Like Philadelphia's late Dr. Albert C. Barnes who kept his own great collection closed to the general public ( Time, Jan. 2 ), Thompson, at 61, is something of a legend in his own lifetime.

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 Niggle, Tolkien faced many chores and duties that kept him from the work he loved ; and like Niggle, Tolkien was a horrible procrastinator.

Like the samurai, ninja were born into the profession, where traditions were kept in, and passed down through the family.

Like the Scotch-Irish, the Germans kept to themselves and did not interfere with settlers of other backgrounds.

Like many small boroughs in Pennsylvania, North Wales is at " build out ", meaning that its boundaries have not kept up with population growth.

Like bentō boxes, jūbako are often kept stacked before and after use.

When he was the age of 3, in 1959, his parents divorced and he and his brothers were brought up by his maternal grandmother Alicia Acton ( born Chapman ; 1896 – 1968 ) until 1962, when his mother re-married Ernest W. Hook .. Like his band-mate Bernard Sumner, he took his step-father's surname, although in contrast of his friend he kept it, even more, he created his nickname, Hooky, from it.

Like many wild cats, they are occasionally kept as pets.

Like a chef zealously guarding the recipe of a sensational dish, Nanton kept the details of his technique a secret, even from his band mates, until his premature death.

Like all reptiles kept as pets, monitors need an appropriately sized enclosure, hiding places, and an appropriate substrate.

Like a supermarket, a delicatessen may also offer a selection of shelved food, often of the type that is not likely to be kept for more than a day.

Like Gilligan, Watts had spoken to Kelly on an unattributable basis, but unlike Gilligan, she had kept detailed verbatim notes of her conversations, and in one case a tape recording.

" Touch Me ( All Night Long )" stayed at # 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks, and was kept out of the # 1 spot by Hi-Five's " I Like The Way ( The Kissing Game )" in the first week, and Mariah Carey's " I Don't Wanna Cry " in the second week.

Like many other large, ostensibly paternalistic companies of the time, the Company employed a large number of employee spies who kept the company informed of employees ' activities ; in extreme cases, Company agents assaulted union organizers.

Like other aspects of research at Porton Down, precise details of animal experiments are generally kept secret.

Like previous years, the scheme included a reflector running in between both taillights above the bumper mounted license plate – a design feature kept for the second generation 1990 – 1997 Town Car.

Like the other Paracheirodon species, the green neon tetra is kept as an aquarium fish, but it is less commonly seen than either the true neon tetra or the cardinal tetra.

Like their Chinese and Western counterparts, they are thought to be spirits kept from a peaceful afterlife.

Like other add-on products from Commodore, their relatively small installed base relative to the huge installed base of the C64 made software developers hesitant to invest much time and effort in supporting it, and the lack of commercial support kept sales lower than they otherwise might have been.

In 2008, the cartoonist's son, Peter Key, talked about the origin of the character, " Like a lot of creative people, he kept a notepad near his bedside.

Like B-trees, this makes R-trees suitable for large data sets and databases, where nodes can be paged to memory when needed, and the whole tree cannot be kept in main memory.

Like most old-world chameleons, they must be kept individually in a screened enclosure, and provided with a basking light, and a source of UVB / UVA light.

Like NG La Banda, the charangueros had copious amounts of gear changes, song-specific tumbaos and attitude, but their musical style was drastically different and it kept changing and evolving with each album.

Like the other dynasties that rose out of the remains of the Abbasid Caliphate, the Ghaznavid administrative traditions and military practice came from the Abbasids.

Like all physicians in the Abbasid courts, they came from the Academy of Gundishapur in Persia ( in modern-day southwestern Iran ).

Like the earlier notion of the caliphate, the modern Islamic state is rooted in Islamic law.

Like the term " tyrant " ( which was originally a respectable Ancient Greek title ), and to a lesser degree " autocrat ", " dictator " came to be used almost exclusively as a non-titular term for oppressive, even abusive rule, yet had rare modern titular uses.

Like the titular character in Pierre, Melville found satisfaction in his " double revolutionary descent.

Patrol, opposite Nia Long, Tim Thomerson and Brian Keith ; Like Father Like Son ( 1987 ); White Water Summer with Kevin Bacon ( 1987 ), The War of the Roses ( 1989 ); the World War II film Memphis Belle ( 1990 ); Toy Soldiers ( 1991 ); Encino Man ( 1992 ); and the college football biopic Rudy ( 1993 ), about the life-changing struggles and rewards of the titular character, Daniel Ruettiger.

Like most villains in the series he desires the titular bird for its immortality granting blood, due to his desire to continue to lead and protect the Taira clan and lack of confidence in his successors, but winds up being tricked into buying an imported peacock instead.

Major supporting roles in the comedy Legally Blonde and the romantic comedy A Lot Like Love led her to lead roles as the titular character in Marigold and in the 2009 thriller Obsessed.

:* The Fahrenheit Twins ( 2005 ) also published ( without the titular story ) as Vanilla Bright Like Eminem

Like Yogi, the titular cousin eats ( often by theft ) copious amounts of other people's food ( including Barney ).

Like the Tsar, she was not a ruler.

Like right, the English words rule and ruler, deriving still from the same root, have both normative or regulatory and geometric meanings ( e. g. a ruler as in a king, or a ruler as in a straightedge ).

Like Nazi Germany, the Galactic Empire is a dictatorship based on rigid control of society that dissolved a previous democracy and is led by an all-powerful supreme ruler.

Like many a ruler of an Orthodox land before him, Ferdinand had a " dream of a new Byzantium ".

Like her brother, Berenice was a client ruler of the parts of the Roman Empire that lie in the present-day Syria.

Like the Count of Flanders, Edward in his role as the ruler of Gascony owed homage to the king of France, but as a king in his own right, and as the head of a largely autonomous Gascon province, was disinclined to do so.

Like the late ruler of Monaco, her second cousin, she is a great-grandchild of the Scottish aristocrat Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton, the first wife of Prince Albert I of Monaco, though Ira is descended from Lady Mary's second marriage with the Hungarian prince, Tassilo Festetics von Tolna.

Like his father and predecessor, Chandragupta II, Kumaragupta was an able ruler.

Like his father, he was a poet, was considered a sage, and had the reputation of being a fair ruler.

Like his neighbor Sihon of Heshbon, whom Moses had previously conquered at the battle of Jahaz he was an Amorite king, the ruler of Bashan, which contained sixty walled cities and many unwalled towns, with his capital at Ashtaroth ( probably modern Tell Ashareh, where there still exists a 70-foot mound ).

Exemplary of a comic dénouement is the final scene of Shakespeare ’ s comedy As You Like It, in which couples marry, an evildoer repents, two disguised characters are revealed for all to see, and a ruler is restored to power.

Like the Kirishitan daimyo, he realized that a military campaign against Japan's powerful ruler would bring catastrophe to Catholicism in Japan.

Like fellow conspirators Zhang Song and Fa Zheng, who also sought to hand Yi Province to a more capable ruler, Meng Da pledged his allegiance to Liu Bei when the latter invaded the province.

Like his predecessors, he was not an independent ruler, but a dependent of the Kingdom of Mercia.

Like the other Terrorcons, Battle Ravage is not an individual entity, but an unending army of drones which formerly existed as the army of the doomed Planet Q, consumed by Unicron and recreated from him by the planet's deranged ruler, Alpha Q using the power of Energon.

Like his predecessors, he was not an independent ruler, but a dependent of the Kingdom of Mercia.