Laurens Van der Post's two novels, A Story Like The Wind ( 1972 ) and its sequel, A Far-Off Place ( 1974 ), are about a white boy encountering a wandering Bushman and his wife, and how the Bushmen's life and survival skills save the white teenagers ' lives in a journey across the desert.

Like most of the Oz books, the plot features a journey through some of the remoter regions of Oz ; though in this case the pattern is doubled: Dorothy and Ozma travel to stop a war between the Flatheads and Skeezers ; then Glinda and a cohort of Dorothy's friends set out to rescue them.

Like so many others, however, Jaap Hillesum did not survive the journey.

Like his father, the young Erik first studied at Uppsala and then undertook a journey through Europe.

Like other tales in Dubliners, such as " Araby ", " Eveline " features a circular journey, where a character decides to go back to where their journey began, and where the result of their journey is disappointment and reluctance to travel.

Like most birds of prey, Common Kestrels have keen eyesight enabling them to spot small prey from a distance.

Like a circle, which is in two dimensions, a sphere is the set of points which are all the same distance r from a given point in space.

Like field, tenor comprises three component areas: the speaker / writer persona, social distance, and relative social status.

Like Chevreul, he stated that if two colors are placed next to each other, from a distance they look like a third distinctive color.

Like other middle distance races, it evolved from the 600 yard race.

However, it is not widely used in building industrial test and measurement systems for a number of reasons ; for example, USB cables are not industrial grade, are noise sensitive, can accidentally become detached, and the maximum distance between the controller and the device is 30 m. Like RS-232, USB is useful for applications in a laboratory setting that do not require a rugged bus connection.

Like all long distance communications technologies ( such as phone and Internet ), by reducing the need to travel to bring people together the technology also contributes to reductions in carbon emissions, thereby helping to reduce global warming.

Like a page layout program, Taste also allowed the user to add these boxes if needed, as well as adjust the distance between characters ( kerning ) or between lines in a paragraph.

Like every other organisation in Germany, Borussia was dissolved by the Allied occupation authorities after the war in an attempt to distance the country's institutions from the so-recent Nazi past.

Like judging the movement of an automobile from a distance, it is easier to see the movement of an automobile when it is crossing one's path at 90 degrees ( i. e. moving left to right or right to left ), as opposed to coming toward one.

Like all Featherfolk, she uses Symbology from a distance.

Like the British Democratic Party, which broke away from the NF at the time, the party sought to distance itself from the vote-losing open Nazism that both groups associated with John Tyndall, Martin Webster and the other leaders of the NF.

However, it is not widely used in building industrial test and measurement systems for a number of reasons ; for example, USB cables are not industrial grade, are noise sensitive, can accidentally become detached, and the maximum distance between the controller and the device is 30 m. Like RS-232, USB is useful for applications in a laboratory setting that do not require a rugged bus connection.

Like the paradigmatic example, the assumption is that people will choose the least distant option, ( in this case, the distance is ideological ) and that the most votes can be had by being directly in the center.

Like the PGA and Web. Com Tours, NGA Pro Golf Tour players may not use electronic distance measuring devices, must wear long pants, walk ( no carts ), follow the same strict play and scoring rules, and exhibit professional conduct both on and off the course.

Like the coexistence of private and public space, or the frequent framing of landscapes through car windows, this fusion of distance with proximity can be seen as a way of generating suspense in the most mundane of moments.

Like nearby Inchmickery, its profile and colour makes it look very much like a battleship from a distance.

Like all underground caves, the available light drops dramatically with distance from the entrance.

Like all long distance communications technologies ( such as phone and Internet ), by reducing the need to travel to bring people together the technology also contributes to reductions in carbon emissions, thereby helping to reduce global warming.

Like the intensity of light from a light bulb or a distant star, the isotropically emitted flux decreases as 1 / R < sup > 2 </ sup > for increasing distance R from the reactor.

Like Australian rules football drop punts, the pooch punt requires the punter to control the distance and former Australian footballers like Darren Bennett and Ben Graham are generally credited with increasing the popularity of this kick in the National Football League.

Like other scholars of his day ( such as Edward Tylor ), Morgan argued that human societies could be classified into categories of cultural evolution on a scale of progression that ranged from savagery, to barbarism, to civilization.

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 most Americans then and since, Story took individualism for granted ; on that basis, he simply could not comprehend a rule that allowed a court to bind someone who had never been a party to litigation purportedly conducted on his behalf.

Like the 1571, it could read and write both GCR and MFM disk formats.

Like other Greek letters, it could face either leftwards or rightwards ( x14pxx14px ), depending on the current writing direction, but just like in Phoenician, the horizontal bars always faced in the direction of writing.

Like the Britannica, Encarta was available online by subscription, although some content could be accessed for free.

Like spirits, the elves were not bound by physical limitations and could pass through walls and doors in the manner of ghosts, which happens in Norna-Gests þáttr.

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 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 its contemporary simpler cousin, the 80186, it could correctly execute most software written for the earlier Intel 8086 and 8088.

Like larger processors, it had automatic CALL and RET instructions for multi-level procedure calls and returns ( which could even be conditionally executed, like jumps ) and instructions to save and restore any 16-bit register-pair on the machine stack.

Like the Christian libraries, they mostly contained books which were made of paper, and took a codex or modern form instead of scrolls ; they could be found in mosques, private homes, and universities, from Timbuktu to Afghanistan and modern day Pakistan.

Like most 32-bit environments, OS / 2 could not run protected-mode DOS programs using the older VCPI interface, unlike the Standard mode of Windows 3. 1 ; it only supported programs written according to DPMI.

Like radial engines, rotaries were generally built with an odd number of cylinders ( usually either 7 or 9 ), so that a consistent every-other-piston firing order could be maintained, to provide smooth running.

Like Andorra, Liechtenstein and Monaco, it appears an anachronism, a reminder of the times when Europe — particularly Germany, Italy and the Pyrenees — was made up of tiny political units, sometimes extending no further than a cannon could fire from a city ’ s walls.

Like TeachText, SimpleText was also limited to only 32 kB of text in a document, although images could increase the file size beyond this limit.

Like Alexander Hamilton, Madison was concerned that enumerating various rights could " enlarge the powers delegated by the constitution.

Like the EX, the clock speed of its 8088 CPU was increased to 7. 16 MHz, providing a large performance benefit ; it could clock down to 4. 77 MHz for compatibility with older applications.

Like PostScript, NeWS could be used as a complete programming language, but unlike PostScript, NeWS could be used to make complete interactive programs with mouse support and a GUI.

Like the Dakotas it had operated on that airlift, Silver City was given dispensation to increase the maximum number of passengers it could carry on the Bristol Freighter above the normal limit of 32.

Like its predecessors, it relied on boards of adjustment, established by the parties, to resolve labor disputes, with a government-appointed Board of Mediation to attempt to resolve those disputes that board of adjustment could not.

Like the First Triumvirate, the Second Triumvirate was ultimately unstable and could not withstand internal jealousies and ambitions.

" Like Lincoln, he believed slavery could and should be extinguished by long-run historical forces rather than by coercion or war.