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 other children of the rich Meccan merchant families, Abu Bakr was literate and developed a fondness for poetry.

Like the Japanese internees, these smaller groups had American-born citizens in their numbers, especially among the children.

Like many children of nobility, de Vere was raised by surrogate parents.

Like monkeys or small children turned loose among treasured objects whose value is beyond their comprehension, they ran wild — either from perverse pleasure in destruction or simply because of their ignorance.

Like Snorri's Hel, she is terrifying to in appearance, black or dark in colour, usually naked, adorned with severed heads or arms or the corpses of children, her lips smeared with blood.

Like many children in postwar Japan, Miyazaki decided he wanted to become a manga artist during high school.

Like her mother, Ellen Ewing Sherman was a devout Roman Catholic, and the Shermans ' eight children were reared in that faith.

Like him, she was exceptionally talented in music and the couple had nine children.

Like Podkayne, I Will Fear No Evil ends by moralizing about the fundamental purpose of human life, which is to take care of children, and in both novels the moral has no clear relationship to the main events of the story.

Like the other Romanov children, Tatiana was raised with some austerity.

* Lily Brett: Just Like That ( Holocaust survivors and their children in contemporary New York )

Like her, the Cihuateteo were thought to haunt crossroads at night to steal children.

Like Hathor she not only had death and rebirth associations, but was the protector of children and the goddess of childbirth.

Like kazunoko below, it symbolizes a wish for children in the New Year.

Like other archaic poets, Mimnermus adapted myths to his own artistic needs and Aelian recorded that he attributed twenty children to Niobe, unlike Homer, for example, who attributed twelve to her.

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 Barbie, Ken is named after one of Ruth Handler's children, Ken Handler, who died in 1994 of a brain tumor.

Like children today, the younger members of Roman civilization would have dressed their dolls according to the latest fashions.

Like the Van Beuren studio before, Oriolo gave Felix a more domesticated and pedestrian personality, geared more toward children, and introduced now-familiar elements such as Felix's Magic Bag of Tricks, a satchel that could assume the shape and characteristics of anything Felix wanted.

Like many other ideas in Tolkien's mythos, the notion of half-elves is borrowed from Norse mythology, in which elves occasionally had children with humans.

Like most mums, she is very protective of her children, so much so that she is more than willing to stand up to Silverthorn alone in order to protect them.

Like his father, Ellis ' mother was emotionally distant from her children.

Like sleepwalking, enuresis is more common in children and fades away as the child ages.