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 other horns of antelopes, the core of a bongo's horn is hollow and the outer layer of the horn is made of keratin, the same material that makes up human fingernails, toenails and hair.

Like the double-strung harp, the two outer rows of strings are tuned the same, but the triple-strung harp has no levers.

Like all Asteraceae, the flowering structure is a composite inflorescence, with purple ( rarely yellow or white ) florets arranged in a prominent, somewhat cone-shaped head – " cone-shaped " because the petals of the outer ray florets tend to point downward ( are reflexed ) once the flower head opens, thus forming a cone.

Like other typical Gram-negative bacteria, the outer membrane of H. pylori consists of phospholipids and lipopolysaccharide ( LPS ).

Like the Australian Raven, this species usually has a blue ring around the pupil and sometimes one around the very outer edge of the white iris too.

Like the Munchkin Country, the outer regions of the Quadling Country are rich, pleasant and beautiful, inhabited by kind and friendly people, while the areas closer to the Emerald City ( i. e. most of the regions between the mountains of the Hammer-Heads and the Forest of the Fighting Trees ) are forbidding and dangerous ( see " The Wonderful Wizard of Oz " section below ).

Like the chasuble worn by priests and bishops, it is an outer vestment and is supposed to match the liturgical colour of the day.

Like cones, rod cells have a synaptic terminal, an inner segment, and an outer segment.

Like area 17 of Brodmann-1905, area 18 is relatively thin ; the three deep layers are thin relative to the three outer layers ; distinct boundaries between layers ; abundance of granule cells ; narrow layer VI ; and sharp boundary between cortex and subcortical white matter.

Like rods, each cone cell has a synaptic terminal, an inner segment, and an outer segment as well as an interior nucleus and various mitochondria.

Like rods, the outer segments of cones have invaginations of their cell membranes that create stacks of membranous disks.

Like other comb jellies, the body wall of nudans consists of an outer epidermis and an inner gastrodermis, separated by a jelly-like mesoglea.

Like outer ear trauma, middle ear trauma most often comes from blast injuries and insertion of foreign objects into the ear.

Like all ten-coupled designs, the long rigid wheelbase of the driving wheels presented a problem on curves, requiring blind drivers, lateral motion devices and much play on the outer axles.

Like many arcade games of that era, Phoenix is a top-down outer space-themed fixed shooter similar to Taito's Space Invaders.

Like many of the city's districts, Shettleston was originally a small village on its outer edge.

Like the hand, the phalangeal formula is uncertain, but is at least 3-7-9-8-7 from innermost to outer " toe ".

Like many lunar formations of this size, the outer rim has been damaged and eroded by lesser impacts, leaving a rugged ring of peaks and ridges that is notched and incised by small craters.

Like the outer arch there is a small window in the middle of the inner arch.

Like both of these craters, Hagecius has undergone erosion from subsequent impacts, and its outer rim is worn and irregular.

Like its neighbour Radio City, Radio 390 took advantage of the fort's layout by erecting a 250-foot vertical mast on an inner tower, guyed to three of the outer towers.

Like other words for similar garments ( e. g., pants, knickers, and short pants ) the word breeches has been applied to both outer garments and underwear.

Like probes sent into outer space, scientific drilling is a technology used to obtain samples from places that people cannot reach.

Like other outer planes, the Abyss is spatially infinite.