Like many automatic and semi-automatic weapons the M16 utilizes pressure from the propellant gases in the barrel to cycle the bolt of the firearm.

Like any other self-loading design without an external power supply, the action is cycled by the energy of the shot ; this sends the bolt back to the rear, ejecting the empty cartridge case and preparing for the next shot.

The charge tries to merge again, much like a lightning bolt moves from one charged object to another ( Like a positively charged cloud to the negatively charged ground or vice-versa ).

Like almost everybody else, he confused the heart, both as organ and as symbol, with the disturbed psyche, the deranged glands, and the jumpy central nervous system.

Like association football ( soccer ), it features a promotion and relegation system in every level.

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 any software detection system, some cheats are not detected by VAC and at times, the only effective anti-cheat solution is a human administrator watching an online game.

Like the Easter Island statues, there is plenty of speculation over how this was done by a society without machines or metal, but the generally accepted view is that the head and base were etched out of the ground by sharp adzes and picks ( possibly with the use of fire ), and carried to the assembly area by an elaborate system of ropes and logs.

Like many Austronesian languages, the verbs of the Philippine languages follow a complex system of affixes in order to express subtle changes in meaning.

Like its predecessor, Hexen II also used a hub system.

Like comets, chondritic asteroids are some of the oldest and most primitive materials in the solar system.

Like other opioids, such as oxycodone, hydromorphone, and diacetylmorphine ( heroin ), morphine acts directly on the central nervous system ( CNS ) to relieve pain.

Like most other crimes in the common law system, to be convicted of perjury one must have had the intention ( mens rea ) to commit the act, and to have actually committed the act ( actus reus ).

Like a number of Popes, Sixtus IV adhered to the system of nepotism.

Like on St. Kitts, high winds downed power and telephone lines, damaging the water system there.

Like virtually all governing institutions in mainland China, the politics of Shanghai is structured in a dual party-government system, in which the Communist Party Chief, officially termed the Communist Party of China Shanghai Municipal Committee Secretary ( currently Yu Zhengsheng ), outranks the Mayor ( currently Han Zheng ).

Like other parts of SDI, the sensor system initially was very large-scale, but after the Soviet threat diminished it was cut back.

Like system dynamics, social dynamics is concerned with changes over time and emphasizes the role of feedbacks.

Like its dual, the NOR operator ( a. k. a. the Peirce arrow or Quine dagger ), NAND can be used by itself, without any other logical operator, to constitute a logical formal system ( making NAND functionally complete ).

Like scutage, tallage was superseded by the subsidy system in the 14th century.

* Television Apparatus and the Like, US patent for Baird's colour television system, filed 1929 ( in UK, 1928 ). n

Like IPS, a purpose-built system, such as the well-known Top Layer IPS products, can detect and block denial of service attacks at much nearer line speed than a software based system.

Like any other Java program, they must be executed within a Java virtual machine ( JVM ) that integrates with the server's host operating system to provide an abstract platform-neutral environment.

Like the previous Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty maintained a civil service system by drafting officials through standardized examinations and recommendations to office.

Hua spearheaded what became known as the Two Whatevers, namely, “ Whatever policy originated from Chairman Mao, we must continue to support ,” and “ Whatever directions were given to us from Chairman Mao, we must continue to follow .” Like Deng, Hua wanted to reverse the damage of the Cultural Revolution ; but unlike Deng, who wanted to propose new economic models for China, Hua intended to move the Chinese economic and political system towards Soviet-style planning of the early 1950s.

Like the rest of the Salish Sea and surrounding regions, the climate of the Strait is disputed, with the Köppen system classifying it as Mediterranean, but most regional climatologists preferring oceanic.

Like most European empires, it was ethnically very diverse, but unlike most European empires, it was more of a system of tribute than a single system of government.

Like Lincoln, he can distinguish his relation to God from the constitutional responsibilities a questionable decision exacts of him.

Like Roosevelt, he can distinguish an attitude toward a Russian leader he may share with a host of Americans from the responsibilities diplomatic convention may impose upon him.

Like its long-lived cousin, the refrigerator, a conditioner can be expected to last 20 to 25 years or more.

Like ethanol, they can be produced by fermentation processes.

Like the other groups, examples of their music can be found on YouTube.

Like single covalent bonds, double bonds can be described in terms of overlapping atomic orbitals, except that, unlike a single bond ( which consists of a single sigma bond ), a carbon-carbon double bond consists of one sigma bond and one pi bond.

* Related-key attack: Like a chosen-plaintext attack, except the attacker can obtain ciphertexts encrypted under two different keys.

Like many other chorded keyboards, this keyboard can be used with one hand.

Like the 1571, it can read various other disk formats using special software.

Like knitting, crochet can be worked either flat or in the round.

Like other consonants, clicks can be described using four parameters: place of articulation, manner of articulation, phonation ( including glottalization ), and airstream mechanism.

Like resources, commodities are associated with a type of terrain, can be stolen by the robber ( with Seafarers, also the pirate ), count against the resource hand limit, and may not be collected if the robber is on the terrain.

Like other nitrogen-fixing bacteria, they can either be free-living or have symbiotic relationships with plants.

Also, Macdonald Carey's legendary line " Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives " can be considered an epigram, as the meaning of life is concisely explained in a simile.

Like Finnish and Hungarian, Estonian is a somewhat agglutinative language, but unlike them, it has lost the vowel harmony of the hypothetical Proto-Uralic language, although in older texts the vowel harmony can still be recognized.

Like Brooke, he is uncritical of the show's journalistic tactics ( although in the episode Judge and Jury, he has reservations about their persecution of a priest accused of rape, mainly because he is a lapsed Catholic ); in fact he is usually the confidante of the executive producers, and the one they can trust to do what is needed to get a good story, or to persuade Mike to present a story.

Like human beings, the jinn can also be good, evil, or neutrally benevolent.

Like grindcore, metalcore can feature breakdowns as well as intense passages conducive to moshing.

* Like the quasi-arithmetic means, the computation of the mean can be split into computations of equal sized sub-blocks.

Like its sister metal zirconium, finely divided hafnium can ignite spontaneously in air — similar to that obtained in Dragon's Breath.

Like bitted bridles, noseband-based designs can be gentle or harsh, depending on the hands of the rider.

Like IPv4, IPv6 supports globally unique static IP addresses, which can be used to track a single device's Internet activity.

Like Berkeley Bradley thought that nothing can be known to exist unless it is known by a mind.

Like other hemorrhagic fevers, Lassa fever can be transmitted directly from one human to another.

Like non-Latinos, a Latino can be of any race or combination of races: White / Caucasian, Black / African American, Asian, Native American, Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander American, or two or more races.