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Like many close and closed communities, the language used can often be full of jargon and not readily intelligible to outsiders — sometimes this is for military operational or security reasons ; other times it is because of the natural evolution of the day-to-day language used in the various units.
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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 and close
Like most of the other Greek leaders, Ajax is alive and well as the Iliad comes to a close.
Like the festival of Samhain, opposite Beltane on 31 October, Beltane was also a time when the Otherworld was seen as particularly close at hand.
Like his model Origen, Pamphilus maintained close contact with his students.
Like Healey and Crosland, he had been a close friend of Hugh Gaitskell and for them Gaitskell's death and the elevation of Harold Wilson as Labour Party leader was a setback.
Like Timurlane, Ulugh Beg is close to the Mongoloid type with slightly Europoid features ..
Like Philipp Melanchthon, he fled before the disastrous close of the Schmalkald war, and found refuge in Magdeburg.
# Names of an ancestor: Like the previous example, this was also a common origin with close to 500 or 600 examples, 200 of which are two-character surnames.
Like its sister publication The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator is generally Atlanticist and Eurosceptic in outlook, favouring close ties with the United States rather than with the European Union, and supportive of Israel.
Like many mathematicians, Lyapunov preferred to work alone and communicated mainly with few colleagues and close relatives.
Like their two younger sisters, the two older girls shared a bedroom and were very close to one another from early childhood.
Like most of the other leaders of the Greeks, he is alive and well as the story comes to a close.
Like Crosby, Paul and Ford used the now-ubiquitous recording technique known as close miking, where the microphone is less than from the singer's mouth.
Like the musical genres of the Nile Valley and the Horn of Africa ( sky-blue and dark green region on map ), its music has close ties with Middle Eastern music.
Like many of Saban Entertainment's previous ventures in localizing Japanese television for a Western audience, the plot, character names, and other names usually differ greatly from the source footage, though a few seasons have stayed close to the story of the original Super Sentai season.
Like its close cousin, the Asian steppe polecat ( with which it was once thought to be conspecific ), the black-footed ferret represents a more progressive form than the European polecat in the direction of carnivory.
Like all anguillid eels, American eels hunt at night, and during the day it hides in mud, sand or gravel very close to shore, roughly 5 to 6 feet under.
Like a decibel's relation to intensity, a cent is a ratio between two close frequencies.
Like most gulls, they also capture fish with some regularity and will readily capture any fish smaller than itself found close to the surface of the water.
Like The Governor, Euphues presents two close friends who are inseparable until a woman comes between them, and, like both The Governor and Two Gentlemen, the story concludes with one friend sacrificing the woman so as to save the friendship.
Like its counterpart Deptford Dockyard, it was probably chosen for its position-on the south bank of the tidal River Thames conveniently close to Henry's palace at Greenwich.
Like many Arab militants of the time, he would come to describe himself as a " Nasserist " and developed close ties to Egypt even before independence was achieved.
Like a normal fall front desk the work surface must be cleared of all materials in order to raise it in a vertical position and thus close off the small drawers and pigeonholes set in front of the user.
Like other boletes, porcini can be dried by being strung separately on twine and hung close to the ceiling of a kitchen.
Like his father, he became close to A. C. Cuza.
Like other woodswallows, groups cluster huddled close together on high, dead branches to rest or sleep.
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