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 other former States, Armenia's economy suffers from the legacy of a centrally planned economy and the breakdown of former Soviet trading patterns.

Like the " Giant Size " X-Men team, McTaggert's former students were sent to rescue the original X-Men from Krakoa, the living island.

Like many former French colonies, Gabon uses the SECAM-K standard.

Like most postwar former prime ministers, Major turned down a peerage when he retired from the House of Commons in 2001.

Like its predecessor, the UN does not have its own standing armed forces, but calls on its members to contribute to armed interventions, such as during the Korean War and the peacekeeping mission in the former Yugoslavia.

Like most of the other former European Axis powers the Italian peace treaty was signed at the 1947 Paris Peace Conference.

Nat King Cole, a former jazz pianist who had had # 1 and # 2 hits on the pop charts in the early 1950s (" Mona Lisa " at # 2 in 1950 and " Too Young " at # 1 in 1951 ), had a record in the top 5 in the R & B charts in 1958, " Looking Back "/" Do I Like It ".

Like many former and current British dependencies, the Tuvaluan flag is a blue ensign based on the Union Flag, which is shown in the upper left canton of the flag ; but has a sky blue field rather than ( the conventional ) blue.

Like the nearby cities of Arcadia, Independence, and Blair, Whitehall is located on the former Green Bay and Western Railroad, which ran down the Trempealeau River valley to Winona, Minnesota.

Like most orchestras the SFSO had been badly hit financially by the depression, and it suffered the further difficulty that many of its former players had left for better-paid jobs in Hollywood studios.

Like Germany, Italy had been formed from a collection of former countries.

In 1975, a collaboration with hit songwriter Tony Macaulay and former founding member of The Seekers, Keith Potger, led to a worldwide top ten record, " Play Me Like You Play Your Guitar ".

Like Judah in former years, Jonathan sought alliances with foreign peoples.

Like the former two other dog breeds, the Samoyed also has a wolf-like appearance, and has also sometimes crossbred to wolves to produce a wolf-dog hybrid.

Like her predecessor, Pappas also went on to find love away from reality television, marrying high school teacher, Stephen Stagliano ( related to former Bachelorette contestant ; see below ) in October 2011.

Like the former Las Vegas dependency, the Museum is to combine artworks from the Saint Petersburg Hermitage with works from the New York Guggenheim Museum.

Like Barclays Bank's former City headquarters, the passerby is nearly oblivious to the tower's existence in neighbouring streets until directly underneath it.

Like many superheroes, The Tick has a sidekick, a rather plump former accountant named Arthur.

Like former historical rivalries between the kings of Luang Phrabang, Champasak and Vientiane, post-independence Laos was quickly divided between the royalists under Prince Boun Oum of Champasak ( ເຈ ົ້ າບ ຸ ນອ ຸ້ ມ ນະ ຈຳປາສ ັ ກ, เจ ้ าบ ุ ญอ ุ้ ม ณ จำปาศ ั กด ิ์), the neutralists under Prince Souvanna Phouma ( ເຈ ົ້ າສວ ັ ນນະພ ູ ມາ, เจ ้ าส ุ วรรณภ ู มา ), and the communist Pathet Lao ( ປະເທດລາວ, ประเทศลาว, pá tʰêːt lá: w ) under his half-brother Prince Souphanouvong ( ເຈ ົ້ າສ ຸ ພານນະວ ົ ງ, เจ ้ าส ุ ภาน ุ วงศ ์).

Like much of Greater Vancouver, Burnaby has always had large ethnic and immigrant communities: to cite two examples, North Burnaby near Hastings Street has long been home to many Italian restaurants and recreational bocce games, while Metrotown's ever-sprouting condominium towers in the south have been fuelled in part by more recent arrivals from China ( Hong Kong and Macau ), Taiwan, South Korea, and the former Yugoslavia.

In 2005, Perry was reunited with former 90210 co-star Jennie Garth when he guest starred in What I Like About You, where he played a character who claimed he had been dating Kelly's best friend when he and Val ( Jennie Garth ) became romantically involved ( clearly a parody of the 90210 " Brenda years ").

Like many former vaudeville performers who turned to radio in the same decade, the stage-trained Wynn insisted on playing for a live studio audience, doing each program as an actual stage show, using visual bits to augment his written material, and in his case, wearing a colorful costume with a red fireman's helmet.

* Pakistan: Like in other former British colonies, a Minister of State in Pakistan is a junior Minister in the national Government who may assist a cabinet minister or have independent charge of a ministry.