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 his audience and his critics, Bowie himself became increasingly disaffected with his role as just one member of a band.

Like fascist regimes, Ba ' athism became heavily militarized in power.

Like Parsons, Fisher had drifted west and became established in the Bay Area rock scene.

Like other Bolsheviks, he became commonly known by one of his revolutionary noms de guerre, of which " Stalin " was only the last.

He became a favorite actor of director Billy Wilder, starring in his films Some Like It Hot ( for which he was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival ), The Apartment, Irma la Douce, The Fortune Cookie, Avanti !, The Front Page, and Buddy Buddy.

Like most movie stars of the silent era, Pickford found her career fading as talkies became more popular among audiences.

It became a kind of new pop formula and, within a short while, " Smells Like Teen Spirit " was charging up the charts and even the members of Nirvana said later that it sounded for all the world like a Pixies song.

Like many other male genital piercings, it has a history of practice in gay culture in the twentieth century and became known outside that culture at the same time that body piercing began to emerge in popular culture in the late 1970s.

Like many before him, Richard travelled to Paris in search of a good education and became a canon of the Augustinian Abbey of Saint Victor on account of its reputation for piety and learning.

Like many great players, Williams became impatient with ordinary athletes ' abilities and attitudes, particularly those of pitchers, whom he admitted he never respected.

Like other Egyptian deities, the cult of Isis spread outside Egypt, and became the focus of a centralized cult in the Hellenistic period.

Like Saverio Mercadante, who also reassessed the strength and weaknesses of this period in opera, Pacini's style did change, but he quickly became eclipsed by the rising influence of Giuseppe Verdi on the Italian operatic scene, and many of his operas appeared to be old fashioned and rarely, if ever, appeared outside of Italy.

Like Chase, Garfield became a staunch proponent of " honest money " or " specie payment " backed by a gold standard, and was therefore a strong opponent of the " greenback "; he regretted very much, but understood, the necessity for suspension of specie payment during the emergency presented by the Civil War.

Like Lemanis ( Lympne ) and Rutupiae ( Richborough ) Dover was connected by road to Canterbury and Watling Street ; and it became Portus Dubris, a fortified port.

Hua spearheaded what became known as the Two Whatevers, namely, “ Whatever policy originated from Chairman Mao, we must continue to support ,” and “ Whatever directions were given to us from Chairman Mao, we must continue to follow .” Like Deng, Hua wanted to reverse the damage of the Cultural Revolution ; but unlike Deng, who wanted to propose new economic models for China, Hua intended to move the Chinese economic and political system towards Soviet-style planning of the early 1950s.

Like Ireland, France became well known for its butter, particularly in Normandy and Brittany.

Like Spock, Data became a sex symbol and Spiner's fan mail came mostly from women.

Like Wilson and Labour, Heath and the Tories were pledged to " full employment " but within a year it became clear that they were losing that battle, as the official unemployment count crept towards 1, 000, 000 and some newspapers suggested that it was even higher.

Like Aruba, the islands Curaçao and Sint Maarten became constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Like their Portuguese predecessors, the Chinese forsook the plantations for the retail trades and soon became assimilated into Guianese society.

Like its counterpart Montmartre, Montparnasse became famous at the beginning of the 20th century, referred to as les Années Folles ( the Crazy Years ), when it was the heart of intellectual and artistic life in Paris.

Like Mickey, Merlyn and their sons all became alcoholics, and Billy developed Hodgkin's disease, as had several previous men in Mantle's family.

Her first album, entitled Al Ahavot Shelanu ( Our Love ), was released in 1980 and yielded a string of popular radio hits, including Hageshem ( The Rain ), Shir Ahava La ' chayal ( Love Song For The Soldier ), Kmo Tzipor ( Like A Bird ) and what ultimately became her signature song in Israel, Shir Ha ' frecha ( The Bimbo Song ).

Like its male counterpart, the given name Julia had been in use throughout Late Antiquity ( e. g. Julia of Corsica ) but became rare during the Middle Ages, and was revived only with the Italian Renaissance.

Like many such trademarks, the clattering closet began as a one-time stunt, but " the closet " was developed carefully, not being overused ( it rarely appeared in more than two consecutive installments, though it never disappeared for the same length, either, at the height of its identification, and it rarely collapsed at exactly the same time from show to show ), and it became the best-known running sound gag in American radio's classic period.