Like Napoleon, he was the worst of losers.

Like his volume on Wycliffe, the work was accompanied by the publication of a selected group of documents, in this case illustrative of the history of Queen Anne's reign down to 1707.

Like all Russians he was an emotional man, and in him the emotions warred.

Like the bell at Mass, the doorbell was pitched too high.

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 many regular army officers from the South he was opposed to secession, but resigned his commission soon after he heard of the secession of his adopted state Texas.

Like Achilles in a later generation, he was trained by the centaur Chiron.

Like Emerson, Alcott was always optimistic, idealistic, and individualistic in thinking.

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 his father, Alboin was raised a pagan, although Audoin had at one point attempted to gain Byzantine support against his neighbours by professing himself a Catholic.

Like other children of the rich Meccan merchant families, Abu Bakr was literate and developed a fondness for poetry.

Like many ancient historians, Ammianus had a strong political and religious agenda to pursue, however, and he contrasted Constantius II with Julian to the former's constant disadvantage ; like all ancient writers he was skilled in rhetoric, and this shows in his work.

" 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 his mother, neither he nor Christine sought a divorce for the next thirty years and it was only in 1997 that they formally divorced ; Ayckbourn married Heather Stoney.

Like the BBC Micro, the Electron was constrained by limited memory resources.

Like the previous, this Aeolus was said to have had had twelve children-six sons and six daughters.

In 2010, the Australian a cappella Quartet The Idea of North was nominated for an ARIA for their seventh studio album, " Feels Like Spring ", bringing a cappella music back into pop culture.

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 Galanthis, Historis announced that Alcmene had delivered her child ; having been deceived, the witches went away, allowing Alcmene to give birth.

In the summer of 2011, The Sundance Channel ( United States ) announced that Sherrié and her friend Shane Stevens would be on the second season of Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys, which will be filmed in Nashville and features women and their gay best friends.

In February, 2004, Mattel announced a split for Ken and Barbie, with Russell Arons, vice president of marketing at Mattel, saying that Barbie and Ken " feel it's time to spend some quality time – apart ... Like other celebrity couples, their Hollywood romance has come to an end ", though Arons indicated that the duo would " remain friends ".

Like its Fairfax stablemate The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age announced in early 2007 that it would be moving from a broadsheet format to the smaller Berliner size, in the footsteps of The Guardian and The Courier-Mail.

Originally to be called the " Like a Prayer World Tour ", Sire Records announced the Blond Ambition World Tour in November 1989, following the success of Madonna's fourth studio album, Like a Prayer, and Madonna's performance of " Express Yourself " at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards-considered as a tour preview.

Like Clark, he thus announced a new leadership campaign in which he would reoffer as a candidate, and John Reynolds became the party's interim leader.

Like its predecessor, the game was developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo, and was first announced in January 2001 by Japanese website WatchImpress.

Like their counterparts in the Chinese government, the Vietnamese government has never announced any information on its actual military casualties.

It was announced on January 11 that Sugarland was the No. 5 selling country album of 2010 with The Incredible Machine and the No. 3 selling digital country track of 2010 with their single " Stuck Like Glue ".

Drive Like Jehu never officially announced a breakup, but simply stopped playing together.

He was soon signed to German label Kodex / Sushia Light, and the resulting CD " Flicker Like a Candle " announced Stromkern to the club music scene.

Like the M2 version, D2 became the first officially announced game for a new console, the Dreamcast.

Pantsdown performed a remixed version of " I Don't Like It " at the 2011 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Party during Bob Downe's ' Retro-Gras ' DJ set just days before Hanson announced her candidacy in the 2011 NSW state election.

On 12 December 2006, the BBC announced that Strictly Dance Fever had been axed in favour of the Andrew Lloyd Webber talent search, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria ?.

After the poor chart performance of the second single I Think I Like It ( and even of the album itself ) all promotion was stopped, including the announced tour being cancelled.

Like the store at The Summit, it converted to a Belk by September 2007, although its conversion to flagship wasn't officially announced until November 2, 2007.

On the 13 Apirak announced in front of television cameras his resignation saying: " Like the Democrat Party, I support a move that will perpetuate politics-for-people ," he continued " I have complete confidence in my innocence.

Like the two Bop It Extreme games, Zing It has a maximum score of 250 and is announced by a horn, followed by a crowd clapping.

Like the other blade PC vendors, HP offers MS RDP with their solutions, and they have announced availability of another protocol called Remote Graphic Software that has some advantages over MS RDP, especially in regard to delivery of three-dimensional and streaming content.

Like Jehovah's Witnesses, Adventists use key phrases from the Bible, such as " For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten " ( Eccl.

Like Spike, he too is haunted by the memory of a woman, Alisa, his longtime girlfriend who left him without reason.

Like prior versions of Windows, Windows / 286 2. 1 used the real-mode memory model, but was the first version to support the High Memory Area.

* Like quicksort, merge sort on arrays has considerably better data cache performance, often outperforming heapsort on modern desktop computers because merge sort frequently accesses contiguous memory locations ( good locality of reference ); heapsort references are spread throughout the heap.

Record producer J Dilla produced the hip hop track " Thelonious " on rapper Common's album Like Water For Chocolate dedicated to Monk's music and memory and the influence of jazz on the underground hip hop community.

Like flash memory, EEPROM can maintain its contents when electrical power is removed.

Like the IAS machine, JOHNNIAC used 40-bit words, and included 1024 words of Selectron tube main memory, each holding 256 bits of data.

Like Crowther's original game, Woods ' game also executes with all its data in memory, but required somewhat less core memory ( 42k words ) than Crowther's game.

Like Beethoven in his last quartets, or Webern at almost any time, Gibbons is an artist of such intractable commitment that, in the keyboard field, at least, his works work better in one's memory, or on paper, than they ever can through the intercession of a sounding-board.

Like all SDRAM implementations, DDR2 stores data in memory cells that are activated with the use of a clock signal to synchronize their operation with an external data bus.

Like the Cyber series, the ETA-10 did not use vector registers as in the Cray machines, but instead used pipelined memory operations to a high-bandwidth main memory.

Like MRAM, flash does not lose its memory when power is removed, which makes it very common as a " hard disk replacement " in small devices such as digital audio players or digital cameras.

Like most memory card formats, SD is covered by numerous patents and trademarks.

Like its predecessor, The Adventure of Link allows storing up to three games in the cartridge's memory.

Like Continental Congress Secretary Charles Thomson, Otis had become the body's institutional memory at a time of great turnover among members.

Like most operating systems, Windows 9x consists of kernel space and user space memory.

Like the i432, the 960 MX included tagged memory for complete memory protection even within programs ( as opposed to most CPU's, which offer protection only between programs ), a full set of instructions for task control, and complex microcode to run it all.

Like HP 3000, except that compilers, not microcode, controlled when the register stack spilled to the memory stack or was refilled from the memory stack.

Like his namesake, he is a genius ; however, due to a chemical imbalance he exhibits a non-linear memory.