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 the national parks of England and Wales, neither of the Scottish parks are wilderness areas owned by the government.

Like many areas of the Scottish Highlands, historical deforestation, overgrazing by sheep and deer, and extensive 20th century afforestation with non-native tree species ( particularly conifers ) have resulted in landscapes which are semi-natural.

" Like his friends Adam Smith and David Hume as well as other Scottish intellectuals, he stressed the importance of the spontaneous order ; that is, that coherent and even effective outcomes might result from the uncoordinated actions of many individuals.

The 2009 album Until the Earth Begins to Part by Scottish folk indie-rock band Broken Records features a song, " If Eilert Løvborg Wrote A Song, It Would Sound Like This ".

Like its predecessors, the new parliament had greater interest in redressing perceived grievances occasioned by the royal administration than in voting the King funds to pursue his war against the Scottish Covenanters.

Like his successor as Scottish Secretary, Helen Liddell he attended St Patrick's Secondary School, Coatbridge.

Like the First Minister, the Deputy First Minister is an elected Member of the Scottish Parliament and a member of the Scottish Government.

Like many other Anglican churches, the Scottish Episcopal Church has entered into full communion with the Old Catholics.

Like the late ruler of Monaco, her second cousin, she is a great-grandchild of the Scottish aristocrat Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton, the first wife of Prince Albert I of Monaco, though Ira is descended from Lady Mary's second marriage with the Hungarian prince, Tassilo Festetics von Tolna.

Like other Scottish Protestant Christians of the time they were very conservative and adopted the opinions of a particularly strict form of Calvinism.

Like many franchises within the ITV network, Scottish struggled through the late 1960s and early 1970s with a recession, increased transmitter rental fees, taxation on income ( rather than profits ), a decline in advertising revenue and the costs of converting equipment for the start of colour broadcasting-marked by the opening of the Gateway Theatre studios in Edinburgh.

Like many Scottish seaside towns, Gourock's tourist heyday was in the latter half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th.

Like words meaning " church " in other languages, kirk is found as an element in many place names in Scotland and northern England, and in countries with large Scottish expatriate communities.

Like many of the party's initial members, Hardie had previously been involved in the Scottish Land Restoration League.

Like other Scottish landowners, and other baronets, he distinguished himself from other Moncreiffes by referring to his estate: of that Ilk is Scots for " of the same ", since his estate was Moncreiffe Island itself.

Like his father, Mackenzie took a great interest in folk music and produced several collections of arrangements of traditional Scottish songs.

Like his father, he presided over the Scottish district of the church.

Like 1967, a pitch invasion by the overjoyed Scottish fans followed, but this time extensive damage ensued: the pitch was ripped up ( although it was going to be relaid after the game ) and taken back to Scotland in small pieces along with one of the broken crossbars.

Like fellow Scottish band The Proclaimers, their lyrics are sung in their native Scots tongue.

Like many of the Scottish Travellers from Aberdeen, Glasgow and Ayrshire, she went to Blairgowrie to pick raspberries once a year.

Like other Scottish Region Type 2s, Class 26 were ' maids of all work ' during the 1960s and ' 70s, and could be found on a wide variety of duties.

No Place Like Home is the fifth studio album by Scottish band Big Country, released in 1991.

Like many other Scottish folk singers she likes country and western music but does not sing it in public.