Like the rest of the Salish Sea and surrounding regions, the climate of the Strait is disputed, with the Köppen system classifying it as Mediterranean, but most regional climatologists preferring oceanic.

The controversy surrounding her marketing of sexuality began with the video for " Lucky Star ", and amplified over time due to clips such as " Like a Virgin ".

Like the park, Lagunitas-Forest Knolls and the surrounding environs are lushly vegetated with large areas of coniferous forests.

Like Tunica County in the northern part of the state, Biloxi and the surrounding Gulf Coast region was considered a leading gambling center in the Southern United States.

Like much of the North Country Region of New York State, Heuvelton and the surrounding region has seen hard economic times over the last number of years as manufacturing jobs are moved to other regions or offshore.

Like many of the surrounding towns ( Pittston, Hughestown, Old Forge ), Duryea lost population when the need for deep-mined coal diminished.

Like other surrounding areas in Fairfax County, Dunn Loring is an affluent neighborhood with the median income for a household in the CDP at $ 93, 896, and the median income for a family at $ 96, 464.

Like the formal art surrounding matcha, there is a formal art surrounding sencha, which is distinguished as.

Like their previous albums, Catch Without Arms was a concept album ; however, differing from the concrete stories and events surrounding their earlier releases, Catch Without Arms was about opposites, mainly focused on positives and negatives.

Like much of the rest of the Balkans, Dyrrachium and the surrounding Dyrraciensis provinciae suffered considerably from barbarian incursions during the Migrations Period.

Like Venom, he can make his symbiote look like normal clothing ( which he has done on rare occasion ), or act as " camouflage ", blending him into the surrounding environment ( which he has never done thus far ).

Like most of the lore surrounding Gasparilla, however, this story is apocryphal, as the above references to recognizable variants of the name predate the buccaneer's supposed reign.

Like those of other cnidarians, the individual polyps have a cylindrical body crowned by a ring of tentacles surrounding the mouth.

* The celebrity quiz show " It's Only TV, But I Like It " used a version of the test card replacing the scene with the host Jonathon Ross and regular team captains Julian Clary and Phill Jupitus surrounding the chalkboard as a promotional image.

Like the surrounding states of Maryland and Virginia and others to the South, Washington, DC was a " slave society ," as defined by the historian Ira Berlin in his Many Thousands Gone: A History of Two Centuries of American Slavery.

Like much of the surrounding area, Westport received a large number of Irish immigrants in the 1840s through the 1860s, following the Great Famine.

Like ' Grimsby ' the etymology of the word Scartho can be traced back to having Old Norse origin, more than likely due to the ancestry of the surrounding area.

Like most of the Tharsis region, Pavonis Mons has a high albedo ( reflectivity ) and low thermal inertia, indicating that the volcano and surrounding areas are covered with large amounts of fine dust ( see Martian surface ).

Like most of the Tharsis region, Ascraeus Mons has a high albedo ( reflectivity ) and low thermal inertia, indicating that the volcano and surrounding areas are covered with large amounts of fine dust.

Like the exceptionalism surrounding HIV testing, genetic exceptionalism is based on the belief that the average person needs a licensed health professional to guide and support him through the discovery of information with health implications, even if this information is common knowledge, such as that he has red hair, which is associated with a higher risk of sunburns and skin cancer.

Like other Shyamalan productions, this film had high levels of secrecy surrounding it, needed to protect the expected twist ending that was a known Shyamalan trademark.

Like many surrounding areas, Featherstone grew around coal mining, and was the site of a miners ' strike in 1893.

Like other lamnid sharks, the shortfin mako has a heat exchange circulatory system that allows the shark to be 7 – 10 ° F ( 4 – 7 ° C ) warmer than the surrounding water.

Like in the other Balkan countries it is a major substitute for all other kinds of cheese, especially in pizzas.

Like so many other Balkan immigrants, a large number ( almost 10, 000 ) returned to their homeland after World War I.

Like many other Balkan folk dances, each region or village has its own version of the dance.

Like in France, immigrants from these countries started to study and live in Belgium.

Like other Namibian Breweries beers, it is available in some of the neighbouring countries in Southern Africa, especially South Africa.

Like all Central American countries, Costa Rica is considered part of a biodiversity hotspot.

Like other countries in Oceania, Solomon Islands is a beneficiary of Cuban medical aid ; bilateral relations between Havana and Honiara must be viewed within the scope of Cuba's regional policy in Oceania.

Like other countries in Oceania, Tuvalu is a beneficiary of Cuban medical aid ; bilateral relations between Funafuti and Havana must be viewed within the scope of Cuba's regional policy in Oceania.

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 many post-Soviet countries, Georgia went through a period of sharp economic decline during 1990s, with high inflation and large budget deficits, due to persistent tax evasion.

Like the other Nordic countries Sweden has a high rate of gun ownership, due to the popularity of hunting.

Like the mandola, it had counterparts in Assyria ( pandura ), the Arab countries ( dambura ), and Ukraine ( kobza-bandura ).

Nevins ' remix of " It's Like That " hit number 1 in the United Kingdom, Germany, and many other European countries.

Like in other countries, the soap opera met with negative reviews but eventually proved critics wrong with nearly 13 million viewers tuning in each week.

Like most of the country's boundaries with the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ), Oman, and the Republic of Yemen ( formerly two separate countries: the Yemen Arab Republic or North Yemen ; and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen or South Yemen ) are undefined, so the exact size of the country remains unknown.

Like many countries in the world today, there are three separate branches of government: the legislature, executive and judiciary, though not necessarily meaning that there is a separation of power.

Both countries are members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the Like Minded Group, and the Group of 77 ; these relations strengthened when Sudan declared its support for Pakistan in the Indo-Pakistani Wars.

Like other developing countries, Vanuatu is particularly interested in enterprises that add value to local primary products and that provide employment.

Like most Latin American countries, Venezuela has an unequal distribution of wealth.

Like most other countries, New Zealand was hard hit by the Great Depression of the 1930s, which affected the country via its international trade, with farming export drops then going on to affect the money supply and in turn consumption, investment and imports.

Like Aruba, the islands Curaçao and Sint Maarten became constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Like most Caribbean countries, all students are required to wear a school uniforms except in tertiary education institutes.

Like the other countries from the Balkans, Bulgaria's population is very conservative when it comes to issues like sexuality.

Like the Islamic countries, Turkey's population is very conservative, too, when it comes to issues like sexuality.

Like other Latin American countries, Ecuadorian music includes local exponents of international styles: from opera, salsa and rock to cumbia, thrash metal and jazz.

Like the other Balearic Islands of Ibiza, Formentera and Minorca, the island is a highly popular holiday destination, particularly for tourists from the United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland and the Scandinavian countries.

Like in other countries, Bolivia ’ s electricity sector consists of a National Interconnected System ( SIN ) and off-grid systems ( known as the Aislado ).

Like in western countries and other countries of the world, it has been harvested by the use of harvesters.