Like a particle drawn to a magnet he returned to that which was pressing so hard in his mind.

Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.

Like many others, he had to work hard, long hours in a struggling family business which, though it was allied to art of a kind -- the design and production of engraved seals -- bore no relation to the painting of pictures.

Like a wise gardener, Hardy pruned away the Shakespearian sonnets and songs, and the elements of meter and poetic diction to which his personal style was not suited, and let the main stock of his talent flourish.

" Like his brother Baldwin III, he was more of an academic than a warrior, who studied law and languages in his leisure time: " He was well skilled in the customary law by which the kingdom was governed – in fact, he was second to no one in this respect.

Like all early Germanic rulers, he was heavily involved in ecclesiastical disputes ; in 895, at the Diet of Tribur, he presided over a dispute between the Episcopal sees of Bremen, Hamburg and Cologne over jurisdictional authority, which saw Bremen and Hamburg remain a combined see, independent of the see of Cologne.

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.

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 von Seeckt, he concluded that France could no longer maintain the huge armies of conscripts and reservists with which World War I had been fought, and sought to use tanks, mechanised forces and aircraft to allow a smaller number of highly trained soldiers to have greater impact in battle.

Like the ocean which shapes them, coasts are a dynamic environment with constant change.

Also in 1983, he recorded tracks including " In England and In Africa " and " Sing Like Billy Bragg " which were used as a ‘ demo ’ to secure a further Peel Session in 1984, where he performed three songs including " Hands Together Eyes Closed ".

Like Plato, Aristotle believed in an eternal cosmos with no beginning and no end ( which in turn follows Parmenides ' famous statement that " nothing comes from nothing ").

Like sponges and ctenophores, cnidarians have two main layers of cells that sandwich a middle layer of jelly-like material, which is called the mesoglea in cnidarians ; more complex animals have three main cell layers and no intermediate jelly-like layer.

Like all stable distributions, the location-scale family to which the Cauchy distribution belongs is closed under linear transformations with real coefficients.

Like Western states of previous centuries, the new ex-colonies lacked autonomous bureaucracies, which would make decisions based on the benefit to society as a whole, rather than respond to corruption and nepotism to favor a particular interest group.

Like most state agencies, Caltrans maintains its headquarters in Sacramento, which is covered by District 3.

Like vacuum distillation, steam distillation is a method for distilling compounds which are heat-sensitive.

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 above description of the ineffable Tao as " the mother that rears the ten thousand creatures ", the Tao Te Ching advocates " female " ( or Yin ) values, emphasizing the passive, solid, and quiescent qualities of nature ( which is opposed to the active and energetic ), and " having without possessing ".

Like other Wiccans, Dianics may form covens, attend festivals, celebrate the eight major Wiccan holidays, Samhain, Beltane, Imbolc ( or Imbolg ), Lammas, the solstices and equinoxes ( see Wheel of the Year ) and the Esbats, which are rituals usually held at the full moon or dark moon.

Like DECT, DECT ULE standard uses the 1. 9 GHz band so suffers less interference than Zigbee, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, which all run on 2. 4 GHz.

Like the VOC, the company had five offices, called chambers ( kamers ), in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Hoorn, Middelburg and Groningen, of which the chambers in Amsterdam and Middelburg contributed most to the company.

Like the elementary charge on which it is based, it is not an independent quantity but is equal to ( 1 J / C )( 2 h α / μ < sub > 0 </ sub > c < sub > 0 </ sub >)< sup > 0. 5 </ sup > It is a common unit of energy within physics, widely used in solid state, atomic, nuclear, and particle physics.

Like spirits, the elves were not bound by physical limitations and could pass through walls and doors in the manner of ghosts, which happens in Norna-Gests þáttr.

Like some of his other epistles ( e. g., those to Corinth: 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians ), this seems to have been written in consequence of information which had been conveyed to Paul of the internal state of the church there by Epaphras.

Like all metal cations, Cs < sup >+</ sup > forms complexes with Lewis bases in solution.

Like other forms of bankruptcy, petitions filed under chapter 11 invoke the automatic stay of § 362.

Like all Greek forms, elegy was adapted by the Romans for their own literature.

Like other forms of statistical analysis, badly specified econometric models may show a spurious correlation where two variables are correlated but causally unrelated.

Like every partially ordered set, Open ( X ) forms a small category by adding a single arrow U → V if and only if.

Like silicon, germanium naturally reacts and forms complexes with oxygen in nature.

Like most rare earths, gadolinium forms trivalent ions which have fluorescent properties.

Like other forms of cardio focused exercise, interval training is also commonly used in indoor rowing.

Like alum-tawing, rawhide is not technically " leather ", but is usually lumped in with the other forms.

Like Dionysus, who inflamed the maenads, Poseidon also caused certain forms of mental disturbance.

Like other forms of evangelical Protestantism, Pentecostalism adheres to the inerrancy of scripture and the necessity of accepting Christ as personal lord and savior.

Like other forms of wordplay, paronomasia is occasionally used for its attention-getting or mnemonic qualities, making it common in titles and the names of places, characters, and organizations, and in advertising and slogans.

Like that of the related apple, the pear fruit is a pome, in most wild species 1 – 4 cm diameter, but in some cultivated forms up to 18 cm long and 8 cm broad ; the shape varies in most species from oblate or globose, to the classic pyriform ' pear-shape ' of the European pear with an elongated basal portion and a bulbous end.

Like monogamy, the term is often used in a de facto sense, applying regardless of whether the relationships are recognized by the state ( see marriage for a discussion on the extent to which states can and do recognize potentially and actually polygamous forms as valid ).

Like choreography, the direction is designed to meld Kabuki with Western forms ... the attempt is so bold and the achievement so fascinating, that its obvious faults demand to be overlooked.

Like the divide that occurred within the black civil rights movement, the late 1960s and the 1970s brought a new generation of activists, many of whom felt that the gay rights movement needed to endorse a larger and more radical agenda to address other forms of oppression, the Vietnam War, and the sexual revolution.

Like his renowned father Alessandro Scarlatti he composed in a variety of musical forms, although today he is known mainly for his 555 keyboard sonatas.

Like all forms of literary criticism, psychoanalytic criticism can yield useful clues to the sometime baffling symbols, actions, and settings in a literary work ; however, like all forms of literary criticism, it has its limits.

Like other Austronesian languages, Tetum has two forms of " we ", ami ( equivalent to Indonesian and Malay kami ) which is exclusive, e. g. " I and they ", and ita ( equivalent to Indonesian and Malay kita ), which is inclusive, e. g. " you, I, and they ".

Like all forms of inflammation, it can be associated with an appropriate response of the body to an infection, but it also occurs in the absence of infection.

Like all other forms of electromagnetic radiation, infrared is utilized by astronomers to study the universe.

Like arsenic, antimony generally forms compounds in which it has an oxidation state of + 3 or + 5.

Like many deities of ancient Egypt he takes many forms, through one of his particular aspects or through syncretism of ancient deities of the Memphite region.

Like other forms of chromatography, increasing the column length will enhance the resolution, and increasing the column diameter increases the capacity of the column.