Like the pillars of Hercules, like two ruined Titans guarding the entrance to one of Dante's circles, stand two great dead juvenile delinquents -- the heroes of the post-war generation: the great saxophonist, Charlie Parker, and Dylan Thomas.

Like Philadelphia's late Dr. Albert C. Barnes who kept his own great collection closed to the general public ( Time, Jan. 2 ), Thompson, at 61, is something of a legend in his own lifetime.

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 chess, backgammon has been studied with great interest by computer scientists.

Like Castro, Khrushchev felt that a US invasion of Cuba was imminent, and that to lose Cuba would do great harm to the communist cause, especially in Latin America.

Like other developing nations in the 1950s and ' 60s, Malaya ( and later Malaysia ) placed great stress on state planning, although UMNO was never a socialist party.

Like Fortran, Lisp has changed a great deal since its early days, and a number of dialects have existed over its history.

Like his famous predecessor Innocent III, he set his mind on the achievement of two great goals: the recovery of the Holy Land in the Fifth Crusade and a spiritual reform of the entire Church.

Like a growing number of aristocrats in the late 4th and early 5th centuries who were entering the clergy rather than taking up the more usual administrative careers in the imperial service, Paulinus spent a great deal of his money on his chosen church and city.

Like other mainline denominations, the PC ( USA ) has also seen a great deal of demographic aging, with fewer and fewer new members and a steadily declining membership total in every consecutive year since 1967.

Like many great players, Williams became impatient with ordinary athletes ' abilities and attitudes, particularly those of pitchers, whom he admitted he never respected.

Like the other Southern Arabian kingdoms it gained great wealth from the trade of frankincense and myrrh incense which were burned at altars.

Like modern corals, these ancestors built reefs, some of which ended as great structures in sedimentary rocks.

Like many others, the economic fortunes of Zhou's large family of scholar-officials were decimated by a great economic recession that China suffered in the late 19th century.

Like Rukmani Devi Tara trained under the great Vidwan Natya Kalandhi Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai.

Like patronage, unholy alliances are not necessarily illegal, but unlike patronage, by its deceptive nature and often great financial resources, an unholy alliance can be much more dangerous to the public interest.

Like any great cathedral, Lincoln has had its share of organists who have achieved international renown: perhaps the most famous is William Byrd, the Renaissance composer.

As teacher on this point, I shall produce to you the Sibyl prophetess :- ' Not the oracular lie of Phoebus, Whom silly men called God, and falsely termed Prophet ; But the oracles of the great God, who was not made by men's hands, Like dumb idols of Sculptured stone.

Like many nations in Mesopotamian history, Assyria was originally, to a great extent, an oligarchy rather than a monarchy.

Like most of their counterparts in the world, it is a vigorous species with a great ability to populate the habitat that is conducive.

Like most Flemish artists of the time he paid a great deal of attention to jewelry, edging of garments, and ornamentation in general.

Like all the great scholastic doctors he starts with the discussion of the relations between reason and faith.

Like Leo Bebb, Godric, a 12th century English saint, tells his story in the first person, and Buechner took great care to recreate the sounds and rhythm of his speech.

Like his colleagues and counterparts, Sumarokov extolled the legacy of Peter I, writing in his manifesto Epistle on Poetry, “ The great Peter hurls his thunder from the Baltic shores, the Russian sword glitters in all corners of the universe ”.

Like the majority of previous Haitian presidents, however, he failed to live up to his potential.

Like the majority of Belgians at that time, his family belonged to the Roman Catholic Church, though were not particularly devout.

" According to a later description, " Like all cultural watersheds, Ramones was embraced by a discerning few and slagged off as a bad joke by the uncomprehending majority.

Like the majority of her fellow Pantheon teammates, she had somewhat enhanced strength and agility.

Like many other technological innovations, each of several companies made an attempt to produce a television recording standard that the majority of the world would embrace.

Like most minority groups, homosexuals and bisexuals are not immune to prejudice or stereotypes from the majority group.

Like Cartoon Network, although the majority of Toon Disney's programming was animation, live-action programming had become a part of the network during its final years.

* The protagonist ( Gnossos Pappadopoulis ) in Richard Fariña's 1966 novel Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me believes his best friend to be named Heffalump for the majority of the novel, although Gnossos discovers in Cuba that Heffalump's birth name was Abraham Jackson White.

Like most of the rest of the Susquehanna Valley, Dauphin County was once reliably Republican, and the commissioner majority and all county row offices remain in Republican hands.

Like all counties in eastern Oregon, the majority of registered voters who are part of a political party in Wallowa County are members of the Republican Party.

Like the rest of eastern Oregon, the majority of registered voters who are part of a political party in Union County belong to the Republican Party.

Like all counties in eastern Oregon, the majority of registered voters who are part of a political party in Umatilla County are members of the Republican Party.

Like all counties in eastern Oregon, the majority of registered voters who are part of a political party in Morrow County are members of the Republican Party.

Like all counties in eastern Oregon, the majority of registered voters who are part of a political party in Harney County are members of the Republican Party.

Like all counties in eastern Oregon, the majority of registered voters who are party of a political party in Grant County are members of the Republican Party.

Like all counties in eastern Oregon, the majority of registered voters who are part of a political party in Baker County are members of the Republican Party.

Like the majority of Australians, Lawson lived in a city, but had had plenty of experience in outback life, in fact, many of his stories reflected his experiences in real life.

Like the 1950s Beat Generation before them, the vast majority of the urban folk revivalists shared a disdain for the values of mainstream American mass culture.

Like the majority of Australian languages, it does not make a distinction between voiced consonants ( such as b, d, g, etc.

Like Pym, he was in favour of the more legal and regular procedure by impeachment rather than by attainder, which at the later stage was supported by the majority of the Commons ; and through his influence a compromise was effected by which, while an attainder was subsequently adopted, Strafford's counsel were heard as in the case of an impeachment, and thus a serious breach between the two Houses, which threatened to cause the breakdown of the whole proceedings, was averted.

Like most seabirds, the majority of procellariids breed once a year.

Like the great majority of Irish-born scientists of the 19th century he opposed the Irish Home Rule Movement.

Like the secretary general, the sergeant-at-arms is elected by a majority of the members.

The majority of Moodring was co-written and co-produced by Mýa and was influenced by different subjects and music styling's including techno, pop rock, soul, hip-hop, r & b, quiet storm, etc. The first single, the Missy Elliott-produced " My Love Is Like ... Wo " became a smash hit and a summertime anthem for women.

Like its early membership, the majority of its current members are British engineers, but it also has members in more than 150 countries around the world.