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 the Fields Medal the prize is targeted at younger mathematicians, and only those younger than 40 on January 1 of the award year are eligible.

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

Eric Temple Bell says, " Like his contemporaries and immediate predecessors among Cambridge mathematicians of the first decade of this century ... Bateman was thoroughly trained in both pure analysis and mathematical physics, and retained an equal interest in both throughout his scientific career.

Like he had at Roosevelt College, Washington avoided radicalism and preferred to work through the party to invoke change.

Like all precocious teenagers, Modigliani preferred the company of older companions, and Ghiglia's role in his adolescence was to be a sympathetic ear as he worked himself out, principally in the convoluted letters that he regularly sent, and which survive today.

Like Kennedy, Johnson much preferred small, informal advisory meetings to large Council meetings supported by an elaborately organized staff.

Like the other " backsliders " and all the artists who preferred a secular acclaim to the gospel obscurity ", like Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, Lou Rawls, Dinah Washington, Napoleon " Nappy " Brown, Ike and Tina Turner, Brook Benton, Jimmy Witherspoon, and Louis Armstrong, Burke recorded an album of gospel songs, " not to be ' saved ' or under any pressure but for their own pleasure and as a tribute to their roots, because, as kids, all of them, like all black children, had sung in church.

" Like Rommel, Wood commanded from the front, and preferred staying on the offensive, using speed and envelopment tactics to confuse the enemy.

Like Pinyin, standard Dyirbal orthography uses voiced consonants, which seem to be preferred by speakers of most Australian languages since the sounds ( which can often be semi-voiced ) are closer to English semi-voiced b, d, g than aspirated p, t, k.

Like other nabemono dishes, each region has a preferred way of cooking sukiyaki.

1992: In the 1992 show, MTV requested Nirvana perform " Smells Like Teen Spirit ", while the band itself had indicated it preferred to play new songs " Rape Me " and " tourette's ".

Like Bobby, Canteen Boy preferred " purified water, right out of the old canteen ", which he always carried with him.

Like historian John Lewis Gaddis, Miscamble concedes that although Kennan personally preferred political containment, his recommendations ultimately resulted in a policy directed more toward strongpoint than to global containment.

Like on their previous records, his preferred guitar during the recording of the albums was a Gibson ES-175.

Like Frasier, Niles preferred fine arts, music, and intellectual pursuits to physical activities like sports.

Like bonds, preferred shares compensate owners with scheduled payments which resemble interest.

Like preferred shares but units in a trust.

Like a bond, a straight preferred does not participate in future earnings and dividend growth of the company, or growth in the price of the common stock.

Like the common, the preferred has less security protection than the bond.

Like his grandfather, King Willem III used Noordeinde as his winter home, though he preferred to live at his summer residence, Het Loo Palace in Apeldoorn.

Like Dracula and other literary vampires, some traditions of modern vampires drink blood, either animal or human, although human is preferred.

Like other babblers, these are noisy birds, and the characteristic laughing calls are often the best indication that they are present, since they are often difficult to see in their preferred habitat.

Like his father, he was not a warrior, but preferred to stay at home.

Like her father, she preferred simplicity to extravagance.

They released three albums, She Like Electric, Free to Stay and Withershins, all of which were written and performed by singer / keyboardist Asya Saavedra ( preferred name Asy, born February 2, 1992 ) and her sister, drummer Chloe Saavedra ( born March 5, 1994 ).

Like many right-wing Conservative MPs, Heffer backed John Redwood, though he preferred Michael Portillo to be party leader.

Like the gladius, the pugio was probably a stabbing weapon, the type said to have been preferred by the Romans.