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 many other composers of the time, he was influenced by the Russian-French émigré Igor Stravinsky.

Like Lisitsian, they sing Verdi and the works of their native composers, including Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades.

Like many American composers of his time, he was deeply impressed by the symphonic achievement of Sibelius.

Like most other Impressionist composers, Ireland favoured small forms and wrote neither symphonies nor operas, although his Piano Concerto is among his best works.

Like most other works by Pachelbel and other pre-1700 composers, the Canon remained forgotten for centuries and was rediscovered only in the 20th century.

Like his fellow countryman and friend, Manuel de Falla, while there he got to know the impressionist composers Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy.

Like " You Light Up My Life ", the song was nominated for an Academy Award for its composers, the Sherman Brothers.

Like many composers of his generation, John Luther Adams did not grow up immersed in scored music.

Like André Breton, godfather of the surrealist movement, Maciunas would invite artists, composers and even philosophers to take part in activities.

Like other composers such as Berlioz and Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky was deeply inspired by Shakespeare and wrote works based on The Tempest and Hamlet as well.

Like many of the French pianists who grew up in the aftermath of the First World War, Monique Haas's repertoire was characterised by an avoidance of Romantic composers and a significant representation of French music.

Like Michael William Balfe, he was born an Irishman, and his reputation as one of the few composers known beyond the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland at that time is naturally coupled with Balfe's.

Like many successful demo groups, Spreadpoint had their own coders, graphics artists and music composers.

Like many Jewish composers ( and other composers considered subversive of the Germanic purity of the Third Reich ), Goldschmidt had his work condemned as " degenerate music " by the regime.

Ben Brantley, reviewing for the New York Times, wrote: " About halfway into its intermissionless 90 minutes, Little Fish starts to lose its shapely, sharp-edged contours and turn into a sentimental, well, blob ... Mr. LaChiusa ... and Ms. Daniele have done a swell job of fashioning a lively musical about what it means to feel lifeless in contemporary Manhattan ... Like many American musical composers under 50, Mr. LaChiusa is an artistic descendant of Mr. Sondheim, and in many ways Little Fish can be regarded as a direct, latter-day answer to Company.

Like most composers of medieval biblical epics, she incorporates many ideas and motifs belonging to the so-called Medieval popular Bible, motifs which were popular in her time, and remain popular into ours-such as the ox and the ass at the crib-which are in fact not to be found in the Bible itself.

Like the adjacent Arabic culture ( in the pre-Islamic period ), the act of marriage appears mainly to have consisted of the groom fetching the bride, although among the Israelites ( unlike the Arabs ) the procession was a festive occasion, accompanied by music, dancing, and lights.

Like all foreign policy developments of this period affecting Afghanistan, the conclusion of the " Great Game " between Russia and Britain occurred without the Afghan ruler's participation.

While they did not release any albums during this period, Devo recorded a number of songs for various films and compilations since their reunion, including a cover of the Nine Inch Nails hit, " Head Like a Hole " for the film Supercop.

Like many post-Soviet countries, Georgia went through a period of sharp economic decline during 1990s, with high inflation and large budget deficits, due to persistent tax evasion.

Like most grimoires of this period, it dealt with ( amongst other things ) how to discover treasure.

Like most of Portuguese Angola, the cosmopolitan city of Luanda was not affected by the Portuguese Colonial War ( 1961 – 1974 ); economic growth and development in the entire region reached record highs during this period.

Like the Kalama period, the Goat Rocks period started with an explosion of dacite tephra, followed by an andesite lava flow, and culminated with the emplacement of a dacite dome.

Like the Dalton Minimum and Spörer Minimum, the Maunder Minimum coincided with a period of lower-than-average global temperatures.

Like other Egyptian deities, the cult of Isis spread outside Egypt, and became the focus of a centralized cult in the Hellenistic period.

Like Saverio Mercadante, who also reassessed the strength and weaknesses of this period in opera, Pacini's style did change, but he quickly became eclipsed by the rising influence of Giuseppe Verdi on the Italian operatic scene, and many of his operas appeared to be old fashioned and rarely, if ever, appeared outside of Italy.

Like most integrated circuits of the period 1965 – 1990, TTL devices were usually packaged in through-hole, dual in-line packages with between 14 and 24 lead wires, usually made of epoxy plastic ( PDIP ) or sometimes of ceramic ( CDIP ).

Like its Chalcolithic neighbor Uruk, Susa began as a discrete settlement in the Susa I period ( c 4000 BCE ).

Like the Timeless River world in Kingdom Hearts II, it is featured as a period of Mickey Mouse's past.

Like most other Latin oratorios of the period, it is in one section only.

Like all isolated pulsars, its period is slowing very gradually.

Like many such trademarks, the clattering closet began as a one-time stunt, but " the closet " was developed carefully, not being overused ( it rarely appeared in more than two consecutive installments, though it never disappeared for the same length, either, at the height of its identification, and it rarely collapsed at exactly the same time from show to show ), and it became the best-known running sound gag in American radio's classic period.

Like most Persian mathematicians of the period, Khayyám was also an astronomer and achieved fame in that role.

Like most towns of the period, the plan of the Original Town of Forrest was centered on a long narrow Depot Grounds, which were on the north side of the tracks.

Like other parks of the period, the Great Park was not just used for hunting but was exploited for its wider resources: there are records of charcoal-burning being conducted in the park in 1385, for example.

Like the extremely accelerated growth San Francisco experienced during the gold rush period in California, Bluefield became a city that sprung up " overnight ," and it far outpaced the infrastructure available to it at the time.

Like many other Soviet cities, the Stalinist style of architecture was prevalent during this period, with apartments in the centre as well as administrative buildings including the massive Council of Ministers and the Grozny University buildings being constructed in Grozny.

Like most " historians " of the period, he never pauses to weigh the evidence or to take a comprehensive view of the situation.

Like Henry Ford — a contemporary of Sloan with a rather special relationship to him as the other " head man " of an automotive colossus — Sloan is remembered today with a complex mixture of admiration for his accomplishments, appreciation for his philanthropic legacy and unease or reproach about his attitudes during the interwar period and World War II.

Like all the aristocrats of the period, for the duration of the Social Season and parliamentary sessions, he and his family resided in state in a Dublin residence.