) and the Esbats, which are rituals usually held at the full moon or dark moon.

Like DECT, DECT ULE standard uses the 1. 9 GHz band so suffers less interference than Zigbee, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, which all run on 2. 4 GHz.

Like the VOC, the company had five offices, called chambers ( kamers ), in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Hoorn, Middelburg and Groningen, of which the chambers in Amsterdam and Middelburg contributed most to the company.

Like the elementary charge on which it is based, it is not an independent quantity but is equal to ( 1 J / C )( 2 h α / μ < sub > 0 </ sub > c < sub > 0 </ sub >)< sup > 0. 5 </ sup > It is a common unit of energy within physics, widely used in solid state, atomic, nuclear, and particle physics.

Like spirits, the elves were not bound by physical limitations and could pass through walls and doors in the manner of ghosts, which happens in Norna-Gests þáttr.

Like some of his other epistles ( e. g., those to Corinth: 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians ), this seems to have been written in consequence of information which had been conveyed to Paul of the internal state of the church there by Epaphras.