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 all jewelry, the price for an engagement ring varies considerably depending on the materials used: the design of the ring, whether it includes a gemstone, the value of any gemstone, and the seller.

Like most Flemish artists of the time he paid a great deal of attention to jewelry, edging of garments, and ornamentation in general.

Like wood, they seem well suited as body jewelry as they are easily shaped and bone, horn, ivory etc.

Like in other Asian nations, Balinese people are fond of wearing tiger parts as jewelry for status or spiritual reasons, like power and protection.

Like most of Central America, Honduras in the 1990s began to woo foreign investors, mostly Asian clothing assembly firms, and it held high hopes for revenue to be generated by privatizing national industries.

Like many European manufacturers, collaboration with other firms increased ; Peugeot worked with Renault from 1966 and Volvo from 1972.

Like the New Classical approach, New Keynesian macroeconomic analysis usually assumes that households and firms have rational expectations.

Like other venture capital firms, the firm does not discourage transactions among companies in which it holds a stake.

Like other top national firms, it pays its first-year associates $ 160, 000.

Like lawyers and accountants in the professional services sector, creative services firms sell a specialised technical service to satisfy the needs of companies that do not have this expertise themselves.

Like Stochastic Frontier Analysis ( SFA ), DEA identifies a " frontier " on which the relative performance of all utilities in the sample can be compared: DEA benchmarks firms only against the best producers.

Like the other three firms that dominated consulting in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, PA was an offshoot of the pre-war Bedaux Company.

Like most firms with global operations in the 19th century, Rothschild had links to slavery, even though the firm was instrumental in abolishing it by providing a £ 15m gilt issue necessary to pass the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.

Like business and university groups generally, these men had very limited knowledge of recent sociological and psychological studies and findings that might illumine the decisions they make.

Like many in the film business, Danny was an aviation enthusiast.

Like his father, Isaac also deceived Abimelech about his wife and also got into the well business.

Like other business creation support schemes, BECs enable budding entrepreneurs to experiment with their business idea while benefiting from a secure income.

Like many other small towns on the North American Great Plains that were settled in the early 20th century, nearly a century after its founding Tuttle has experienced the closure of many business which has paralleled a population trend of outmigration of young people to larger cities and a subsequent aging of its population.

" Like any other business in such cases, a state may favor or shun certain customers or suppliers.

( Like Costello, Don Corleone voices disapproval of the drug traffic, which he labels a " dirty business ").

" Like a Rolling Stone "' s subsequent success played a big part in changing the music business convention that singles had to be under three minutes in length.

In 1915, Piron and Williams together started the Piron and Williams Publishing Company, and in their first year of business published Piron's composition, “ I Wish That I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate ”, which became his biggest hit.

Like Chamberlain he served in Churchill's cabinet, frequently exasperated by Churchill's style of doing business.

Like many other Unix variants with small market shares, Amiga Unix vanished into the mists of computer history when its vendor, Commodore, went out of business.

Like many commercial ventures built around open source projects, there was a degree of contention between company management ( who sought to monetize the investments in R & D, Services and Support ) and voices from the Adempiere community ( who desired that Compiere source code and business processes remained free and open ).

Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " B +" rating, praising Cruise's performance: " It's with Cruise as Frank T. J. Mackey, a slick televangelist of penis power, that the filmmaker scores his biggest success, as the actor exorcises the uptight fastidiousness of Eyes Wide Shut ... Like John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, this cautiously packaged movie star is liberated by risky business ".

Like many New England textile manufacturers, the town's woolen mills eventually went out of business, but the pulp and paper mill remains today as the Madison Paper Industries.

Like the lunch wagon, a stationary diner allowed one to set up a food service business quickly using pre-assembled constructs and equipment.

Like many other video game manufacturers of the early 1980s, Mystique went out of business.

Like this, the meme and the viral ( the marketing buzzwords of the network age ) have been conjured up from an assortment of crude renderings of evolutionary theory, powerful computer-assisted contagion modeling, and business trends.

Like Syrie Maugham and Elsie de Wolfe, other society women that ran their own boutiques, Diana operated a lingerie business near Berkeley Square whose clients included Wallis Simpson and Mona Williams.

* Elvis Costello's song " Invasion Hit Parade " from his 1991 album Mighty Like a Rose contains the lines " Incidentally the revolution will be televised / With one head for business and another for good looks / Until they started arriving with their rubber aprons and their butcher's hooks ," an allusion to the song.

Like debt restructuring debt mediation is a business to business activity and should not be confused with or considered in the same manner as the more blurry world of individual debt reduction involving credit cards, unpaid taxes and defaulted mortgages.

Like GMD in London, MLW benefited from Canadian trade policies which were less restrictive than the those of the U. S. in regard to dealing with countries throughout the decolonizing and developing world, permitting MLW to expand a growing export business.