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Like many a ruler of an Orthodox land before him, Ferdinand had a " dream of a new Byzantium ".
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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.
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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 ".
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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.
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Like and ruler
Like the Tsar, she was not a ruler.
Like right, the English words rule and ruler, deriving still from the same root, have both normative or regulatory and geometric meanings ( e. g. a ruler as in a king, or a ruler as in a straightedge ).
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Like the Count of Flanders, Edward in his role as the ruler of Gascony owed homage to the king of France, but as a king in his own right, and as the head of a largely autonomous Gascon province, was disinclined to do so.
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Like his father and predecessor, Chandragupta II, Kumaragupta was an able ruler.
Like his father, he was a poet, was considered a sage, and had the reputation of being a fair ruler.
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Like the Buyids, the Seljuqs kept the Abbasid caliphate as the titular ruler.
Exemplary of a comic dénouement is the final scene of Shakespeare ’ s comedy As You Like It, in which couples marry, an evildoer repents, two disguised characters are revealed for all to see, and a ruler is restored to power.
Like the Kirishitan daimyo, he realized that a military campaign against Japan's powerful ruler would bring catastrophe to Catholicism in Japan.
Like fellow conspirators Zhang Song and Fa Zheng, who also sought to hand Yi Province to a more capable ruler, Meng Da pledged his allegiance to Liu Bei when the latter invaded the province.
Like his predecessors, he was not an independent ruler, but a dependent of the Kingdom of Mercia.
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Like his predecessors, he was not an independent ruler, but a dependent of the Kingdom of Mercia.
Like and Orthodox
Like the Eastern Orthodox, the Roman Catholic Church through Apostolic succession traces its origins to the Christian community founded by Jesus Christ.
Like the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church also traces its heritage to the foundation of Christianity through Apostolic succession and has an episcopal structure, though the autonomy of the individual, mostly national churches is emphasized.
Like the Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Assyrian Church of the East, Oriental Orthodoxy and some other churches, Orthodox bishops trace their lineage back to the apostles through the process of apostolic succession.
Like the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church claims to be the One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
Like other native Greek Catholics, they celebrate Easter using the same calendar as the Greek Orthodox church.
Like Saturday ( Savato, Σάββατο ) and Sunday, ( Kiriaki, Κυριακή ), Friday is named for its liturgical significance, as the day of preparation before Sabbath, which was inherited by Greek Christian Orthodox culture from Jewish practices.
Like Orthodox Jews, other Jewish denominations may use any or all of the traditional areas and modes of Torah study.
Like many other Orthodox Jews, he does not believe that God forces people to follow Jewish law ; rather he believes that Jewish law is God's will for the Jewish people, and that Jews should follow Jewish law as normative.
Like all Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Armenian Church has been referred to as monophysite by both Catholic and Eastern Orthodox theologians because it rejected the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon, which condemned the belief of one incarnate nature of Christ ( monophysis ).
Like the Romanian coat of arms, the Moldovan arms, adopted in 1990, features a dark golden eagle holding an Orthodox Christian cross in its beak.
Like the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church and some others have always referred to themselves as the Catholic church.
Like most Restorationist sects of Christianity, and unlike the Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran and some Reformed churches, the LDS Church does not teach any kind of Real Presence.
Like most other Great Russians, Pomors are traditionally Orthodox Christians ; prior to 1917 a large percentage of Russians from Pomorje ( or Pomors ) were practicing Old Believers.
Like his teacher Ioakinf Bichurin, Palladius was a Russian Orthodox monk.
Like Moldova, Budjak is home to a small minority of Gagauzes: an Orthodox Christian Turkic people who arrived from eastern Balkans in the early 19th century, and settled part the area vacated by the Nogais.
Like the practitioners of other beliefs including Orthodox Christians, Muslims suffered under the restriction of religious freedom by the Marxist-Leninist Zhivkov regime which instituted state atheism and suppressed religious communities.
Like many other Orthodox immigrants, they were predominantly young, illiterate, male peasants.
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