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Like other fictional detectives, he is notable for extraordinary powers of observation and deduction ; and on at least one occasion, he has managed to escape being shot by catching a bullet in his teeth.
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Like the other policy-making groups, these are middle class in their educational attitudes, and they attempt to act in the general public interest, as they see it.
Like other scholars of his day ( such as Edward Tylor ), Morgan argued that human societies could be classified into categories of cultural evolution on a scale of progression that ranged from savagery, to barbarism, to civilization.
Like other character encodings, ASCII specifies a correspondence between digital bit patterns and character symbols ( i. e. graphemes and control characters ).
Like other groups, the members of this family show patterns in its electronic configuration, especially the outermost shells, resulting in trends in chemical behavior:
Like other abscesses, perianal abscesses may require prompt medical treatment, such as an incision and debridement or lancing.
Like other former States, Armenia's economy suffers from the legacy of a centrally planned economy and the breakdown of former Soviet trading patterns.
Like many other cross-channel linguistic acquisitions, many Britons readily took this up and followed this rule themselves, while the Americans took a simpler rule and applied it rigorously.
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 other children of the rich Meccan merchant families, Abu Bakr was literate and developed a fondness for poetry.
Like gregarines they are commonly parasites of the epithelial cells of the gut but may infect other tissues.
Like other benzodiazepines, it possesses anxiolytic properties, but, unlike other benzodiazepines, it does not have anticonvulsant, sedative, skeletal muscle relaxant, motor skill-impairing, or amnestic properties.
Like the other atypical antipsychotics, it is believed to have antagonist activity at dopamine and serotonin receptors in the brain.
Like many other buildings, it suffered extensive damage during the Second World War and had to be restored.
Like other Namibian Breweries beers, it is available in some of the neighbouring countries in Southern Africa, especially South Africa.
Like his father, Bayezid II was a patron of western and eastern culture and unlike many other Sultans, worked hard to ensure a smooth running of domestic politics, which earned him the epithet of " the Just ".
Like other Reconstructionist traditions, Celtic Reconstructionist Pagans emphasize historical accuracy.
Like all other horns of antelopes, the core of a bongo's horn is hollow and the outer layer of the horn is made of keratin, the same material that makes up human fingernails, toenails and hair.
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Like other ' hardboiled ' writers, Macdonald aimed to give an impression of realism in his work through violence, sex and confrontation ; this is illusory, however, and any real private eye undergoing a typical fictional investigation would soon be dead or incapacitated.
Like the letter from the fictional ' friend ' in the Biographia, it brilliantly suggests how a compressed fragment came to represent a much larger ( and even more mysterious ) act of creation.
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 ).
Like most technologies in the Star Trek fictional universe, the exact operation of shield technology is never precisely described.
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.
Like the Anthology project that it lampooned, it featured tracks ostensibly from all periods of the Rutles career, sequenced to reflect the fictional band's chronology.
* Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life is a fictional biography of William Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess first published in 1964.
He has been the subject of four notable biographies: the first, Man o ' War, by Page Cooper and Roger Treat, was published in 1950, and is a classic of its kind ; Walter Farley, author of The Black Stallion series, also wrote a slightly fictional biography of Man o ' War ; in 2000, Bowen, Edward L. wrote a biography called Man o ' War: Thoroughbred Legends from Eclipse Press ; and in 2006, Dorothy Ours wrote a new, extensively sourced biography entitled Man o ' War: A Legend Like Lightning.
Like Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow, Pokémon Gold and Silver are played from a top-down perspective, or third-person, with players directly navigating the protagonist around the fictional universe, interacting with objects and people.
Like the book series, the scripted live action series follows the lives of three teenage girls in training to compete in equestrian competitions at the fictional Pine Hollow Stables, while dealing with problems in their personal lives.
Like the first two films of the series, Martha's Vineyard was the location of the fictional Amity Island for the opening scenes of the film.
Like Stanislavski, Brecht disliked the shallow spectacle, manipulative plots, and heightened emotion of melodrama ; but where Stanislavski attempted to engender real human behavior in acting through the techniques of Stanislavski's system and to absorb the audience completely in the fictional world of the play, Brecht saw Stanislavski's methodology as producing escapism.
Like the later Three Colors: Blue, it showcased Preisner's musical score as a major plot element, crediting his work to the fictional Van den Budenmayer.
Like Atlantis and El Dorado, the land of Cockaigne was an utopia, a fictional place where, in a parody of paradise, idleness and gluttony were the principal occupations.
Like Amery, the fictional character of James Deveraux is born to a distinctive British family, having MPs and Secretaries of State as relatives.
Like many other bands of the sub-genre, Thergothon have lyrics either directly referencing Lovecraft's fictional works, poetry, or around themes he promulgated.
Like the fictional character, Talyllyn was built in 1864, and has worked on its original railway since 1865.
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