Like Tallboy, Grand Slam had not been designed to directly penetrate concrete roofs and tended to detonate prematurely or break up, but nonetheless they were still far more effective than any existing bomb.

Like the recent Scheherazade from London ( High Fidelity, Sept. 1961 ), it is successful because emphasis has been placed on good musical and engineering practices rather than on creating sensational effects.

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 the rest of the world, social mobility in modern England-and Europe-has increased because of industrialization, economic growth, access to knowledge, and cultural transformations.

* Like terms are added together, for example, is written as, because the terms containing are added together, and, the terms containing are added together.

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.

* Major George Ashley Wilkes: The gallant Ashley married his cousin, Melanie, because " Like must marry like or there'll be no happiness.

Like monkeys or small children turned loose among treasured objects whose value is beyond their comprehension, they ran wild — either from perverse pleasure in destruction or simply because of their ignorance.

Like other early microcomputer versions of BASIC, GW-BASIC lacked many of the structures needed for structured programming such as local variables, and GW-BASIC programs executed relatively slowly, because it was an interpreted programming language.

Like the Avars after them, once the Hun political unity failed there was no way to re-create it, especially because the Huns had become a multiethnic empire even before Attila.

* 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.

Like Augustine, Isidore accepted the necessity of the Jewish presence because of their expected role in the anticipated Second Coming of Christ.

Like Einstein, Schrödinger was dissatisfied with the concept of entanglement, because it seemed to violate the speed limit on the transmission of information implicit in the theory of relativity.

Like traffic merging on a highway, the water flow is constricted in both directions because it must pass over the Camarinal Sill.

Like the emperors of the Sui Dynasty before him, Taizong established a military campaign in 644 against the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo in the Goguryeo-Tang War ; however, this led to its withdrawal in the first campaign because they failed to overcome the successful defense led by General Yeon Gaesomun.

Like all crustaceans, crayfish are not kosher because they are aquatic animals that do not have both fins and scales.

Like their English and Welsh counterparts, then, the parks in Scotland are effectively " managed landscapes ", and are classified as IUCN Category V Protected Landscapes because of this.

Like the Yellow River, the Hai is exceedingly muddy because of the powdery soil through which it flows.

Like most other characters, Danny is most often rude to his elders, on one occasion asking Smiffy to speak up because he couldn't hear him over ' teacher '.

Like gunpowder, cordite is classified as a low explosive because of its slow burning rates and consequently low brisance.

The Stars, Like Dust states explicitly that the Earth is radioactive because of a nuclear war.

Like Dean Koontz, McCammon also now refuses to let his first ( up to and including They Thirst ) novels be republished because, while not disliking the books, he does not feel that they are up to the standards of his later works.

Like many of Australia's deserts, rainfall does seem high by desert standards, because even in the driest parts rainfalls rarely drop below.

Like Pluto, Dis Pater eventually became associated with death and the underworld because the wealth of the earth — gems and precious metals — was considered in the domain of the Greco-Roman underworld.

Like The King in Yellow, Salomé was originally written in French before being translated ; it was then banned in Britain because of its scandalous reputation.

Like many less well used stations in inner London, Camberwell Gate and Camberwell New Road were closed in 1916 ' temporarily ' because of war shortages and were never reopened.

Like zinc, it prefers oxidation state + 2 in most of its compounds and like mercury it shows a low melting point compared to transition metals.

Like the larger 74 which was developed at the same time, the new frigates sailed very well and were good fighting vessels due to a combination of long hulls and low upperworks compared to vessels of comparable size and firepower.

Like most leaf eaters they adjust for the low nutrient content of their food by long rests.

Like other CIS republics, Turkmenistan has established an Environmental Fund based on revenues collected from environmental fines, but the fines generally are too low to accumulate significant revenue.

Like all thin clients, when using X across a network, bandwidth limitations can impede the use of bitmap-intensive applications that require rapidly updating large portions of the screen with low latency, such as 3D animation or photo editing.

Like the magnetic approach, the fusion fuel is confined at low density by magnetic fields while it is heated into a plasma, but like the inertial confinement approach, fusion is initiated by rapidly squeezing the target to dramatically increase fuel density, and thus temperature.

* Like random noise, the local sequence has a very low correlation with any other sequence in the set, or with the same sequence at a significantly different time offset, or with narrow band interference, or with thermal noise.

Like LSD, mescaline induces distortions of form and kaleidoscopic experiences but which manifest more clearly with eyes closed and under low lighting conditions ; however, all of these visual descriptions are purely subjective.

Like all comets, as Halley nears the Sun, its volatile compounds ( those with low boiling points, such as water, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and other ices ) begin to sublime from the surface of its nucleus.

Like all other surface features, sea breeze fronts lie inside troughs of low pressure.

Like most plant-based foods, lychees are low in saturated fat and sodium and are cholesterol free.

Like most Bantu languages, Xhosa is a tonal language, that is, the same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meanings when said with a rising or falling or high or low intonation.

Like the Crusoe ( a 128-bit VLIW architecture ), Efficeon stressed computational efficiency, low power consumption, and a low thermal footprint.

Like Lear's other television works, it received positive reviews, but ratings were low due to the network's focus on their core high-rated programming at the time.

Like all marsh harriers, it favours open, wet environments, and is frequently seen drifting low over ricefields, interspersing long, watchful circling glides with two or three slow, powerful wingbeats.

Like other angullids, short-finned eels are remarkably hardy: they can tolerate high water temperatures and low oxygen concentrations, endure long periods without food, and bury themselves in mud or sand and enter an energy-saving torpor when the water temperature drops below 10 ° C.

Like all rare earth metals, praseodymium is of low to moderate toxicity.

Like type 2A, the RiCof: vWF antigen assay is low when the patient's platelet-poor plasma is assayed against formalin-fixed, normal donor platelets.

Like the rest of Australia, the seas around Gippsland are of very low productivity as there is no upwelling due to the warm currents in the Tasman Sea.

Like other wagtails, they frequently wag their tail and fly low with undulations and they have a sharp call that is often given in flight.

In Kotov's 1971 book Think Like a Grandmaster, he described a situation when a player thinks very hard for a long time in a complicated position but does not find a clear path, then running low on time quickly makes a poor move, often a blunder.

Like many owls, these birds have excellent hearing and exceptional vision in low light.