Like many others, he had to work hard, long hours in a struggling family business which, though it was allied to art of a kind -- the design and production of engraved seals -- bore no relation to the painting of pictures.

Like many regular army officers from the South he was opposed to secession, but resigned his commission soon after he heard of the secession of his adopted state Texas.

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 many intellectuals before World War II he promoted eugenics.

Like many other cross-channel linguistic acquisitions, many Britons readily took this up and followed this rule themselves, while the Americans took a simpler rule and applied it rigorously.

Like many of his poems ( e. g. fr. s 38, 326, 338, 347, 350 ), it begins with a verb ( in this case " Let's drink!

Like many ancient historians, Ammianus had a strong political and religious agenda to pursue, however, and he contrasted Constantius II with Julian to the former's constant disadvantage ; like all ancient writers he was skilled in rhetoric, and this shows in his work.

Like craft acrylics, they adhere to many surfaces.

Like many cartoonists, Capp made extensive use of assistants ( notably Andy Amato, Harvey Curtis, Walter Johnson and Frank Frazetta ).

Like many ancient Egyptian deities, Anubis assumes different roles in various contexts.

Like many other buildings, it suffered extensive damage during the Second World War and had to be restored.

Like many artists, Watterson incorporated elements of his life, interests, beliefs and values into his work — for example, his hobby as a cyclist, memories of his own father ’ s speeches about ‘ building character ’, and his views on merchandising and corporations.

Like so many others, Étienne was eventually forced to flee Paris because of his opposition to the fiscal policies of Cardinal Richelieu, leaving his three children in the care of his neighbor Madame Sainctot, a great beauty with an infamous past who kept one of the most glittering and intellectual salons in all France.

Like his father, Bayezid II was a patron of western and eastern culture and unlike many other Sultans, worked hard to ensure a smooth running of domestic politics, which earned him the epithet of " the Just ".

Like many forest ungulates bongos are herbivorous browsers and feed on tree / bush leaves, bushes, vines, bark and pith of rotting trees, grasses / herbs, roots, cereals, shrubs and fruits.

Like the Authorized King James Bible and the works of Shakespeare, many words and phrases from the Book of Common Prayer have entered common parlance.

Like Case, many cyberpunk protagonists are manipulated, placed in situations where they have little or no choice, and although they might see things through, they do not necessarily come out any further ahead than they previously were.

Like most imperative languages in the ALGOL tradition, C has facilities for structured programming and allows lexical variable scope and recursion, while a static type system prevents many unintended operations.

Like many other chorded keyboards, this keyboard can be used with one hand.

Like many other NFL teams located in temperate climates, the Panthers traditionally wear their white jerseys at home during the first half of the season — forcing opponents to wear their dark ones under the warm autumns in Charlotte.

Like many programming languages, Perl has mechanisms to use external libraries of code, making one file contain common routines used by several programs.

Like many other Chinese historical figures, Chiang used several names throughout his life.

Like many proteases, chymotrypsin will also hydrolyse amide bonds in vitro, a virtue that enabled the use of substrate analogs such as N-acetyl-L-phenylalanine p-nitrophenyl amide for enzyme assays.

Like several Prussian generals before him ( e. g., von Moltke and Baron von der Goltz ), he was appointed the head of a German military mission to the Ottoman Empire in 1913.

Like the Crown Prince, Moltke and other key Prussian leaders, he had an English wife ( Delicia Vyner ) and it was widely thought in conservative circles that this was the basis of a liberal Prussian clique.

Like members of many prominent Prussian families, Tresckow married into another family with long-standing military traditions.

Like his mentor Karamzin, Zhukovsky travelled widely in Europe, above all in the German-speaking world, where his connections with the Prussian court in Berlin gave him access to high society in spa-towns like Baden-Baden and Bad Ems.

* Like for other Old Prussian tribes, folk etymology states that Nadruvia was named after Nadro, a son of Prussian chieftain Widewuto.

Like commissioned officers, warrant officers had the right of access to the quarterdeck and were immune from punishment by flogging.

") Like Sandurz, she appears to be a parody of various Imperial officers.

Like nearly all senior Army officers, Rundstedt welcomed the July 1934 purge of Ernst Röhm and the Sturmabteilung ( SA ) leadership, although he was angered that two generals, Schleicher and Ferdinand von Bredow, were killed: he was among the senior officers who later persuaded Hitler to have these two officers posthumously ( but secretly ) rehabilitated.

Like their civilian counterpart, these senior officers also possess the authority to make crucial decisions affecting the direction of such organizations, and are also a resource in decision-making, policy setting, and oversight of the military and civilian staff supporting the general officer, flag officer or civilian official.

Like other Iraqi officers who had served under Faisal, he went on to emerge as part of a new political elite.

Like many officers in the British fleet, Aubrey spent much of his life raised on the sea, joining the navy very early in his life.

Like the 19th century Glaswegian boxes, the London police boxes contained a light at the top of each box, which would flash as a signal to police officers indicating that they should contact the station ; the lights were, by this time, electrically powered.

Like the other schools on SAFTI MI, OCS is a tri-service institution which trains officers of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.

Like their American counterparts, most Royal Navy officers viewed cooperation with the other nation as the best way to maintain world peace due to the shared culture, language, and goals, although Britons feared that British attempts to regulate trade during a war with another nation might force a war with the United States.

Like other Austro-Hungarian officers of his generation, he had little direct combat experience, but had studied and written extensively about theory and tactics.

Like petty officers, every chief has both a grade ( rank ) and rating ( job, similar to an MOS in other branches ).

Like collegiate chapters, alumnae clubs are grouped geographically into regions, which also have their own officers.

Like the officers, the adjudants are entitled to the mon before their rank, as in " mon adjudant "

Like Nelson, she loses her left eye and left arm in combat ( her eye in Honor of the Queen and her arm in In Enemy Hands ); her initials are the same as Hornblower's, and like all three officers, she has a genius for tactical command throughout the series.

Like most other participants in the pageant the officers of arms were no longer wearing ceremonial dress, but white tie instead.

Like the rest of the Army, the Aviation Section concluded that Reserve officers were the solution to its manpower needs and sent a panel of three representatives from each of six U. S. universities to Toronto May 7 – 11 to study Canada's pilot training program.

Like most favored British officers, Tonyn received a large grant in the new colony — a tract in 1767.

Like Webb's Dragnet, it was based on real Los Angeles police procedures and cases, and was hailed for its realistic, positive portrayal of ordinary police officers.

Like all other federal-level responses, officers are deployed only upon request, and upon the recommendation of the Surgeon General and permission of the Assistant Secretary for Health.

) Like EOOW and EDO, the OOD and SDO are the officers who supervise the ship's operations underway and in-port.