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 western genre, the spy-movies and urban-action films were starting to parody themselves, and with the growing revolution in CGI ( computer generated imagery ), the " real-world " settings began to give way to increasingly fantastic environments.

") Like Sandurz, she appears to be a parody of various Imperial officers.

He only appeared in the episode " In Like Blunt " ( the title itself is a parody of In Like Flint ).

In 2005, Perry was reunited with former 90210 co-star Jennie Garth when he guest starred in What I Like About You, where he played a character who claimed he had been dating Kelly's best friend when he and Val ( Jennie Garth ) became romantically involved ( clearly a parody of the 90210 " Brenda years ").

In 2010, Grover starred in a parody of an Old Spice Commercial called " Smell Like a Monster ", where a clam with " two tickets to the thing you love " bit his nose and he rode a cow rather than a horse.

* Scissor Sisters-A parody of their song " I Don't Feel Like Dancin '" in which Barry Gibb from the Bee Gees is mentioned.

Like Excel Saga, it is a parody of other anime, manga and various aspects of popular culture, though in this case with the magical girl genre providing its primary focus and general structure.

Like other test cards, it was usually shown while no programmes were being broadcast, but was the first to be transmitted in colour in the UK and the first to feature a person, and has become an iconic British image regularly subject to parody.

He appears as " Dr. Rawls " in a dream on an episode My Wife and Kids, where he breaks into a parody version of " You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine ", which a frightened Damon Wayans is afraid of having a colonoscopy the following day.

Like Nite-Owl, Ozymandias ' costume was changed extensively from the purple and gilt of the graphic novel, so as to further emphasize his fascination with Egyptian royalty and to reference and parody superhero films such as Batman & Robin.

The satirical band Spinal Tap's 1992 studio album Break Like the Wind was sold in an " extra-long box " ( an 18-inch longbox ) — a deliberate parody of the prevailing longbox packaging controversy, as well as an inside joke on the Christopher Guest scene in the film where he explains ' these ( amplifiers ) go to eleven ', and possibly a phallic metaphor.

Like Atlantis and El Dorado, the land of Cockaigne was an utopia, a fictional place where, in a parody of paradise, idleness and gluttony were the principal occupations.

Like The Streets, Riuven treads a fine line between reality and parody.

Talking blues is also popular as a medium for parody, as in " Like a Lamb to the Slaughter ", Frank Hayes's talking-blues parody of Matty Groves:

Like many parody sites, the humor derives from fans ' love for the franchise and often punchlines reflect more the contrasting intentions and obligations of writers and network executives, rather than the series itself.

Like Robert Tilton, Thomas ' unusual preaching style has lent itself to various flatulence-ridden parody videos on the internet.

* The song played during the TV ad for the Ribwich is a parody of " Like a Rock " by Bob Seger, which is best known as Chevrolet trucks theme music through most of the 1990s.

Like ' Taboo ', a parody of the proceedings against ' Jurgen '.

Like many Saturday Night Live sketches at that time, " Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer " was presented as a parody of a television show.

Like the Battle Hymn itself, the parody is sung to the tune of John Brown's Body.

Like its main rival broadcast on the Seven Network, Today Tonight, A Current Affair is often considered by media critics and the public at large to use sensationalist journalism – as depicted in the parody television show Frontline – and to deliberately present advertising as editorial content, as previously exposed on the ABC program Media Watch.

Like much of Kellaway's work, it zeroed in on office mores, but also displayed an emotional range that surprised some readers who were more used to the pure parody of Martin Lukes.