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 Holmes, the American private eye rejects the social conventions of his time.

" Like his brother Baldwin III, he was more of an academic than a warrior, who studied law and languages in his leisure time: " He was well skilled in the customary law by which the kingdom was governed – in fact, he was second to no one in this respect.

Like the festival of Samhain, opposite Beltane on 31 October, Beltane was also a time when the Otherworld was seen as particularly close at hand.

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 tense, aspect is a way that verbs represent time.

Like most similar works of its time the journal was not written contemporaneously to the events it describes, but rather compiled many years later, much of it dictated.

Like many other tribes, the Helvetii did not have kings at the time of their clash with Rome but instead seem to have been governed by a class of noblemen ( Lat.

Like the majority of Belgians at that time, his family belonged to the Roman Catholic Church, though were not particularly devout.

Like his brother, he maintained an extensive correspondence with leading Christian scholars of his time, most notably with the philosopher Ralph Cudworth, master of Christ's College, Cambridge.

Like many Dutch painters of his time, Jan van Goyen studied art in the town of Haarlem with Esaias van de Velde.

Another Channel 4 poll in 2001 named it the 23rd greatest film of all time ( the only comedy that came higher on this occasion was Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot, which was ranked 5th ).

Like mythos, legends are stories that are traditionally considered true, but are set in a more recent time, when the world was much as it is today.

Like other mammals in the Metatheria, they are characterized by giving birth to relatively undeveloped young, often residing in a pouch with the parent for a certain time after birth.

Like most audiovisual timecodes such as SMPTE time code, it encodes only time of day, repeating each 24 hours.

Like its relatives, Odocoileus and Capreolus, the genera Alces gave rise to very few species which endured for long periods of time.

Like Noah, Deucalion is a wine maker or wine seller ; he is forewarned of the flood ( this time by Zeus and Poseidon ); he builds an ark and staffs it with creatures – and when he completes his voyage, gives thanks and takes advice from the gods on how to repopulate the Earth.

In January 2008, Abdul returned to the music charts for the first time in nearly 13 years with the single " Dance Like There's No Tomorrow ," the first track on the album Randy Jackson's Music Club Vol 1.

#*:" Like many others of his time ( he died just one year after the founding of institutional Unitarianism in America ), Jefferson was a Unitarian in theology, though not in church membership.

Like many other male genital piercings, it has a history of practice in gay culture in the twentieth century and became known outside that culture at the same time that body piercing began to emerge in popular culture in the late 1970s.

Like the JAM Auctioneers of past, each time that question was asked, another item would be added to the sale, thus enhancing the audience's and potential buyers ' perceived value of the purchase.

Like most Klingons, Martok had a disdain for Ferengi, which manifested itself in several refusals to even acknowledge Nog, who at the time was a Starfleet Cadet.

Like velocity, speed has the dimensions of a length divided by a time ; the SI unit of speed is the meter per second, but the most usual unit of speed in everyday usage is the kilometer per hour or, in the USA and the UK, miles per hour.

Like system dynamics, social dynamics is concerned with changes over time and emphasizes the role of feedbacks.