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 other senior members of the party, after having no conservative government since Alexander Mair in 1941, Robson had no experience in government, had little interest in policy and alienated many party members by trying to forge a closer alliance with Michael Bruxner's Country Party.

Like most non-media science fiction conventions, all Worldcons are run entirely by volunteers, with no paid staff ; senior committee members devote hundreds of hours ( not to mention thousands of dollars in travel expenses in some cases ) in preparation for a particular convention.

In 2010, the popular pop band Boys Like Girls came to perform at the high school prom after BHS senior Alicia Cauffman won a contest sponsored by Seventeen Magazine and others.

Like many other communities in the London Borough of Havering, the population is predominantly senior citizens and young people under 20 years.

Like his colleagues, Tuckett was intrigued by the Elephant Man's deformities and told his senior colleague Frederick Treves.

Like most Commonwealth forces, the RSM in the Australian Army is the senior warrant officer of the regiment or battalion, normally a Warrant Officer Class 1 ( WO1 ).

Like most Commonwealth forces, the RSM in the Singapore Armed Forces is usually the most senior warrant officer in the unit.

Like nearly all senior Army officers, Rundstedt welcomed the July 1934 purge of Ernst Röhm and the Sturmabteilung ( SA ) leadership, although he was angered that two generals, Schleicher and Ferdinand von Bredow, were killed: he was among the senior officers who later persuaded Hitler to have these two officers posthumously ( but secretly ) rehabilitated.

Like its sister labels, Elektra's fortunes began to wane in the mid-1990s, in part because of a series of bitter corporate battles between senior Warner label executives which seriously damaged the collective reputation of the group.

Like Macdonough, Downie had difficulty obtaining men and materials from the senior officer on Lake Ontario ( Commodore James Lucas Yeo ) and Macdonough had intercepted several spars which had been sold to Britain by unpatriotic Vermonters.

Like their civilian counterpart, these senior officers also possess the authority to make crucial decisions affecting the direction of such organizations, and are also a resource in decision-making, policy setting, and oversight of the military and civilian staff supporting the general officer, flag officer or civilian official.

Like all the senior professional String Quartets, the members of the Allegri teach and give masterclasses as well as performing and recording.

Like several other Pakistani cricketers during the 1980s, his inclusion into the national side was at the behest of a senior player in the team, which in Akram's case, was Javed Miandad.

Like many of the senior members of the Coalition, Birkenhead did not hold office in the Bonar Law and Baldwin governments of 1922-4.

Like many of his peers in senior positions during the Second World War, Banting had served as an Medical Officer with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the Great War.

Like most young men during World War II, he dropped out his senior year to enlist in the Navy, serving the last year of the war and for 2 years afterward ( 1945 – 1947 ).

Like its predecessor, the Balloon Pilot Badge was issued in junior and senior degrees.

Like a master ’ s thesis, the senior thesis gives students an opportunity to, as undergraduates, explore in depth issues that interest them.

Like many amateur captains he was happy to take advice from the senior professional and ' Brown conferred with Len Hutton before he made a bowling change ... there was little room for doubt ... that Brown had tremendous respect for Hutton's advice on the cricket field ', as well he should as the Yorkshireman was recognised as ' a tactical genius, whose advice was often sought ',

Like most of the senior military leadership, he was caught by surprise at the events, but he quickly moved to support the coup.

Like a number of the founding senior editors of National Review magazine, Meyer was first a Communist Party USA apparatchik before his conversion to political conservatism.

Like other senior majors, players must walk the course unless they receive a medical exemption to use a cart.

Like most other American high schools, Cupertino is a four-year high school that consists of freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior classes.