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.

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 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.