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 his late colleague, Mitropoulos, he reads mystery stories, in particular Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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 mythos, legends are stories that are traditionally considered true, but are set in a more recent time, when the world was much as it is today.

Lardner went on to write such well-known stories as " Haircut ", " Some Like Them Cold ", " The Golden Honeymoon ", " Alibi Ike ", and " A Day with Conrad Green ".

By the early 1940s, the British film industry began to combine documentary techniques with fictional stories in films like Noël Coward's In Which We Serve ( 1942 ), Millions Like Us ( 1943 ) and The Way Ahead ( 1944 ).

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.

" Eshaghian's documentary, Be Like Others, chronicles a number of stories of Iranian gay men who feel transitioning is the only way to avoid further persecution, jail and / or execution.

Like the works of many other important fiction writers of his day — e. g. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens — Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories first appeared in serial form in the monthly Strand magazine in the United Kingdom.

Like all Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, most of the Kwakwaka ' wakw tribes have stories about their people surviving the flood.

" Like all of Buechner's stories, this one will make you laugh and cry.

Like the oldest in Ohio County, it is a Greek Revival building with two stories and a Doric portico supported by fluted columns ; it has ornamental iron stairs and a clock tower.

Like many stories dealing with knowledge of future events, " The Minority Report " questions the existence of free will.

He wrote about this world in novels and short stories, including Times Like These ( 1936 ) which explores the life of a working-class family during the 1926 miners ' strike.

Like many old buildings, Ordsall Hall has stories of hauntings.

Like the majority of Australians, Lawson lived in a city, but had had plenty of experience in outback life, in fact, many of his stories reflected his experiences in real life.

Asher proposed to call the disorder " Munchausen Syndrome ," commenting: " Like the famous Baron von Munchausen, the persons affected have always travelled widely ; and their stories, like those attributed to him, are both dramatic and untruthful.

Like their previous albums, Catch Without Arms was a concept album ; however, differing from the concrete stories and events surrounding their earlier releases, Catch Without Arms was about opposites, mainly focused on positives and negatives.

Wells also used the concept of parallel universes as a consequence of time as the fourth dimension in stories like The Wonderful Visit and Men Like Gods, an idea proposed by the astronomer Simon Newcomb, who talked about both time and parallel universes ; " Add a fourth dimension to space, and there is room for an indefinite number of universes, all alongside of each other, as there is for an indefinite number of sheets of paper when we pile them upon each other ".

Like It's a Wonderful Life, The Big Time, and many other time travel stories using this concept, it is clear that these alternative presents / futures are mutually exclusive with the protagonists ' own — so, strictly speaking, the universes are not parallel in that they cannot co-exist, rather they oscillate between one or the other.

Like his previous works, the theme is very much morality, even where the stories themselves have a tendency to describe rather immoral behaviour.

Like other early science fiction writers of the period, he was influenced by the stories of Jules Verne, whose technological adventure novels had become popular in translation in the rapidly modernising Meiji era Japan.

Like most of the Man-Kzin Wars short stories, its canonicity is unknown.

Like those of Miss Lemon and Arthur Hastings, the role of Inspector Japp in Poirot's career has been exaggerated by adaptations of Christie's original novels ; specifically by the TV series Agatha Christie's Poirot, where these characters are often introduced into stories that did not originally feature them.

Like the two Troubles stories it was collected as a graphic novel in 1990, but religious protests led to it being quickly withdrawn from sale, apparently on the orders of publisher Robert Maxwell.