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 von Seeckt, he concluded that France could no longer maintain the huge armies of conscripts and reservists with which World War I had been fought, and sought to use tanks, mechanised forces and aircraft to allow a smaller number of highly trained soldiers to have greater impact in battle.

Like any underdeveloped nation, the Dominican Republic suffers from lack of good paved roads to connect smaller towns and less populated areas, major town roads however are in good condition.

Like the Japanese internees, these smaller groups had American-born citizens in their numbers, especially among the children.

Like Mecca, the city of Medina only permits Muslims to enter, although the haram ( area closed to non-Muslims ) of Medina is much smaller than that of Mecca, with the result that many facilities on the outskirts of Medina are open to non-Muslims, whereas in Mecca the area closed to non-Muslims extends well beyond the limits of the built-up area.

Like the smaller felines, the cougar is nocturnal.

Like Princeton, Fort Branch is also largely a blue-collar town although of somewhat smaller size.

Like the Merrimack, the Concord, although a much smaller river, has many waterfalls and rapids that served as power sources for early industrial purposes, some well before the founding of Lowell.

Like many smaller municipalities across Ohio, Oberlin used to be served by railroads, but currently has no railroad service.

Like most mountains in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, these two ridges are long and narrow, and often fractured into smaller hills and knobs.

Like an 8-track cartridge, it was relatively insensitive to vehicle motion, but it had reduced tape flutter, as well as the obvious advantages of smaller physical size and fast forward / rewind capability.

Like its Fairfax stablemate The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age announced in early 2007 that it would be moving from a broadsheet format to the smaller Berliner size, in the footsteps of The Guardian and The Courier-Mail.

Like the film and digital systems, it uses two projectors but it has been said to improve over the smaller digital screens by retaining the traditional IMAX aspect ratio and to allow films to be shown on screens 120 feet wide or more.

Like many Belgian communes, Ham-sur-Heure-Nalinnes was formed by the amalgamation of smaller communes in 1977.

Like rodents, they have powerful front incisor teeth, but they also have a smaller second pair of incisors to either side of the main teeth in the upper jaw, and the structure is different from that of rodent incisors.

Like some other smaller colleges, Gonzaga's football program ended in the Fall of 1941, just before the U. S. entry into World War II, but not before producing two Pro Football Hall of Famers: Tony Canadeo ' 41 of the Green Bay Packers, and Ray Flaherty ' 26, head coach of the Washington Redskins.

Like all octopuses, it can change its shape easily, which helps it to squeeze into crevices much smaller than itself.

Like the Chihuahuan Raven it is one of the smaller species ( 47 cm in length ), in fact it is about the same size as a Carrion Crow but with a much thicker bill, shorter tail and much larger wings.

Like the albatrosses the procellariids take several years to reach sexual maturity, though due to the greater variety of sizes and lifestyles, the age of first breeding stretches from just three years in the smaller species to 12 years in the larger ones.

Like other gliding mammals, the feathertail glider has a skin membrane between the fore and hind legs, thicker than that of the other marsupials like the sugar glider, but smaller in proportion, extending only between the elbows and knees.

Like the " Believe " packaging sold in the UK in 2006, " Original Mars " was also shown in smaller print.

: Like nominate, but smaller, especially feet.

: Like purpurascens but smaller and wing shorter ; ear-coverts glossed purple, and underside and upperwing gloss quite reddish.

Like most gulls, they also capture fish with some regularity and will readily capture any fish smaller than itself found close to the surface of the water.

Like many of the smaller Aegean islands, Kythira's population is decreasing.

Like Venom, the symbiote is vulnerable to sound ( to a much smaller degree than Venom ) and heat ( to a much larger degree than Venom ), and is undetectable to Spider-Man's spider-sense.