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, Babur, he lost his kingdom early, but with Persian aid, he eventually regained an even larger one.

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.

" Vasquez also released the tracks " Just Like a Queen ," " My Lolleata ," " It's Scratched ," and " Took my Love Away " under the name " Ellis D ." The style of the tracks release under the pseudonym " Ellis D " are largely credited today with having influenced the sound of house music generally, and particularly the sound of most all subsequent " gay " house singles.

Like his mother, neither he nor Christine sought a divorce for the next thirty years and it was only in 1997 that they formally divorced ; Ayckbourn married Heather Stoney.

Like her mother and brother, who was widely worshiped at Troy, Artemis took the side of the Trojans.

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 his mother, Borge began piano lessons at the age of two, and it was soon apparent that he was a prodigy.

: Like two bright mother cows who lick their youngling,

Like Louis XIV, Leopold was a first cousin of the King of Spain and a nephew of Philip IV in the maternal line, his mother having been a younger sister of Philip IV ( Maria Anna of Spain ); moreover, Philip IV had stipulated the succession should pass to the Austrian Habsburg line in his will.

Like her mother, Ellen Ewing Sherman was a devout Roman Catholic, and the Shermans ' eight children were reared in that faith.

Like his mother and father, Louis thought that the Austrians were treacherous and the Prussians were overly ambitious.

Sting released ... Nothing Like the Sun in 1987, including the hit songs " We'll Be Together ", " Fragile ", " Englishman in New York ", and " Be Still My Beating Heart ", dedicated to his mother, who had recently died.

Like Concini, the Bishop was one of the closest advisors of Louis XIII's mother, Marie de Médicis.

" Like Grace and her mother, Peters was quickly intercepted as he came out of the wheelchair section ( there is one at every crusade, situated at the back of the audience, far away from the stage, and never filmed for Hinn's TV show ) in an attempt to join the line of those waiting to go onstage, and was told to take a seat.

Like her mother, she believed he was responsible for killing her father.

Like her character in Annie Hall, Keaton had long relished photography as a favorite hobby, an interest she picked up as a teenager from her mother.

Like his mother, he is extremely nervous.

Like her mother, grandmother, and sisters, Eleanor was renowned for her beauty.

Like Walter's own grandmother, Mary Boleyn too had been a mistress of Henry VIII ; it is up for debate whether Lettice's mother Catherine was conceived during Mary's affair with the King.

When he was the age of 3, in 1959, his parents divorced and he and his brothers were brought up by his maternal grandmother Alicia Acton ( born Chapman ; 1896 – 1968 ) until 1962, when his mother re-married Ernest W. Hook .. Like his band-mate Bernard Sumner, he took his step-father's surname, although in contrast of his friend he kept it, even more, he created his nickname, Hooky, from it.

Like her mother, Ines, who was active doing charity work with the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic in San Francisco, Folger continued to be involved with volunteer work.

Like Pulcheria, her mother was also powerful and of great influence over the church, however not in the same way Pulcheria was.

Like other members of its family, the grey reef shark is viviparous, meaning the mother nourishes her embryos through a placental connection.

Like most other viperids, the young are born enveloped in thin embryonic membranes out of which they emerge shortly after being expelled from the mother.

Like many of his shows, the title quotes one of the remarks his mother often made when she took Humphries to the theatre to see superannuated overseas actors touring in Australia during his youth.

Perkunatete or Perkunatele is in Baltic mythology the thunder goddess mother of Perkunas, in Slavic mythology referred to as Percunatele mother of Perun, which is probably derived from the Balts Like many such goddesses absorbed into Christianity, she is, today, difficult to distinguish from the Christian madonna, Mary, one of whose epithets was Panna Maria Percunatele.