Like its long-lived cousin, the refrigerator, a conditioner can be expected to last 20 to 25 years or more.

Like primitive numbers in mathematics, the entire axiological framework is taken to rest upon its operational worth.

Like other groups, the members of this family show patterns in its electronic configuration, especially the outermost shells, resulting in trends in chemical behavior:

Like an alphabet the phonemes of syllable initials are represented by individual symbols, but like a syllabary the phonemes of the syllable finals are not ; rather, each possible final ( excluding the medial glide ) is represented by its own symbol.

Like many games of its time, Asteroids contains several bugs that were mostly the result of the original programmers underestimating the game's popularity or the skill of its players.

) Like the central processing unit ( CPU ) in a modern computer, the mill would rely upon its own internal procedures, to be stored in the form of pegs inserted into rotating drums called " barrels ", to carry out some of the more complex instructions the user's program might specify.

Like most dialects of English it is distinguished primarily by its vowel phonology.

Like IBM, Burroughs tried to supply a complete line of products for its customers, including Burroughs-designed printers, disk drives, tape drives, computer printing paper, and even typewriter ribbons.

Like its native relative the Hortaya Borzaya, the borzoi is basically a very sound breed.

Like its predecessor, Modern Times employed sound effects but almost no speaking.

Like the Eastern Orthodox, the Roman Catholic Church through Apostolic succession traces its origins to the Christian community founded by Jesus Christ.

Like the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church also traces its heritage to the foundation of Christianity through Apostolic succession and has an episcopal structure, though the autonomy of the individual, mostly national churches is emphasized.

Like several other stars such as Denebola and Deneb, it is named for the Arabic word for " tail " ( deneb ); its traditional name means " the tail of the kid ".

Like zinc, it prefers oxidation state + 2 in most of its compounds and like mercury it shows a low melting point compared to transition metals.

Like a grain boundary, a twin boundary has different crystal orientations on its two sides.

Like the 1541 and 1571, the 1581 has an on board MOS Technology 6502 CPU with its own ROM and RAM, and uses a serial version of the IEEE-488 interface.

Like its cousin the guinea pig, the capybara does not have the capacity to synthesize vitamin C, and capybaras not supplemented with vitamin C in captivity have been reported to develop gum disease as a sign of scurvy.

Like a typical diode, there is a fixed anode and cathode in a Zener diode, but it will conduct current in the reverse direction ( electrons from anode to cathode ) if its breakdown voltage or " Zener voltage " is exceeded.

The name Cuāuhtemōc ( Nahuatl pronunciation: ) means " One That Has Descended Like an Eagle ", commonly rendered in English as " Descending Eagle " as in the moment when an eagle folds its wings and plummets down to strike its prey, so this is a name that implies aggressiveness and determination.

Like the 1571, its built-in DOS provided a data burst mode for transferring data to the C128 computer at a faster speed than a 1541.

Like most state agencies, Caltrans maintains its headquarters in Sacramento, which is covered by District 3.

Like all other former Illuminati members, Xavier has sworn to never use the gem and to keep its location hidden.

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 most of his contemporaries, Madison changed his political views during his life.

Like many contemporaries, little is known of his early years.

Like the Oghuz Book of Dede Korkut, an older and anonymous Central Asian epic, the Turkish folklore that inspired Yunus Emre in his occasional use of tekerlemeler as a poetic device had been handed down orally to him and his contemporaries.

Like his contemporaries ( all of whom who were educated by reading classical authors such as Livy, Cicero, and Horace ), Shaftesbury admired the simplicity of life of classical antiquity.

Like his contemporaries in The Five, Balakirev believed in the importance of program music — music written to fulfill a program inspired by a portrait, poem, story or other non-musical source.

Like many of his contemporaries, including Olivares, he had a keen interest in astrology.

Like most of his contemporaries, Rameau often reused melodies that had been particularly successful, but never without meticulously adapting them ; they are not simple transcriptions.

Like Goethe and Schiller, his older contemporaries, Hölderlin was a fervent admirer of ancient Greek culture, but his understanding of it was very personal.

Like their Motown contemporaries the Funk Brothers in Detroit, as a backing band to numerous hits, they are thought to have defined soul music — especially southern soul — where “ the groove ” was most important.

Like most of his contemporaries he began with Hegelianism, but subsequently he developed a system on his own lines.

Like many of their contemporaries the group played at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany.

Like many other British infantry tanks, it was heavily armoured ; from at the thinnest it was at the front, much more than most contemporaries.

Like many of his contemporaries, he owned slaves captured during his raids.

Like most of its contemporaries, foul territory was quite roomy.

Like many of his acculturated contemporaries, he trusted in astrology and other semi-scientific beliefs ; however, he also supported true scientists and engaged frequently in discussions with philosophers and scholars.

With her brassy and gospel-reared alto vocals, Martha Reeves helped Martha and the Vandellas ascend from background singers with early songs such as " Come and Get These Memories " and "( Love Is Like a ) Heat Wave " distinguishing the group from contemporaries and label mates The Marvelettes and The Supremes, who were more influenced by doo-wop.

Like some of his contemporaries, Alexander mistakenly remembered the radical Mecklenburg Resolves as being an actual declaration of independence.

Like the dinosaurs, the ichthyosaurs and their contemporaries the plesiosaurs survived the end-Triassic extinction event, and immediately diversified to fill the vacant ecological niches of the earliest Jurassic.

Like many of his Victorian contemporaries, Rider Haggard " proceeds on the assumption that whites are naturally superior to blacks, and that Britain's imperial extensions into Africa are a noble, civilising enterprise ".

Like many of his contemporaries such as Jorge Negrete, Pedro Infante, and Javier Solís ( the so-called " Three Mexican Roosters " or " Los Tres Gallos Mexicanos "), Jiménez died young.

Like most of his contemporaries he endeavoured to keep himself in favour both with the exiled house of Stuart and with the reigning sovereign in England ; but at the two critical junctures of 1688 and 1714 he acted decisively in favour of the Protestant succession.

Like several of their contemporaries, Lauck and Goff had the opportunity to bring their characters to life in movies.

Like his medieval predecessors and his contemporaries, Fuchs was heavily influenced by the three Greek and Roman writers on medicine and materia medica, Dioscorides, Hippocrates, and Galen.

Eric Temple Bell says, " Like his contemporaries and immediate predecessors among Cambridge mathematicians of the first decade of this century ... Bateman was thoroughly trained in both pure analysis and mathematical physics, and retained an equal interest in both throughout his scientific career.