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 small hunting dogs, they will challenge a larger dog.

Like the larger 74 which was developed at the same time, the new frigates sailed very well and were good fighting vessels due to a combination of long hulls and low upperworks compared to vessels of comparable size and firepower.

Like his father, Babur, he lost his kingdom early, but with Persian aid, he eventually regained an even larger one.

Like larger processors, it had automatic CALL and RET instructions for multi-level procedure calls and returns ( which could even be conditionally executed, like jumps ) and instructions to save and restore any 16-bit register-pair on the machine stack.

Like the letter from the fictional ' friend ' in the Biographia, it brilliantly suggests how a compressed fragment came to represent a much larger ( and even more mysterious ) act of creation.

Like Eichenwald, Lieber concludes that Whitacre's lengthy prison sentence was excessive and unjust when one takes into account Whitacre's cooperation in the much larger price-fixing case.

Like the divide that occurred within the black civil rights movement, the late 1960s and the 1970s brought a new generation of activists, many of whom felt that the gay rights movement needed to endorse a larger and more radical agenda to address other forms of oppression, the Vietnam War, and the sexual revolution.

Like other birds of prey many owl species exhibit reverse sexual dimorphism in size, where females are larger than males ( as opposed to the more typical situation in birds where males are larger ).

Like the tragic protagonists of Greek drama, the Greek athlete had a " larger than life " quality.

Like the closely related bilimbi, there are two main types of carambola, the small sour ( or tart ) type and the larger sweet type.

Like the common agoutis, but unlike the much larger pacas, acouchis are active at day and feed on fruit.

Like the rest of the thumb, Tuscola County enjoys seasonal tourism from larger cities like Flint, Detroit and Saginaw.

Like larger processors, it has CALL and RET instructions for multi-level procedure calls and returns ( which can be conditionally executed, like jumps ) and instructions to save and restore any 16-bit register-pair on the machine stack.

Like their larger counterparts, the use of petrol or oil engines is not permitted, and all remote control is therefore by electric motors.

Like many larger industrial cities, it has been severely affected by loss of jobs in the restructuring of the railroad industry and de-industrialization of the Rust Belt in the second half of the 20th century.

Like the larger Hope, Arkansas, Saline hosts a heavily-attended Watermelon Festival each summer.

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 many raptors, the female is slightly larger than the male, and can measure up to 90 cm ( 36 in ) long with a wingspan of up to 2. 2 m ( 7 ft ), and weigh 4. 5 kg ( 10 lb ).

Like other cellular slime molds, they live most of their life as single cells, but will sometimes assemble into a larger cluster.

Like the Chihuahuan Raven it is one of the smaller species ( 47 cm in length ), in fact it is about the same size as a Carrion Crow but with a much thicker bill, shorter tail and much larger wings.

Like the albatrosses the procellariids take several years to reach sexual maturity, though due to the greater variety of sizes and lifestyles, the age of first breeding stretches from just three years in the smaller species to 12 years in the larger ones.

Like the modern equivalent, the system uses a cache or workspace on the hard drive to contain portions of the program ( s ) currently running, allowing programs larger than the amount of physical RAM ( 48KB in the case of the S / 36 ) to be run.

Like the Shuttle, the only protection against larger debris is avoidance.