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.

In addition to feature films, he directed episodes of the television shows Homicide: Life on the Street, four episodes of The Sopranos, as well as two episodes of HBO's prison-drama series Oz, entitled " U. S. Male " and " Cuts Like a Knife ".

Like many Oz novels for adults, Farmer's Oz is a darker, more threatening place and in this case it is on the brink of both a civil war and an invasion by the United States Army.

Like Tik-Tok, Scarecrow contains a significant romantic element — the Rose Princess and Private Files in the former, and Gloria and Pon in the latter — that was not typical of the earlier Oz books.

Like the Munchkin Country, the outer regions of the Quadling Country are rich, pleasant and beautiful, inhabited by kind and friendly people, while the areas closer to the Emerald City ( i. e. most of the regions between the mountains of the Hammer-Heads and the Forest of the Fighting Trees ) are forbidding and dangerous ( see " The Wonderful Wizard of Oz " section below ).

Like all the countries of Oz, the Quadling Country contains various unusual sights and places.

Like all the countries of Oz, the Winkie Country contains various unusual inhabitants and places.

Like all of the countries of Oz, the Gillikin Country contains various unusual sights and places.

One passage in The Road to Oz, by Baum himself, wherein the Woodman attends Ozma's birthday party accompanied by a Winkie band playing a song called " There's No Plate Like Tin ," strongly implies that this is the case.

He frequently invited director Frank Oz to play small parts in his movies, and others such as Roger Vadim, Paul Mazursky, Jim Henson, Jonathan Demme, and David Cronenberg in Into the Night ; Terry Gilliam, Joel Coen, Michael Apted in Spies Like Us ; Sam Raimi in Spies Like Us and Innocent Blood ; George Lucas in Beverly Hills Cop III ; Steven Spielberg in Blues Brothers ; Dario Argento in Innocent Blood ; and Costa-Gavras in The Stupids.

Like Maguire's novel, the film The Wizard of Oz combined the Witch of the South and the Witch of the North into one character, Glinda: The Good Witch of the North.

Like the other two girls, she rejects the position, but, again like her fellows, she eventually finds herself ruling a province of Oz, albeit a different one than Madame Morrible had suggested.

Like as if it were built of books ''.

Like the Roman Catholic deuterocanonical books, these texts are integrated with the rest of the Old Testament, not printed in a separate section.

* A Far Off Place, film, starring Reese Witherspoon and Ethan Randall, based on the books A Story Like the Wind and A Far Off Place by Laurens Van Der Post

Like the Christian libraries, they mostly contained books which were made of paper, and took a codex or modern form instead of scrolls ; they could be found in mosques, private homes, and universities, from Timbuktu to Afghanistan and modern day Pakistan.

( Like other World of Darkness games, Mage uses a continuing storyline across all of its books ).

The article was republished in two of his books, Republican Party Reptile ( 1987 ) and Driving Like Crazy ( 2009 ).

" Like Shakespeare, her work has been the subject of reams of criticism and many books.

Like Austen's heroines, Harry often has to re-examine his ideas near the ends of books.

Like the other books in the series, West End Games created for this novel a role-playing game sourcebook that expanded on Zahn's characters, locations, weapons, and other facts.

Like Dean Koontz, McCammon also now refuses to let his first ( up to and including They Thirst ) novels be republished because, while not disliking the books, he does not feel that they are up to the standards of his later works.

Like many of Garner's books, the novel is set in the real landscape of Cheshire, in this case focused around Alderley Edge, and features the fictional characters interacting at genuine sites, such as the sandstone escarpment of the Edge, the Wizard's Well, the open mine pits, and the Beacon.

Many of his books were filmed, including Lonely Road, Landfall, Pied Piper ( 1942 and 1990 ( as " Crossing to Freedom ")), On the Beach ( in 1959 and also in 2000 ), No Highway ( in 1951 ) and A Town Like Alice ( in 1956 ).

Like the Bodleian Library at Oxford, the UU Library features chained books – although at Oxford this is done to protect the books from the students, whereas at UU it is done to protect the students from the books.

Like the Villains and Vigilantes comic mini-series, the early issues printed character sheets which allowed readers to incorporate characters used in the comic books in their own Champions campaigns.

Like Shah's other books on the topic, The Sufis was conspicuous for avoiding terminology that might have identified his interpretation of Sufism with traditional Islam.

Related to this are books such as " Black Like Me " by John Howard Griffin, in which a white novelist dyed his skin black and traveled the southern United States, and " Self-Made Man " by Norah Vincent, a woman who dressed and passed herself off as a man.

Like Browne and Pepys, Evelyn was a lifelong bibliophile, and by his death his library is known to have comprised 3, 859 books and 822 pamphlets.

Like his other books, it was published as printed sheets from etched plates containing prose, poetry, and illustrations.

Like Zhuang, Zhong may also be the short form of Buzhuang, which Zhuang people use to refer to themselves, as the pronunciation of Zhong and Zhuang is similar, and Zhong was once a variant form of Zhuang in the Han Chinese historical books.

Like most pulp magazines, Weird Tales suffered from the newsprint shortage during World War II, and after the War from increasing competition from comic books, radio drama, television and paperback books.

The books released so far are West Coast Blues ( Le Petit bleu de la côte ouest ), You Are There ( Ici Même ), It Was the War of the Trenches ( C ' était la guerre des tranchées ), Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot ( La Position du tireur couché ) and The Arctic Marauder ( Le Démon des glaces ); two albums collecting the first four Adele Blanc-Sec volumes have also been published.