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 forebears he lives for part of the year in the palace, with his family occupying the same suite of rooms as the 1st Duke and Duchess.

He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.

Like his contemporary, director John Ford, Capra defined and aggrandized the tropes of mythic America where individual courage invariably triumphs over collective evil.

* " John Wyndham: No Place Like Earth ", programme on BBC Radio 4, 11. 30 am, 12 November 2010

Like previous kings, John managed a peripatetic court that travelled around the kingdom, dealing with both local and national matters as he went.

* John Locke: Like Hobbes, described a social contract theory based on citizens ' fundamental rights in the state of nature.

Like Mississippi John Hurt, he was welcomed into the music scene of the 1960s and played at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964, the New York Folk Festival in July 1965, and the October 1967 European tour of the American Folk Festival along with Skip James and Bukka White.

" ( The two had co-starred in the film Spies Like Us, another film in which Aykroyd had hopes, which Belushi's death had dashed, that John Belushi would co-star with him.

*" Number 12 Looks Just Like You " ( co-written with John Tomerlin )

Like Garrick before him, John Philip Kemble had introduced more of Shakespeare's text, while still preserving the three main elements of Tate's version: the love story, the omission of the Fool, and the happy ending.

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.

Like Body and Soul, the film starred John Garfield.

At this time New Recruits Like Inchicore Republican John McGrath Joined Fianna Eireann, He would go on to be a high Ranking Member of Fianna Eireann. There was no one place that Na Fianna could claim as their Headquarters, and they depended on the use of old buildings that were in Republican ownership, or owned by Republican sympathisers.

She joined the Bristol Old Vic Company in January 1950, appearing as Phebe in As You Like It, Anni in Denis Cannan's Captain Carvallo and Belinda in John Vanbrugh's The Provok'd Wife.

Early blackface minstrels often said that their material was largely or entirely authentic to African-American culture ; John Strausbaugh, author of Black Like You, said that such claims were likely to be untrue.

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

Like Captain John Mason, not all these men actually lived on their land.

Like many other towns, this one went through name changes before its incorporation in 1781: " Saville " in 1768, " Corey's Town ", and then " Wendell ", for one of the Masonian Proprietors, John Wendell.

* John Howard Griffin ( 1920-1980 ), civil rights activist, author of the award-winning book, Black Like Me.

*" A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody " by John Steel

They recorded a session for BBC Radio 1's John Peel, which was released on Paul Smith's Blast First and Steve Shelley ’ s record label Smells Like Records.

Like Mike is a 2002 film fantasy sports-comedy film, directed by John Schultz and starring Lil ' Bow Wow, Morris Chestnut, Jonathan Lipnicki and Brenda Song.

* John Howard Griffin, who darkened his skin and travelled in the American South as a black man in 1959 to write Black Like Me.

And John Duttine played David Powlett-Jones in BBC TV's To Serve Them All My Days ( 1980 ), adapted by Andrew Davies from the eponymous novel and as Archie Carver in London Weekend Television's People Like Us ( 1977 ), adapted from the Avenue novels.

The band recorded two sessions for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show in 1990, and their popularity with the show's listeners saw them with three tracks in the Festive Fifty that year, with " Dreams Burn Down " and " Like a Daydream " at numbers 3 and 4 respectively, and " Taste " at number 25.