Like many ancient historians, Ammianus had a strong political and religious agenda to pursue, however, and he contrasted Constantius II with Julian to the former's constant disadvantage ; like all ancient writers he was skilled in rhetoric, and this shows in his work.

Like other ' hardboiled ' writers, Macdonald aimed to give an impression of realism in his work through violence, sex and confrontation ; this is illusory, however, and any real private eye undergoing a typical fictional investigation would soon be dead or incapacitated.

Like Zurich, New York City was a refuge for writers and artists from World War I.

Like many other Christian writers, he also claims that heresy began with Simon Magus, a figure whom receives mention in Acts 8: 9-13 for being a magician from the city of Samaria.

Like many Egyptian writers and intellectuals, Mahfouz was on an Islamic fundamentalist " death list ".

Like other writers for New Worlds Zoline uses " science-fictional and scientific language and imagery to describe perfectly ' ordinary ' scenes of life ", and by doing so produces " altered perceptions of reality in the reader.

Like the previous year, most fans and sports writers believed that the top NFL teams were superior to the top AFL teams.

Like the works of many other important fiction writers of his day — e. g. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens — Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories first appeared in serial form in the monthly Strand magazine in the United Kingdom.

" his 1869 report of the Cascades mountain range, Frank's father, Samuel, wrote: ' these forests of trees — so enchain the senses of the grand and so enchant the sense of the beautiful that I linger on the theme and am to depart — surpassing the woods of all the rest of the globe ...' Like many writers of that time, Samuel indulged in hyperbole, but his love of the Cascades seems very genuine.

Like earlier Durham writers, Symeon finds historical continuity between the major phases of the community's development in the constant presence of their patron, Saint Cuthbert.

Like other writers Stern found himself under pressure to have Spider-Man fight the Green Goblin again but did not wish to bring Norman Osborn or Bart Hamilton back from the dead, have Harry Osborn become the Green Goblin again or create yet another Green Goblin.

Like other early science fiction writers of the period, he was influenced by the stories of Jules Verne, whose technological adventure novels had become popular in translation in the rapidly modernising Meiji era Japan.

Like many future writers, he was an ambulance driver for a while.

: Like Chaucer and all other great writers, I embrace simplicity and directness of language.

Like most chronicles, it is now valued not so much for what was culled from previous writers, as for its full and lively narrative of contemporary events from 1215 to 1235, including the signing of Magna Carta by King John at Runnymede.

Like many other writers, Robert Jordan never officially names his world, so ( in lieu of another name ) Randland has come into accepted common usage --- so that fans have something to call it, although clues scattered throughout the series often suggest the world is own respective planet earth.

Like many Portuguese writers of his time, Sá de Miranda often wrote in Spanish apart from Portuguese.

Like many multi-talented and successful writers, Bracken was not a prudent person and eventually became financially embarrassed.

Like his medieval predecessors and his contemporaries, Fuchs was heavily influenced by the three Greek and Roman writers on medicine and materia medica, Dioscorides, Hippocrates, and Galen.

Like that of other Byzantine writers, his chronology is defective.

Like other memoirs by Hungarian writers and statesmen, it was first published in the West, because it could not be published in the Hungary of the post-1956 Kádár era.

Like Herodotus and Thucydides, he probably autographed his work for the benefit of later writers.

Like that of Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes and other black writers of the period, his work often dealt with race and class in the United States.

Like The Modern Monk, it deals with scandalous sexual liaisons not much in keeping with traditional modes of Burmese behaviour. One of the greatest female writers of the Post-colonial period is Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay.

Like the Pythons before them, the writers lampooned and tinkered with the medium on which the show was broadcast.

Like other scholars of his day ( such as Edward Tylor ), Morgan argued that human societies could be classified into categories of cultural evolution on a scale of progression that ranged from savagery, to barbarism, to civilization.

Like other abscesses, perianal abscesses may require prompt medical treatment, such as an incision and debridement or lancing.

Like Jehovah's Witnesses, Adventists use key phrases from the Bible, such as " For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten " ( Eccl.

Like much of his mature work, it employs an idiosyncratic adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique that enables the composer to produce passages openly evoking tonality, including quotations from historical tonal music, such as a Bach chorale and a Carinthian folk song.

Like the Finnsburg Fragment and several shorter surviving poems, Beowulf has consequently been used as a source of information about Scandinavian personalities such as Eadgils and Hygelac, and about continental Germanic personalities such as Offa, king of the continental Angles.

Like other genera associated with the early history of microbiology, such as Pseudomonas or Vibrio, members of the Bacillus genus ( 266 species ) are found ubiquitously, and it is one of the genera with the largest 16S diversity and environmental diversity.

Like several other stars such as Denebola and Deneb, it is named for the Arabic word for " tail " ( deneb ); its traditional name means " the tail of the kid ".

) Like the buy bet the commission is adjusted to suit the betting unit such that fraction of a dollar payouts are not needed.

Like many proteases, chymotrypsin will also hydrolyse amide bonds in vitro, a virtue that enabled the use of substrate analogs such as N-acetyl-L-phenylalanine p-nitrophenyl amide for enzyme assays.

Like caraway, its fernlike leaves are aromatic and are used to flavor many foods, such as gravlax ( cured salmon ), borscht and other soups, and pickles ( where the dill flower is sometimes used ).

Like embassies, such residences are considered inviolable and, in most cases, extraterritorial.

Records such as " Let Me Be the One " by Safire, " I Remember What You Like " by Jenny Burton, " Running " by Information Society, " Give Me Tonight " by Shannon and " It Works For Me " by Pam Russo enjoyed heavy New York radio airplay.

Like extant organisms, fossils vary in size from microscopic, such as single bacterial cells

In 2002, Lineker took on his first acting role, barring roles playing himself in films such as Bend It Like Beckham or in the adapted-for-television stage play An Evening with Gary Lineker, as the voice of Underground Ernie on the BBC's children's channel, CBeebies.

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 French epics, such as the Chanson de Roland, Homeric poetry is indigenous and, by the ease of movement and its resultant simplicity, distinguishable from the works of Dante, Milton and Virgil.

Like any conspiracy theory, it contains several grains of truth ; and like any such theory, it is both irrational and insidious.

Like the elongated scroll scenes of Kaizhi, Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 AD ) Chinese artists like Wu Daozi painted vivid and highly detailed artwork on long horizontal handscrolls ( which were very popular during the Tang ), such as his Eighty Seven Celestial People.

Like the rock-blues icons that preceded them, fusion guitarists usually played their solid body instruments through stadium rock-style amplification, and signal processing " effects " such as simulated distortion, wah-wah, octave splitters, compression, and flange pedals.

Like Polish, Kashubian includes about 5 % loanwords from Low German, such as kùńszt ( art ), and some from High German.

Like its predecessor, the UN does not have its own standing armed forces, but calls on its members to contribute to armed interventions, such as during the Korean War and the peacekeeping mission in the former Yugoslavia.

Like other religious terms, such as " Trinity ", the term " Limbo " does not appear in the Bible.

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 bacteria, plant cells have cell walls, and contain organelles such as chloroplasts in addition to the organelles in other eukaryotes.