Like most major works of synthesis, The History Of England is informed by the positive views of a first-class mind, and this is surely a major work.

Like most Democratic spokesmen, Carvey predicts 1962 will be a tremendously `` partisan year ''.

Like the Yankees' slugger, Mays, the terror of the Giants, has had seasons that would be considered the ultimate by most players, but not by -- or for -- Willie.

Like Agatha Christie, she isn't overly fond of the detective she is most famous for creating – in Ariadne's case the Finnish sleuth Sven Hjerson.

Like most primitive, but unlike all previously recognized hominins, it had a grasping or big toe adapted for locomotion in the trees.

Like most of the other vertebrate fossils from the formation, Albertosaurus remains are found in deposits laid down in the deltas and floodplains of large rivers during the later half of Horseshoe Canyon times.

Like the historical Absalom, Absalom Kumalo was at odds with his father, the two fighting a moral and ethical battle of sorts over the course of some of the novel's most important events.

Like most of the other Greek leaders, Ajax is alive and well as the Iliad comes to a close.

Like most of ASU's colleges and schools ( e. g. Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, W. P.

Like most dialects of English it is distinguished primarily by its vowel phonology.

Like most biblical books, there are differences between the earliest surviving manuscripts of Acts.

Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

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 most game birds, the northern bobwhite is shy and elusive.

Like zinc, it prefers oxidation state + 2 in most of its compounds and like mercury it shows a low melting point compared to transition metals.

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 BBC1, the ITV network was officially broadcast in black and white ( though programmes were actually broadcast in colour as early as July that year for colour transmission testing and adjustment ) at this point so the episode was seen by most in black and white.

Most episodes in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s rated with over 20 million viewers and during the 1990s and early 2000s 15 – 20 million per episode would be typical Like most terrestrial television in the UK, a dramatic decline in viewership has taken place and the show currently posts figures of between 8 and 14 million per episode.

" Like most Americans then and since, Story took individualism for granted ; on that basis, he simply could not comprehend a rule that allowed a court to bind someone who had never been a party to litigation purportedly conducted on his behalf.

Like most heavy oils, it must be heated before it will flow easily.

Like most other types of subpixel rendering, ClearType actually involves a compromise, sacrificing one aspect of image quality ( color or chrominance detail ) for another ( light and dark or luminance detail ).

Like most state agencies, Caltrans maintains its headquarters in Sacramento, which is covered by District 3.

Like other succulent plants, most cacti employ a special mechanism called " Crassulacean acid metabolism " ( CAM ) as part of photosynthesis.

Like the PDP-1, about 54 PDP-4's were eventually sold, most to a customer base similar to the original PDP-1.

Like most other Flemish coastal towns, a main characteristic of this one is that it is a national and to a certain extent international seaside resort.

Like his contemporary Palestrina, the Flemish composer Jacobus de Kerle ( 1531 / 32 – 1591 ) was also credited with giving a model of composition for the Council of Trent.

* Like several other Flemish towns, Cassel commemorates legendary giants in annual processions.

“ Like other works produced on the duke ’ s auspices, this model of elegance reflected many of the artistic tendencies of the time in its fusion of Flemish realism, of the refined Parisian style, and of Italian panel-painting techniques.

Like the miniature of the Flemish school, the Italian miniature was still worked to some extent with success, under special patronage, even in the 16th century ; but with the rapid displacement of the manuscript by the printed book the miniaturist's occupation was brought to a close.

Like its predecessor, the Vlaams Belang has continued to be subjected to the cordon sanitaire, wherein all the traditional Flemish parties has agreed to systematically exclude the party, and never form a coalition with it.

Like many place names in French Flanders, the name is of Flemish ( Dutch ) origin ( Zandgat ) and means " gap in the sand ".

Like most of France's regional languages ( e. g. Breton, West Flemish, Catalan, Provençal and Alsatian ), Lorraine Franconian has been largely replaced by French in the 19th and 20th centuries as a direct result of public schooling in French only.

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 Zurich, New York City was a refuge for writers and artists from World War I.

Like many famous artists, Poe's works have spawned innumerable imitators.

Like the elongated scroll scenes of Kaizhi, Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 AD ) Chinese artists like Wu Daozi painted vivid and highly detailed artwork on long horizontal handscrolls ( which were very popular during the Tang ), such as his Eighty Seven Celestial People.

Like many artists, he imagines the beak penetrating Leda's vagina.

Like many Bolshevik artists, Eisenstein envisioned a new society which would subsidize artists totally, freeing them from the confines of bosses and budgets, leaving them absolutely free to create, but budgets and producers were as significant to the Soviet film industry as the rest of the world.

Like Ruskin, Arts and Crafts artists tended to oppose the division of labor and to prefer craft production, in which the whole item was made and assembled by an individual or small group.

Like much of the Hip Hop from the United States, many French hip hop artists use the genre to address pressing social issues.

Like earlier artists, they portrayed the colorful New Mexican landscape and cultural influences, such as the " timelessness they perceived in Puebloan culture and the deep connection to the land they noted in the everyday life of both Native Americans and Hispanics influence experimentation and innovation in their own art.

Like Whistler, Monet and Pissarro both focused their efforts on views of the city, and it is likely that Whistler was exposed to the evolution of Impressionism founded by these artists and that they had seen his nocturnes.

He has directed several music videos ( such as Girlicious ' " Like Me "), as well as newcoming artists, Destinee & Paris's " FairyTale " music video, and in 2006, the feature film The Good Mother starring Angie Harmon, produced by Billy Pollina.

Other related artists include The Bran Flakes, Emergency Broadcast Network, Escape Mechanism, Negativland, John Oswald, People Like Us and The Tape-beatles.

Like most R & B artists of his time, Cooke focused on singles ; in all he had twenty-nine top-40 hits on the pop charts, and more on the R & B charts.

R & B artists such as Mary J. Blige have recorded several covers of legendary R & B artists like Aretha Franklin "( You Make Me Feel Like ) A Natural Woman ", Chaka Khan ( Sweet Thing ), and Rose Royce " I'm Going Down ".

Like the other " backsliders " and all the artists who preferred a secular acclaim to the gospel obscurity ", like Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, Lou Rawls, Dinah Washington, Napoleon " Nappy " Brown, Ike and Tina Turner, Brook Benton, Jimmy Witherspoon, and Louis Armstrong, Burke recorded an album of gospel songs, " not to be ' saved ' or under any pressure but for their own pleasure and as a tribute to their roots, because, as kids, all of them, like all black children, had sung in church.

Like so much of the greatest work turned out by popular artists of the 1970s, true power pop is quintessential second-generation stuff.

Like the label 4AD Records, Factory Records used a creative team ( most notably record producer Martin Hannett and graphic designer Peter Saville ) which gave the label, and the artists recording for it, a particular sound and image.

Like Rubens and other artists at that time, Jordaens ' studio relied on his assistants and pupils in the production of his paintings.

Like many artists, Gigli was a man of contradictions.

Other well-known songs written by Zevon have been recorded by other artists, including " Poor Poor Pitiful Me " ( a top 40 hit by Linda Ronstadt ), " Accidentally Like a Martyr ", " Mohammed's Radio ", " Carmelita ", and " Hasten Down the Wind ".

Like many Lehrer songs, the tone is irreverent, and paints her as a difficult, temperamental companion to the three work-absorbed artists.

Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e. g., by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality.