Like his uncle, Jefferson Levy commissioned repairs, restoration and preservation at Monticello, which had been deteriorating seriously while the lawsuits wound their way through the courts in New York and Virginia.

Like other middle eastern ethnic groups, the Baluch claim Arabian extraction, asserting that they are descendant of Amir Hamza, a paternal uncle of Islamic Prophet Muhammad and from a fairy ( Pari ).

Like the pre-Crisis version, this Kara claims to be the daughter of Superman's uncle Zor-El and aunt Alura In-Ze.

Like his uncle, he too came to be known as Sadi Carnot.

Like his uncle, he may have been appointed as a placeholder to allow his father to appropriate the revenues of Lisieux.

Like his uncle, he was a canonist, was rector of the University of Toulouse and succeeded his uncle as Bishop of Mende.

In recent years, Cogswell's short story " The Wall Around the World " ( 1962 ) was rediscovered and received much attention, due especially to the many similarities between its protagonist and Harry Potter: Like Potter, Cogswell's Porgie is an orphan boy living with his aunt and uncle, who learns magic in school, flies on a broomstick and is constantly persecuted by a nasty cousin ( who is in this case, however, part of the magical community ).

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 uncle, Francesco I, government held no appeal for him, and Tuscany was ruled by his ministers.

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 father and his uncle, Monivong was a figurehead for the French administration, and the real power was in the hands of the French Resident General.

Like his near contemporary John French, he began his career in the Royal Navy, serving under his uncle Captain Frederick Mitchell on HMS Queen, but vertigo stopped him going aloft.

Like his father and uncle, he was known for bravery on the battlefield, and during the latter half of Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea, fighting beside his father, he helped drive off the Ming army of over 100, 000 men with only 8000 men.

Like his uncle, William Sprague IV had an interest in politics and was elected in 1860 as the Rhode Island Union Party candidate for Governor over the Republican Party whose candidate was seen as too radical.

Like Bertie, he is a member of the idle rich, as his uncle made a fortune on " Little's Liniment ( It Limbers Up the Legs )," and he exists on an allowance ; however, due to occasional scrapes with his uncle he is forced to supplement this income by teaching or betting on horse races.

Like his parents, grandfather, and uncle, Dudley attended Yale University.

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Like his uncle, who had developed several instruments still used today for the delivery of babies, James specialised in the field of obstetrics.

Like his father and uncle, Niekro can throw a knuckleball, and was first allowed to pitch professionally for the Grizzlies in August 2007.

" Like their older brother Beverley, at age 14 Madison and Eston each began training in carpentry, under tutelage of their uncle John Hemmings, the master woodworker at Monticello.

Like his father and uncle Raj is a painter and cartoonist.

Like his uncle, Levy spent a considerable part of his fortune in having Monticello and its grounds restored and preserved.

Like the merest commoner, he carried his basket of first-fruits to the Temple ; with the people he celebrated appropriately the Feast of Tabernacles, and he devoted to the sanctuary a golden chain with which Caligula had honored him.

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Like Mauss and others before him, he worked on topics both in sociology and anthropology.

Like many intellectuals before World War II he promoted eugenics.

Like the Charge found in Freemasonry, where the charge is a set of instructions read to a candidate standing in a temple, the Charge of the Goddess was intended to be read immediately before an initiation.

Like his father before him, Henry V was faced with waning power.

Like most heavy oils, it must be heated before it will flow easily.

Like the PDP-1 before it, the PDP-5 inspired a series of newer models based on the same basic design that would go on to be more famous than its parent.

Like Li ‘ l Abner and Pogo before it, Doonesbury blurred the distinction between editorial cartoon and the funny pages.

" Like Aretaeus of Cappadocia before him, Avicenna recognized a primary and secondary diabetes.

Like 2 Timothy, the Epistle to Titus is usually considered Paul's final instructions to early church leaders before his death.

Like many other devices that were more fully developed in Europe during the next decade, what could be called the " atmospheric insert shot " made its first appearance in American films during the years before 1919.

Like Descartes and Kant before him, he was motivated by the problem of subjectivity and consciousness.

Like Nayler before them, they saw no reason why men should remove their hats for prayer, arguing that men and women should be treated as equals and if, as according to the apostle Paul, women should cover their heads, then so could men.

Like the Avars after them, once the Hun political unity failed there was no way to re-create it, especially because the Huns had become a multiethnic empire even before Attila.

Like most other intravesical bladder treatments, this treatment may require the patient to lie for 20 – 40 minutes, turning over every ten minutes, to allow the chemical to ' soak in ' and give a good coating, before it is passed out with the urine.

Like his father before him, Cade left his young family to fight for Australia in the Armed Forces in World War II.

Like the AMD K5, Nx586, and Nx686 before it, the K6 translated x86 instructions on the fly into dynamic buffered sequences of micro-operations.

Like many white missionaries before and after them, they were frustrated by the natives ' lack of interest in becoming ' civilized.

Like other shift-reduce parsers, an LR parser lazily waits until it has scanned and parsed all parts of some construct before committing to what the combined construct is.

Like other rulers before him, he promised a swift transfer to democracy, but then made little of these promises.

Like Dada before it, Fluxus included a strong current of anti-commercialism and an anti-art sensibility, disparaging the conventional market-driven art world in favor of an artist-centered creative practice.

Like Plotinus and the Cappadocian Fathers before him, Dionysius does not claim to be an innovator, but rather a communicator of a tradition.

Like his father-in-law before him, Servius fought successful wars against the Etruscans.

Like the Kurzweil Reading Machine of almost 30 years before, the K-NFB Reader is designed to aid blind people by reading written text aloud.

Like most of the Plantagenet kings before the 14th century, he had no need to learn the English language.