Like much of Greater Vancouver, Burnaby has always had large ethnic and immigrant communities: to cite two examples, North Burnaby near Hastings Street has long been home to many Italian restaurants and recreational bocce games, while Metrotown's ever-sprouting condominium towers in the south have been fuelled in part by more recent arrivals from China ( Hong Kong and Macau ), Taiwan, South Korea, and the former Yugoslavia.

Like most Philadelphia neighborhoods, the housing stock is primarily made up of rowhouses, although new development in recent times has brought apartment and condominium complexes.

) Like the central processing unit ( CPU ) in a modern computer, the mill would rely upon its own internal procedures, to be stored in the form of pegs inserted into rotating drums called " barrels ", to carry out some of the more complex instructions the user's program might specify.

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

Like any mountainous country, Lebanon's physical geography is complex.

Like a complex musical chord it's got to have a smooth surface but it doesn't matter what's happening underneath.

Like most social systems, health systems are complex adaptive systems where change does not necessarily follow rigid epidemiological models.

Like many other parasite infections, the course of Echinococcus infection is complex.

Like Henry Ford — a contemporary of Sloan with a rather special relationship to him as the other " head man " of an automotive colossus — Sloan is remembered today with a complex mixture of admiration for his accomplishments, appreciation for his philanthropic legacy and unease or reproach about his attitudes during the interwar period and World War II.

Like many natural products, lanolin is complex and variable in composition.

Like all languages, a pattern language has vocabulary, syntax, and grammar ; but a pattern language is applied to some complex activity other than communication.

Like many hydrocarbon products, they are products of a refining process in which a complex soup of chemicals is broken into another range of chemicals, which are then graded and isolated mainly by their specific gravity and volatility.

Like most unrefined drugs from plant or animal origin, the constituent base for echinacea is complex, consisting of a wide variety of chemicals of variable effect and potency.

Like all other Northwest Caucasian languages, Abkhaz has an extremely complex ( polysynthetic ) verbal system coupled with a very simple noun system ; Abkhaz distinguishes just two cases, the nominative and the adverbial.

Like all Algonquian languages, it has complex agglutinative morphology.

) Like all T cells, they express the T cell receptor-CD3 complex.

Like the eutherian ruminants of the northern hemisphere ( sheep, cattle, and so on ), macropods have specialised digestive systems that use a high concentration of bacteria, protozoans, and fungi in the first chamber of a complex stomach to digest plant material.

Like many parasites, the life cycle of opalines is rather complex.

Like Freud, Bleuler believed that complex mental processes could be unconscious.

Like all essential oils, it is not a pure compound ; it is a complex mixture of naturally occurring phytochemicals, including linalool and linalyl acetate.

Like all quadratic fields it is a Galois extension of Q with Galois group cyclic of order two, in this case generated by complex conjugation, and is thus an abelian extension of Q, with conductor 4.

Like complex numbers rotations in two dimensions are commutative, unlike in higher dimensions.

Like many other suffragists, Gage considered abortion a regrettable tragedy, although her views on the subject were more complex than simple opposition.

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 Improv, Quantrix has been adopted primarily by the financial industry, where its ability to manipulate various “ categories ” or " dimensions " makes it easy to view forecasts, budgets, risk analysis, financial projections and all types of complex data modeling.

Like his creation the Necronomicon, Alhazred is often referenced in works that are not generally considered part of the Cthulhu Mythos, either as a subtle nod to Lovecraft or to create a connection to his world.

Like Bernini's characteristic works, they often express the Baroque aesthetic of depicting dramatic attitudes and emotional expressions, yet Algardi's sculpture has a restraining sobriety in contrast to those of his rival.

Like filial piety, however, loyalty was often subverted by the autocratic regimes of China.

Like the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment, the double-slit experiment is often used to highlight the differences and similarities between the various interpretations of quantum mechanics.

Like the gladius, the pugio was most often used as a thrusting ( stabbing weapon ).

Like Encarta, the Britannica has been criticised for being biased towards United States audiences ; the United Kingdom-related articles are updated less often, maps of the United States are more detailed than those of other countries, and it lacks a UK dictionary.

Like its dada and surrealist predecessors, French New Wave editing often drew attention to itself by its lack of continuity, its demystifying self-reflexive nature ( reminding the audience that they were watching a film ), and by the overt use of jump cuts or the insertion of material not often related to any narrative.

* 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 gay and lesbian individuals, bisexual people who pretend to be heterosexual are often referred to as being closeted.

Like Beethoven, Brahms was fond of nature and often went walking in the woods around Vienna.

Like every manuscript, each manuscript book of hours is unique in one way or another, but most contain a similar collection of texts, prayers and psalms, often with appropriate decorations, for Christian devotion.

Like a lot of other factors in antiquity, quality gynecological care often depended heavily on the socioeconomic status of the patient.

Like other mammals in the Metatheria, they are characterized by giving birth to relatively undeveloped young, often residing in a pouch with the parent for a certain time after birth.

" Like their madrigal cousins, Renaissance motets developed in episodic format, with separate phrases of the source text being given independent melodic treatment and contrapuntal development ; contrapuntal passages often alternate with monody.

Like many of the medieval towns of Tuscany, Montalcino experienced long periods of peace and often enjoyed a measure of prosperity.

Like other dynamic languages, Python is often used as a scripting language, but is also used in a wide range of non-scripting contexts.

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 pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis.

Like lynchings, race riots often had their roots in economic tensions or in white defense of the color line.

Like farce, screwball comedies often involve mistaken identities or other circumstances in which a character or characters try to keep some important fact a secret.

Like the pioneering Bronx crews of DJs Kool Herc, Afrika Bambataa and Grandmaster Flash, the soundsystems provided party music for public spaces, often in the economically deprived council estates from which some of their members originated.

Like the gram and the kilogram, the tonne gave rise to a ( now obsolete ) force unit of the same name, the tonne-force, equivalent to about 9. 8 kilonewtons: a unit also often called simply " tonne " or " metric ton " without identifying it as a unit of force.

Like many other people suffering from pain disorders, those afflicted with vulvodynia may often be impacted by the frustration of finding a diagnosis, subsequently confronted with an area of medicine that is still in relative infancy.

Like Alice in Wonderland, he often finds that specific terminology has no more ( or no less ) meaning than the individual orator intends it to have.