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.

Most episodes in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s rated with over 20 million viewers and during the 1990s and early 2000s 15 – 20 million per episode would be typical Like most terrestrial television in the UK, a dramatic decline in viewership has taken place and the show currently posts figures of between 8 and 14 million per episode.

Like Encarta, the Britannica has been criticised for being biased towards United States audiences ; the United Kingdom-related articles are updated less often, maps of the United States are more detailed than those of other countries, and it lacks a UK dictionary.

Like velocity, speed has the dimensions of a length divided by a time ; the SI unit of speed is the meter per second, but the most usual unit of speed in everyday usage is the kilometer per hour or, in the USA and the UK, miles per hour.

Like the rest of the BBC, the World Service is a Crown Corporation of the UK Government and is therefore independent from Parliament.

* Television Apparatus and the Like, US patent for Baird's colour television system, filed 1929 ( in UK, 1928 ). n

In 2002, UK pop trio Sugababes scored a No. 1 with " Freak Like Me " – a mashup of Adina Howard's " Freak Like Me " and " Are Friends Electric?

In the UK in the early 1960s, Joe Meek was the first British pop producer to make records with studio-created groups, and he had major hits with singles like " Telstar " and Heinz's " Just Like Eddy ".

Like many long-running UK comic strips, The Bash Street Kids is anachronistically frozen in the era in which it began.

The success of the album was further underscored by that of the download-only single See it Like a Baby, making UK No. 45 ( March 2007 ) and the traditional CD release of Thankyou Whoever You Are / Most Toys, which made UK No. 15 and No. 6 in Holland during June 2007.

Like the American character, the UK one remains popular to this day and has made the transition to television cartoons.

The music also reflected the change, as songs like " When You Touch Me " and " Like This " explored more adult, sexual topics, and a sound that blended her previous urban-pop sound with heavy influences of UK garage, funktronica, and progressively futuristic tones.

In 1985, he released his fifth solo album Walls Have Eyes with the singles " Like a Fool " and " Toys ", both songs were not charted in the US or UK.

Dodd has had many recording hits, charting on nineteen occasions in the UK Top 40, including his first single " Love Is Like a Violin " ( 1960 ), produced on Decca Records by Alex Wharton, which charted at number 8 ( UK ), and his song " Tears " ( Columbia ), which topped the UK charts for five weeks in 1965, selling over a million copies.

However they struggled in the UK, where they only twice reached the top 75 — with " Groovin '" (# 8 ) and " A Girl Like You " (# 35 ).

" I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing ( in Perfect Harmony )" by The New Seekers reached # 1 in the UK and # 7 in the United States.

" I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing ( in Perfect Harmony )" climbed to UK # 1 and US # 7 in 1971 and 1972.

Like other medical schools in the UK, KCLMS has its own sports teams which compete in various student sports leagues and tournaments.

No Way Sis were a cover band from Glasgow who had a top 40 hit in the UK with " I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing " a cover of the New Seekers song sung in the manner of Oasis.

His latest book, I Want to Make a Difference-But I Don't Like Politics, examines the reasons for the decline in turnout at UK elections and was published in October 2006.

Gerry and the Pacemakers ' next two singles, Murray's " I Like It " and Rodgers and Hammerstein's " You'll Never Walk Alone ", both also reached number one in the UK Singles Chart, the latter recorded instead of the Beatles ' " Hello Little Girl ", which went on to become the first hit for the Fourmost.

Like Dance Hall at Louse Point, the album received positive reviews but also was a moderate commercial success, peaking at number 25 in the UK Albums Chart.