Like Holmes, the American private eye rejects the social conventions of his time.

Like many games of its time, Asteroids contains several bugs that were mostly the result of the original programmers underestimating the game's popularity or the skill of its players.

" 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 the festival of Samhain, opposite Beltane on 31 October, Beltane was also a time when the Otherworld was seen as particularly close at hand.

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 tense, aspect is a way that verbs represent time.

Like most similar works of its time the journal was not written contemporaneously to the events it describes, but rather compiled many years later, much of it dictated.

Like many other tribes, the Helvetii did not have kings at the time of their clash with Rome but instead seem to have been governed by a class of noblemen ( Lat.

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

Like his brother, he maintained an extensive correspondence with leading Christian scholars of his time, most notably with the philosopher Ralph Cudworth, master of Christ's College, Cambridge.

Like many Dutch painters of his time, Jan van Goyen studied art in the town of Haarlem with Esaias van de Velde.

Another Channel 4 poll in 2001 named it the 23rd greatest film of all time ( the only comedy that came higher on this occasion was Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot, which was ranked 5th ).

Like mythos, legends are stories that are traditionally considered true, but are set in a more recent time, when the world was much as it is today.

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 most audiovisual timecodes such as SMPTE time code, it encodes only time of day, repeating each 24 hours.

Like its relatives, Odocoileus and Capreolus, the genera Alces gave rise to very few species which endured for long periods of time.

Like Noah, Deucalion is a wine maker or wine seller ; he is forewarned of the flood ( this time by Zeus and Poseidon ); he builds an ark and staffs it with creatures – and when he completes his voyage, gives thanks and takes advice from the gods on how to repopulate the Earth.

In January 2008, Abdul returned to the music charts for the first time in nearly 13 years with the single " Dance Like There's No Tomorrow ," the first track on the album Randy Jackson's Music Club Vol 1.

#*:" Like many others of his time ( he died just one year after the founding of institutional Unitarianism in America ), Jefferson was a Unitarian in theology, though not in church membership.

Like many other male genital piercings, it has a history of practice in gay culture in the twentieth century and became known outside that culture at the same time that body piercing began to emerge in popular culture in the late 1970s.

Like the JAM Auctioneers of past, each time that question was asked, another item would be added to the sale, thus enhancing the audience's and potential buyers ' perceived value of the purchase.

Like most Klingons, Martok had a disdain for Ferengi, which manifested itself in several refusals to even acknowledge Nog, who at the time was a Starfleet Cadet.

Like velocity, speed has the dimensions of a length divided by a time ; the SI unit of speed is the meter per second, but the most usual unit of speed in everyday usage is the kilometer per hour or, in the USA and the UK, miles per hour.

Like system dynamics, social dynamics is concerned with changes over time and emphasizes the role of feedbacks.

I crashed in a plane, I really damaged my brain / And then I layed in my bed with all this music in my head ./ The years have rolled by, I've watched the past die / But feelings remained like mercy much strained ./ Like a seed left unsown, like a leaf that was blown / Like a man who was blind, there was a lock on my mind ", but also his 1991 healing: " Then a man came to me and he held out the key / And the lock hinge was blown, I had never been alone ".

Like the ship and the ruins of London into which it crashed, Jack is left wrecked and disfigured, crippled and hooked to IV drips, reliant on a depowered Engineer for care.

Like Mrs. Dalloway, with her regrets about Peter Walsh, he had his moments of melancholy over a youth too well spent.

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 an abbot, after being confirmed in her office by the Holy See, an abbess is solemnly admitted to her office by a formal blessing, conferred by the bishop in whose territory the monastery is located, or by an abbot or another bishop with appropriate permission.

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

Like her mother and brother, who was widely worshiped at Troy, Artemis took the side of the Trojans.

(" I'm Like the Bluebird ") All the money is in the hands of Cora Hoover Hooper, the stylish, ruthless mayoress and her cronies-Comptroller Schub, Treasurer Cooley, and Police Chief Magruder.

Like other American tales of banshees, this legend does not connect her to any particular death ( aside, perhaps, from her own ).

Like her brother, Athelstan, Edith was devoted to the cult of Saint Oswald and was instrumental in introducing this cult into Germany after her marriage to the emperor.

Like Britain earlier, Spain left behind a plaque proclaiming her sovereignty.

Like all goddesses, images of Hera might show her wearing a diadem and a veil.

Like Snorri's Hel, she is terrifying to in appearance, black or dark in colour, usually naked, adorned with severed heads or arms or the corpses of children, her lips smeared with blood.

Like her birth date, Judith's date of death remains unknown.

Lucrece is also featured in William Shakespeare's 1594 long poem The Rape of Lucrece ; he also mentioned her in Titus Andronicus, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night ( Malvolio authenticates his fateful letter by spotting Olivia's Lucrece seal ).

Some of her best performances were in films such as Friends, The Mender of Nets, Just Like a Woman, and The Female of the Species.

Like most movie stars of the silent era, Pickford found her career fading as talkies became more popular among audiences.

Like Van Buren, she was raised in a Dutch home and never lost her distinct Dutch accent.

Like Athena, Minerva was born from the head of her father, Jupiter ( Greek Zeus ).

Like most female academics of her generation, Murray had received no formal training, instead being taught Egyptology by Flinders Petrie.

She has appeared in a number of television movies, including Like Mother, Like Son, Run a Crooked Mile, Heartsounds, The Gin Game ( based on the Broadway play ; reuniting her with Dick Van Dyke ), Mary and Rhoda, Finnegan Begin Again.

Like her doublet Europa, her origins were in the East, in her case at Colchis, the palace of the Sun ; she was given in marriage to King Minos of Crete.