Like his grandfather before him, Otto III strongly aspired to be the successor of Charlemagne.

Like his grandfather King Alfred, Eadred left a written record of his will.

Like her grandfather, she experienced occasional bouts of clinical depression all through her life.

Like his brother, Ivan II was not as successful as his father or grandfather with regards to territorial expansion.

Like his father and grandfather, he has also been given an official sobriquet, The Brilliant Comrade.

Like his grandfather the 1st Duke, he was raised as a Protestant, unlike his extended family who held to the old religion.

Like Queen Victoria, Miguel would become known as the " grandfather of Europe ", but this was only after his death.

Like his grandfather and father before him, Yakamochi was a well-known politician, and by Enryaku rose to the position of, the highest bureaucratic position.

Like his father and grandfather he is a lawyer and Conservative politician and was a Member of Parliament from 1979 to 2010.

Like his father and grandfather, his education came at the hands of his father.

Like his grandfather he was a prominent statesman and had an equally long ministerial career.

Like his father and his grandfather he also founded a new city named after him, Ziela, but the location of the city is unknown.

Like his grandfather, Ashoka also started his career from Gandhara as a governor.

Like his grandfather, King Willem III used Noordeinde as his winter home, though he preferred to live at his summer residence, Het Loo Palace in Apeldoorn.

; Steven Chu: Like Chien-Shiung Wu ’ s father, Steven Chu ’ s paternal grandfather was also a well-respected local educator.

Like his uncle and grandfather a freemason, Zetland was the society's provincial Grand Master in the North and East Riding of Yorkshire from 1874 to 1923.

Like his father and grandfather ( the famous Miltiades ) Lacedaimonius was a general and served Athens, notably in the naval Battle of Sybota against the Corinthians in 433 BC.

Like his father and grandfather, Rabbi Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik published works based on the Mishneh Torah, often suggesting novel insights on the Talmud in the process.

Like his grandfather and uncle ( both at Yale ), Bush was a freshman walk-on to the baseball team at Rice University, but abandoned the game by his sophomore year.

Like his grandfather, Edward III took steps to restore royal power, but during the 1340s the Black Death arrived in England.

Like his cousin Swinburne, he was named Algernon after his grandfather Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley.

Like his father, grandfather, and great-great-grandfather, this Humphrey de Bohun was careful to insist that the king obey Magna Carta and other baronially-established safeguards against monarchic tyranny.

Like his grandfather Kublai he too was a follower of Buddhism.

Like his father and grandfather before him, he embarked on a medical career.

Like his counterpart James Whitney in Ontario, Roblin expanded the role of government in Manitoba and promoted many initiatives that would be regarded today as progressive.

Like Napoleon, he was the worst of losers.

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 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.

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 a wise gardener, Hardy pruned away the Shakespearian sonnets and songs, and the elements of meter and poetic diction to which his personal style was not suited, and let the main stock of his talent flourish.

Like many regular army officers from the South he was opposed to secession, but resigned his commission soon after he heard of the secession of his adopted state Texas.

Like Achilles in a later generation, he was trained by the centaur Chiron.

Like Emerson, Alcott was always optimistic, idealistic, and individualistic in thinking.

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 other children of the rich Meccan merchant families, Abu Bakr was literate and developed a fondness for poetry.

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 his brother Baldwin III, he was more of an academic than a warrior, who studied law and languages in his leisure time: " He was well skilled in the customary law by which the kingdom was governed – in fact, he was second to no one in this respect.

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 the BBC Micro, the Electron was constrained by limited memory resources.

Like the previous, this Aeolus was said to have had had twelve children-six sons and six daughters.

In 2010, the Australian a cappella Quartet The Idea of North was nominated for an ARIA for their seventh studio album, " Feels Like Spring ", bringing a cappella music back into pop culture.

Like all early Germanic rulers, he was heavily involved in ecclesiastical disputes ; in 895, at the Diet of Tribur, he presided over a dispute between the Episcopal sees of Bremen, Hamburg and Cologne over jurisdictional authority, which saw Bremen and Hamburg remain a combined see, independent of the see of Cologne.