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, 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 most great teachers he published a textbook, and his Traité de chimie élémentaire, théorique et pratique ( 4 vols., Paris, 1813-16 ), which served as a standard for a quarter of a century, perhaps did even more for the advance of chemistry than his numerous original discoveries.

Like his brother, Aharon, he was interested in science. He studied botany, zoology, chemistry and bacteriology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Like many characters of the time, he used chemistry to develop powers for himself ; in his case greater muscle mass and brain power using his ' crime cure '.

If one thing saves A Lot Like Love from disaster-and I'm not sure it does-it's an easy chemistry between the leads, though one that owes little to Mr. Kutcher's performance.

Like the parent borane, diborane, organoboranes are classified in organic chemistry as strong electrophiles because boron is unable to gain a full octet of electrons.

Like Luis, I can't see something like this happening to me.

`` Like enough we'll all be up on top by sundown ''.

Like a man making a deep dive, Greg took full breath and plunged back into the valley.

Like as if it were built of books ''.

Like a mischievous boy expecting punishment, Matsuo awaited reaction from the jungle.

Like his late colleague, Mitropoulos, he reads mystery stories, in particular Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Like Pilate, they had washed their hands.

Like his friend and contemporary August Strindberg he had little patience with collective mediocrity.

Like Napoleon, he was the worst of losers.

Like Holmes, the American private eye rejects the social conventions of his time.

Like Lincoln, he can distinguish his relation to God from the constitutional responsibilities a questionable decision exacts of him.

Like Roosevelt, he can distinguish an attitude toward a Russian leader he may share with a host of Americans from the responsibilities diplomatic convention may impose upon him.

Like Burnet, he deplores the indifference of the people in the face of the crisis.

Like Green, Trevelyan aimed to write a history not of `` English kings or English conquests '', but of the English people.

Like most major works of synthesis, The History Of England is informed by the positive views of a first-class mind, and this is surely a major work.

Like his volume on Wycliffe, the work was accompanied by the publication of a selected group of documents, in this case illustrative of the history of Queen Anne's reign down to 1707.

Like all Russians he was an emotional man, and in him the emotions warred.

Like ours, the economy of the space merchants must constantly expand in order to survive, and, like ours, it is based on the principle of `` ever increasing everybody's work and profits in the circle of consumption ''.

Like everything else in Rome, ruins and monuments alike, that house is lived in.

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

Like most Democratic spokesmen, Carvey predicts 1962 will be a tremendously `` partisan year ''.

Like Mrs. Dalloway, with her regrets about Peter Walsh, he had his moments of melancholy over a youth too well spent.

Like the bell at Mass, the doorbell was pitched too high.

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.