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 Prussian officers serving in Russia, he joined the Russian-German Legion in 1813.

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 the Swiss psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung, would have said: Ancient archetypes resurfaced from our collective unconscious and repossessed receptive minds-which were, as a rule, still developing and thus especially impressible.

Like the eleven Swiss regiments of line infantry in French service, the Gardes suisses wore red coats.

Like every public university in Switzerland, ETH is obliged to grant admission to every Swiss citizen who took the Matura.

Like the Cisalpino trains, crews are provided by Trenitalia in Italy and the Swiss Federal Railways in Switzerland.

Like other European and Asian white pines, Swiss Pine is very resistant to White Pine Blister Rust ( Cronartium ribicola ).

The song " Rock You Like a Hurricane " reached number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the same year, " Still Loving You " reached number 64 on the same chart, number 14 in Germany, number 2 in the French and Swiss Top 50.

Like other Swiss manufacturers, the company produces mostly mechanical movements of the automatic and manual wind variety, but has produced quartz watches in the past, and a digital wrist watch, the Ref.

Like other Swiss watch brands, including Rolex and Omega, the brand Maurice Lacroix does not correspond to any one individual.

Like the modern Swiss Army knife they contained a variety of tools, from blades to corkscrews, and were often used by sailors.

Like the Swiss, these Three Leagues had achieved a far-reaching autonomy, but also were involved in constant struggles with the Habsburgs, who ruled the neighbouring territories to the east and who kept trying to bring the Grisons under their influence.

Like all Swiss German dialects, it is essentially a spoken language, whereas the written language is standard German.

Like the Swiss flag, the coat of arms is used on many items, such as Swiss francs, Swiss car number plates, and Swiss-branded exports such as Swiss Army knives.

Like most Swiss banks, Bank Leu had a long tradition of secrecy.

Like many Swiss men of his day, Graf was known to have worked as a mercenary for considerable periods.

Like most of the other vertebrate fossils from the formation, Albertosaurus remains are found in deposits laid down in the deltas and floodplains of large rivers during the later half of Horseshoe Canyon times.

Like any other major rivers in India, the banks of this river also have many pilgrimage sites.

Like many rivers, the Cam is extensively used for several forms of recreational activity.

Like other rivers of this name throughout Britain, the name Avon simply means ' river ', derived from Gaelic abhainn, or ( more likely in this case ) Brythonic ( i. e. Old Welsh ) afon.

Like many western rivers since the 1960s, it has enjoyed successively cleaner waters since the implementation of environmental controls.

Like all outdoor activities, rafting must balance its use of nature with the conservation of rivers as a natural resource and habitat.

Like the Hudson, Delaware and Potomac rivers, the basin was well established in the flat plains that existed during the Mesozoic era.

Like its closest relative, the leopard cat, the fishing cat lives along rivers, streams and mangrove swamps.

Like other crayfish, Astacus astacus is restricted to fresh water, living only in unpolluted streams, rivers and lakes.

Like many Northwest Coast natives, the Chehalis relied on fishing from local rivers for food and built plank houses ( longhouses ) to protect themselves from the harsh, wet winters west of the Cascade Mountains.

Like many Northwest Coast natives, in pre-Colonial times the Quileute relied on fishing from local rivers and the Pacific Ocean for food and built plank houses ( longhouses ) to protect themselves from the harsh, wet winters west of the Cascade Mountains.

Like many Northwest Coast natives, the Tulalip relied on fishing from local rivers and marine waters for food and built plank houses ( longhouses ) to protect themselves from the harsh, wet winters west of the Cascade Mountains.

Like many Northwest Coast natives, the Suquamish relied on fishing from local rivers and Puget Sound for food.

Like the rest of the peninsula's surface the land has a limestone base that does not allow the formation of surface water flows such as rivers and streams, the water instead form flows in underground rivers that sometimes rise to the surface in the cenotes.

Like many Devon rivers, the Teign rises on Dartmoor, near Cranmere Pool.

Like many other rivers in the western United States, the Truckee's flow is highly regulated with most of the river water fully allocated via water rights.

Like other Pacific salmon, its life cycle is subdivided into marine and freshwater periods ; in rivers, this species lives from 1 to 3 years and can form living fresh-water forms.

Like many rivers in central Texas, it is prone to variable water levels.

Like elsewhere in Pohjanmaa, rivers are an important part of the landscape.

Like many other seasonal Indian rivers, the Mahanadi too is a combination of many mountain streams and thus its precise source is impossible to pinpoint.

Like all originality, it asserts itself in what peculiar they have, in what is normally not found neither north of the Loire river ( Touraine and Anjou ), neither in the western edges of the Central Massif ( Limousin and Périgord ), neither south of the Gironde and Dordogne rivers ( Gascony ), namely: special terms ( like brelière, basket andle, or borde, fish bone ), very particular stress switching ( for example, in the third persons of the verb plural: i devant, ils doivent ( they have to ) ; il avant, ils ont ( they have )), etc.

Like all originality, it asserts itself in what peculiar they have, in what is normally not found neither north of the Loire river ( Touraine and Anjou ), neither in the western edges of the Central Massif ( Limousin and Périgord ), neither south of the Gironde and Dordogne rivers ( Gascony ), namely: special terms ( like brelière, basket andle, or borde, fish bone ), very particular stress switching ( for example, in the third persons of the verb plural: i devant, ils doivent ( they have to ) ; il avant, ils ont ( they have )), etc.

Like most desert rivers, the long Amargosa flows on the surface only when rare rainfalls flood the desert washes, except for a segment near Shoshone, California, where the river flows perennially.