Like the historical Absalom, Absalom Kumalo was at odds with his father, the two fighting a moral and ethical battle of sorts over the course of some of the novel's most important events.

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 many artists, Watterson incorporated elements of his life, interests, beliefs and values into his work — for example, his hobby as a cyclist, memories of his own father ’ s speeches about ‘ building character ’, and his views on merchandising and corporations.

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 his father before him, Henry V was faced with waning power.

Like Hugh Magnus, Henry was crowned as co-ruler with his father ( 1027 ), in the Capetian tradition, but he had little power or influence as junior king while his father still lived.

Like his father and brother, Harry was educated at independent schools, starting at Jane Mynors ' nursery school and the pre-preparatory Wetherby School, both in London.

Like his father, Isaac also deceived Abimelech about his wife and also got into the well business.

Like his father before him, Cade left his young family to fight for Australia in the Armed Forces in World War II.

Like his father, Downey pursued a career in music, recording in both pop and country styles.

Like Athena, Minerva was born from the head of her father, Jupiter ( Greek Zeus ).

* Like Laertes, who received the famous list of maxims from his father Polonius, Robert Cecil received a similar list from his father Burghley — a list that E. K. Chambers suggested as Shakespeare's likely source.

Like his predecessor Herodotus, known as " the father of history ", Thucydides places a high value on eyewitness testimony and writes about events in which he himself probably took part.

Like other contemporary arrangements, the agreement stressed the responsibility of the adopted rather than adopter, focusing on the fact that, under the contract, the adoptive father was meant to be cared for in his old age ; an idea that is similar to the conceptions of adoption under Roman law.

Like his father, he majored in chemistry.

Like his father, Carter Harrison, Sr., Carter Harrison, Jr. gained election to five terms as Chicago's mayor.

Like his father, he added the aristocratic-sounding particle to help him fit into respected society, but it was a choice based on skill, not birthright.

Like his father, Poseidon, he carried a trident.

Like his renowned father Alessandro Scarlatti he composed in a variety of musical forms, although today he is known mainly for his 555 keyboard sonatas.

Like his father, he shrank from proposing the wholesale abolition of the rotten boroughs, advocating instead an increase in county representation.

Like Burton, his father died from a cerebral haemorrhage, in January 1957, at the age of 81.

Like his father George Calvert, who had originated the efforts that led to the colony's charter, Cecilius Calvert was Catholic at a time when England was dominated by the Anglican Church.

Like every Southerner I can't escape the romantic tradition of brave defeats, forlorn lost causes.

Like Finnish and Hungarian, Estonian is a somewhat agglutinative language, but unlike them, it has lost the vowel harmony of the hypothetical Proto-Uralic language, although in older texts the vowel harmony can still be recognized.

Like Van Buren, she was raised in a Dutch home and never lost her distinct Dutch accent.

Like all stars, the sun's corona is constantly being lost to space, creating what is essentially a very thin atmosphere throughout the Solar System.

Like many species that colonize remote islands with few predators it lost much of its anti-predator behaviour, along with its ability to fly.

Like much Roman comedy, it is probably translated from an earlier Greek original, most commonly held to be Philemon's Long Night, or Rhinthon's Amphitryon, both now lost.

Like most other Pooh characters, Roo is based on a stuffed toy animal that belonged to Milne's son, Christopher Robin Milne, though stuffed Roo was lost a long time ago.

Like Aristotle, most of his writings are lost works.

Like many other small communities in the Great Plains, it lost its younger residents to cities that were experiencing growth and offering better jobs.

Like many of the surrounding towns ( Pittston, Hughestown, Old Forge ), Duryea lost population when the need for deep-mined coal diminished.

Like her husband, she also served as a junior minister, as a Parliamentary Secretary at the Board of Trade, and also lost her seat at the 1970 general election.

Like the Galah, this species has not lost the ability to deposit diluted pigments dyes in its body plumage, although it does not produce melanin coloration anymore, resulting in a lighter bird overall compared to the Galah.

Like the time Pinky Tuscadero crashed her motorcycle, or the night I lost all my money to those card sharks and my dad Tom Bosley had to get it back.

Like other chordates, tunicates have a notochord during their early development, but by the time they have completed their larval stages they have lost all myomeric segmentation throughout the body.

Like many other English villages, Oakley has in recent years lost its Post Office, shop, surgery and filling station.

Like others which fired their blast furnaces with locally produced charcoal, the Wendener Hütte lost out to the developing coal-based steel industry in the Ruhr Area.

Like many other young physicists of the baby boom era, he had a hard time finding a permanent job, because there were far fewer assistant professorships than there were young scientists seeking such jobs, a phenomenon that has been referred to as the “ generation of lost scholars .”

Like other notacanthiform fish, halosaurs are able to regenerate their tails easily if lost.

Hands All Over continues the band's lost love theme, along with songs about infatuation, and was re-released with the song " Moves Like Jagger ", an electropop song featuring Christina Aguilera which represents a drastic change in the band's sound, with more of a dance feel to it.

Like Riose, Belisarius served a strong emperor, Justinian the Great, in an empire that it had declined from its peak ( Belisarius was one of the people, along with Justinian, known as " the last of the Romans ", i. e., imperials ); helped it to recapture much of its lost territory ; and was called back on baseless suspicion that he was angling for the Imperial throne.

Like Die schöne Müllerin, Schubert's Winterreise is not merely a collection of songs upon a single theme ( lost or unrequited love ) but is in effect one single dramatic monologue, lasting over an hour in performance.

Like I ’ d lost a loved one.

Like all members of the Brown Ajah, she devotes herself to knowledge and the pursuit of it ; as a result, she has a tendency to go on fruitless tangents in dire conversations, and appear lost in thought at inopportune moments.

Like many other 19th century medical terms which lost precise meaning as they gained wider currency, " midget " as a term for someone with severe proportional shortness acquired pejorative connotations and is no longer used in a medical context.