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.

She has appeared in a number of television movies, including Like Mother, Like Son, Run a Crooked Mile, Heartsounds, The Gin Game ( based on the Broadway play ; reuniting her with Dick Van Dyke ), Mary and Rhoda, Finnegan Begin Again.

In 1983, he married actress Donna Dixon, with whom he starred in the movies Doctor Detroit, Spies Like Us, and The Couch Trip.

" Jean Oppenheimer of New Times ( LA ) praised the film, saying, " Like gathering storm clouds, Donnie Darko creates an atmosphere of eerie calm and mounting menace – stands as one of the most exceptional movies of 2001.

* The band Belle & Sebastian reference the movie in their 1996 album If You're Feeling Sinister during the song " Like Dylan in the Movies " ( refrain: " And if they follow you / don't look back / like Dylan in the movies / on your own ").

Like all the previous direct-to-video movies, Scrappy never made an appearance.

Like Cary Grant before him, Peck spent the last few years of his life touring the world doing speaking engagements in which he would show clips from his movies, reminisce, and take questions from the audience.

The romantic ballad from this album, " Someone Like You ", has been featured subsequently in the soundtracks of several movies, including 1995's French Kiss, and in 2001, both Someone Like You and Bridget Jones's Diary.

He also appeared in later Landis movies An American Werewolf in London, Spies Like Us, Trading Places and Innocent Blood.

Like many places in and around Pittsburgh and especially Beaver County, Rochester has been used for scenes in movies.

Like those depicted in Western movies, they tend to appear with outrageously long tongues and long razor sharp black fingernails.

Like many animated series, it regularly surpasses the Bond movies in terms of fantastic gadgets and mad scientists, and the violence of the adult Bond series is nowhere in evidence.

Like some avant-garde filmmakers and like his contemporary, Hou Hsiao-hsien of Taiwan, among precious few others these days, Mr. Wong makes movies, still a young art, that create meaning through visual images, not just words.

After The Police stopped touring in 1984, Copeland established a career composing soundtracks for movies Airborne, Talk Radio, Wall Street, Riff Raff, Raining Stones, Surviving the Game, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Highlander II: The Quickening, The Leopard Son, She's Having a Baby, Taking Care of Business, West Beirut, I am David, Good Burger ), television ( The Equalizer, Dead Like Me, Star Wars: Droids, the pilot for Babylon 5 ( 1993 ), Nickelodeon's The Amanda Show, The Life and Times of Juniper Lee ), and video games ( Spyro the Dragon and The Agents ), along with operas ( Holy Blood and Crescent Moon, commissioned by Cleveland Opera ) and ballets.

Like movies, sometimes you have the director of the movie or friend of the leading actor appearing as cameos, so it's similar to that.

Like most of movies by Bimal Roy, art and commercial cinema are merged to create a movie that is still looked upon as a benchmark and paved way for future cinema makers in the Indian neo-realist movement and the Indian New Wave, which began in the 1950s.

Like several of their contemporaries, Lauck and Goff had the opportunity to bring their characters to life in movies.

Like her sister, Collins began in acting roles, in a series of British B movies in the 1950s.

The song has been featured in many movies, including 1970's The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart, 1983's Heart Like a Wheel, 1987's Making Mr. Right, 1987's Ernest Goes to Camp, 1989's Happy Together, 1990's The Naked Gun, 1994's Muriel's Wedding, 1997's Happy Together, 2000's Sorted, 2002's Adaptation., 2002's Cherish, 2002's S1m0ne, 2002's Bubble Boy, 2003's Freaky Friday featured " Happy Together ," as well as a cover by Simple Plan, 2004's Ma Mère, 2005's Imagine Me and You, 2006's documentary Blindsight, 2007's The Simpsons Movie, 2008's 27 Dresses, and 2009's The Stepfather.

Like many Hong Kong movies of the era, it also includes samples from western movie scores, including A Fistful Of Dollars, You Only Live Twice ( film ), The Spy Who Loved Me ( film ), and even the Death Star explosion moment from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

Like many other comic book companies, Top Cow has used many of their properties to create video games, movies and televisions.

Landis casts famous film directors in cameo appearances in almost all of his movies ( Spies Like Us has several in one memorable scene ).

He frequently invited director Frank Oz to play small parts in his movies, and others such as Roger Vadim, Paul Mazursky, Jim Henson, Jonathan Demme, and David Cronenberg in Into the Night ; Terry Gilliam, Joel Coen, Michael Apted in Spies Like Us ; Sam Raimi in Spies Like Us and Innocent Blood ; George Lucas in Beverly Hills Cop III ; Steven Spielberg in Blues Brothers ; Dario Argento in Innocent Blood ; and Costa-Gavras in The Stupids.