Like Mattie and the mayor up there gripping the microphone and Toonker Burkette back in his office yanking out teeth, like they all knew he would.

Like certain expensive restaurants, just sitting there gave you the illusion of being wealthy yourself.

Like all traits, there is variability in the intensity of fears of spiders, and those with more intense fears are classified as phobic.

Like most biblical books, there are differences between the earliest surviving manuscripts of Acts.

Like the hard drive, there is nothing in a computer clock circuit or data transfer path that demands or even encourages that things happen at rates easily expressed using powers of 1024, or even using powers of 2.

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.

Like some of his other epistles ( e. g., those to Corinth: 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians ), this seems to have been written in consequence of information which had been conveyed to Paul of the internal state of the church there by Epaphras.

Like jumping, skaters mostly rotate in the counterclockwise direction, but there are some skaters who rotate in the clockwise direction.

Like Ganshof, he recognized that there was a hierarchical relationship between lords and vassals, but Bloch saw as well a similar relationship obtaining between lords and peasants.

Like the Easter Island statues, there is plenty of speculation over how this was done by a society without machines or metal, but the generally accepted view is that the head and base were etched out of the ground by sharp adzes and picks ( possibly with the use of fire ), and carried to the assembly area by an elaborate system of ropes and logs.

Like Hee Haw, Lawrence Welk was picked up for syndication in the fall of 1971, and there were some markets where the same station aired both programs.

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 many myths, there are variations of the Judgment of Paris.

Like membrane keyboards, they are reported to be very hard to get used to, as there is little tactile feedback, and silicone will tend to attract dirt, dust, and hair.

Like a DLP chip, LCoS is a microchip of similar size, but rather than millions of individual mirrors, there is a single mirror that is actively shielded by a liquid crystal matrix with up to millions of pixels.

Like the United States, there is a Judicial branch with a Supreme Court which is regarded as the highest court of the land.

Like most of his predecessors, Sixtus I was believed to be buried near Saint Peter's grave on Vatican Hill, although there are differing traditions concerning where his body lies today.

Like on St. Kitts, high winds downed power and telephone lines, damaging the water system there.

Like many countries in the world today, there are three separate branches of government: the legislature, executive and judiciary, though not necessarily meaning that there is a separation of power.

Like many activities such as mountain climbing, skiing, or sky-diving, there is an element of danger involved.

Like Thorne Smith, Tim works in an advertising agency, and several scenes are set there, drawing on the author's experience.

Like all amateur players, they claimed expenses for travel and accommodation to and from cricket matches, but there is plenty of evidence that the Graces made even more money by playing than their basic expenses would allow and W. G.

Author Judith Levine has argued that there might be a natural tendency of abstinence educators to escalate their messages: " Like advertising, which must continually jack up its seduction just to stay visible as other advertising proliferates, abstinence education had to make sex scarier and scarier and, at the same time, chastity sweeter.

' The dictionary adds: ' Like many of Friedman ’ s contributions, in retrospect it seems remarkably simple and obvious to apply basic economic ideas to quality control ; that however is a measure of his genius.

Like Carmilla this undead femme fatale is not portrayed in an entirely negative way and attempts, but fails, to save the hero Spalatro from the eternal damnation that seems to be his destiny.

Like the tale in the introduction to the fourth day, Panfilo's tale seems to derive from the story of Barlaam and Josaphat.

Like her husband, she refuses to accept responsibility for the death of Eva / Daisy, and seems more concerned with maintaining the family's reputation-even going so far as to lie and deny recognition of the photograph of the dead girl.

Like his partner, Mr. Vandemar, he seems to be able to simply move from one place to another very quickly despite his ungainly appearance.

Like a ' faith ' argument, it seems sterile, i. e., allows no further argument, nor can it be falsified.

Like Superman, Superdupont is able to fly but seems less superpowered than Superman.

" his 1869 report of the Cascades mountain range, Frank's father, Samuel, wrote: ' these forests of trees — so enchain the senses of the grand and so enchant the sense of the beautiful that I linger on the theme and am to depart — surpassing the woods of all the rest of the globe ...' Like many writers of that time, Samuel indulged in hyperbole, but his love of the Cascades seems very genuine.

Like Syldavian, the language seems to be based on the Dutch Brussels dialect Marols, such as " mänhir " for " mister " ( cf.

Like most young men he seems to take himself somewhat too seriously ".

Like the castle, The Museum seems to have an endless number of rooms, frequently designated by letters, ( i. e., Dinosaurs are in the " D " room ).

Like much of the Western tradition, virtue theory seems to have originated in ancient Greek philosophy.

Like her Earth-616 counterpart, Janet seems to change her costume regularly.

Like several of the others, its seems to have originated at the time the area first saw major growth.

Like Johan, Sievernich seems calm and jovial in front of others but is known for his " creepy " smile when speaking of death and the truth.

Like Johan, he seems charismatic and friendly ; however, his attitude can quickly change when someone threatens his plans.

Like most dwarfs, ' he ' is primarily interested in gold and technology, but ' he ' seems to also want to keep the Times going for reasons beyond this.

Like the ma ¬ xaz of the Khorkhoruni family, Aspet seems to have been a special, gentilitial, title of the Bagratunis, who derived from it their other, short-lived, name of Aspetuni.

Like other characters in similar Poe works, Pym seems to submit willingly to this fate, whatever it is.

Like Themisto, this moon seems to be the lone member of a unique class, which makes it particularly interesting.

Like the color apricot, the color called peach is paler than most actual peach fruits and seems to have been formulated ( like the color apricot ) primarily to create a pastel palette of colors for interior design.

Like his fellow-lyric poet, Horace, who was one of his great admirers, and in many respects a kindred spirit, Anacreon seems to have been made for the society of courts.

Like the gnostics he seems to have viewed the " real " world as an illusion, which must be rejected in order to perceive genuine " truth ".