Like strawberries in December, pansies are far more exciting in February than in May.

Like its long-lived cousin, the refrigerator, a conditioner can be expected to last 20 to 25 years or more.

Like Jehovah's Witnesses, Adventists use key phrases from the Bible, such as " For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten " ( Eccl.

) Like the central processing unit ( CPU ) in a modern computer, the mill would rely upon its own internal procedures, to be stored in the form of pegs inserted into rotating drums called " barrels ", to carry out some of the more complex instructions the user's program might specify.

Like all traits, there is variability in the intensity of fears of spiders, and those with more intense fears are classified as phobic.

" 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 other hydrocarbons, alkynes are generally hydrophobic but tend to be more reactive.

Like the church, the landed aristocracy felt threatened by O ' Higgins, resenting his attempts to eliminate noble titles and, more important, to eliminate entailed estates.

Like moral panics, conspiracy theories thus occur more frequently within communities that are experiencing social isolation or political dis-empowerment.

Like sponges and ctenophores, cnidarians have two main layers of cells that sandwich a middle layer of jelly-like material, which is called the mesoglea in cnidarians ; more complex animals have three main cell layers and no intermediate jelly-like layer.

Like Brookside, Eastenders had a more gritty premise than Coronation Street, although unlike Brookside it tended to steer clear of blue language and politicised stories.

Like the PDP-1 before it, the PDP-5 inspired a series of newer models based on the same basic design that would go on to be more famous than its parent.

Like for salamanders, the regeneration of the liver involves dedifferentiation of some cells to a more embryonal state.

Like Encarta, the Britannica has been criticised for being biased towards United States audiences ; the United Kingdom-related articles are updated less often, maps of the United States are more detailed than those of other countries, and it lacks a UK dictionary.

Like Euripides, both Aeschylus and Sophocles created comic effects contrasting the heroic with the mundane but they employed minor supporting characters for that purpose whereas the younger poet was more insistent, using major characters too.

" Gary Remer writes, " Like Cicero, Erasmus concludes that truth is furthered by a more harmonious relationship between interlocutors.

Like many other devices that were more fully developed in Europe during the next decade, what could be called the " atmospheric insert shot " made its first appearance in American films during the years before 1919.

The turn of the century saw a more commercial Asian British cinema develop, starting with East is East ( 1999 ) and continuing with Bend It Like Beckham ( 2002 ).

Like some other herbivores, they have a large cecum, containing bacteria that ferment cellulose, allowing for more efficient digestion of plant matter.

He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts ( for which he won the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award ), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger ( for which he won the 1973 Best Actor Academy Award ), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing ( for which he won ' Best Actor ' at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival ), Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.

Like the letter from the fictional ' friend ' in the Biographia, it brilliantly suggests how a compressed fragment came to represent a much larger ( and even more mysterious ) act of creation.

Like most fish, koi reproduce through spawning in which a female lays a vast number of eggs and one or more males fertilize them.

Like non-Latinos, a Latino can be of any race or combination of races: White / Caucasian, Black / African American, Asian, Native American, Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander American, or two or more races.

Like the googly, it may become more difficult to bowl as a bowler ages due to the flexibility and suppleness it demands from the bowler's wrist.

Like most movie stars of the silent era, Pickford found her career fading as talkies became more popular among audiences.

Like the recent Scheherazade from London ( High Fidelity, Sept. 1961 ), it is successful because emphasis has been placed on good musical and engineering practices rather than on creating sensational effects.

Like craft acrylics, it will still to a variety of surfaces other than canvas and paper.

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 Western states of previous centuries, the new ex-colonies lacked autonomous bureaucracies, which would make decisions based on the benefit to society as a whole, rather than respond to corruption and nepotism to favor a particular interest group.

Like the 1571, its built-in DOS provided a data burst mode for transferring data to the C128 computer at a faster speed than a 1541.

Like so many Buddhists from 600-1000 CE, Dharmakirti ’ s philosophy involved mereological nihilism, meaning that other than states of consciousness, the only things that exist are momentary quantum particles, much like the particles of quantum physics ( quarks, electrons, etc.

Like DECT, DECT ULE standard uses the 1. 9 GHz band so suffers less interference than Zigbee, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, which all run on 2. 4 GHz.

Like Dewey he also felt that students should be actively engaged in their learning rather than actively disengaged with the simple reading and regurgitation of material.

Like the French originals, they suggest a meaning related to the season but are neologisms, rather than preexisting words.

Like all energy conversions metabolism is rather inefficient, and around 60 % of the available energy is converted to heat rather than to ATP.

Like his uncle Caligula before him, Nero was also a direct descendant of Augustus Caesar, a fact which made his ascension to the throne much easier and smoother than it had been for Tiberius or Claudius.

Like any plucked instrument, mandolin notes decay to silence rather than sound out continuously as with a bowed note on a violin.

Like its lower periodic table group neighbor calcium, magnesium reacts with water at room temperature, though it reacts much more slowly than calcium.

Like other works of his and other Mannerists it removes far more of the original block than Michelangelo would have done.

Like a DLP chip, LCoS is a microchip of similar size, but rather than millions of individual mirrors, there is a single mirror that is actively shielded by a liquid crystal matrix with up to millions of pixels.

Like the Fields Medal the prize is targeted at younger mathematicians, and only those younger than 40 on January 1 of the award year are eligible.

Like Structuralism, it places particular focus on the determination of identities, values and economies in relation to one another, rather than assuming intrinsic properties or essences of signs or components as starting points.

Like a growing number of aristocrats in the late 4th and early 5th centuries who were entering the clergy rather than taking up the more usual administrative careers in the imperial service, Paulinus spent a great deal of his money on his chosen church and city.

Like most directors, Rodriguez has cast certain actors in more than one of his films.