Similarly, the language spread to numerous other parts of the world as a result of British trade and colonization elsewhere and the spread of the former British Empire, which, by 1921, held sway over a population of 470 – 570 million people, approximately a quarter of the world's population at that time.

Similarly desperate losses were suffered elsewhere on the front, in a disastrous day for the British Army ( approximately 19, 000 British soldiers were killed in a single day ).

Similarly, the British discoverer of niobium originally named it columbium, in reference to the New World.

Similarly, the shortest war in recorded history, the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896, was brought to a swift conclusion by shelling from British battleships.

Similarly, the rebel position at St Stephen's Green, held by the Citizen Army under Michael Mallin, was made untenable after the British placed snipers and machine guns in the Shelbourne Hotel and surrounding buildings.

Similarly, prohibition strengthened tribal resistance to the British in the 1950s, and increased support for the Mau Mau Uprising ( 1952 – 1960 ).

Similarly, the rapid adoption of the scientific method throughout the world was partly a side effect of the British Empire.

Similarly, in British law the phrase racial group means " any group of people who are defined by reference to their race, colour, nationality ( including citizenship ) or ethnic or national origin ".

Similarly Cornwall was a British kingdom before it became an English county.

Similarly, Constantius defeated the British usurper Allectus, Maximian pacified the Gauls, and Diocletian crushed the revolt of Domitianus in Egypt.

Similarly, while some believe that racket came about as a misspelling of racquet, racket is in fact the older spelling: it has been in use in British English since the 16th century, with racquet only showing up later in the 19th century as a variant of racket.

Similarly, tens of thousands of slaves joined British forces or escaped to British lines during the American Revolution, sometimes using the disruption of war to gain freedom.

Similarly to the way that the mats helped worshippers prepare for prayer, the carpet pages can represent the preparation of the reader before the Gospel message ( The British Library Board ).

Similarly, in British law the phrase racial group means " any group of people who are defined by reference to their race, colour, nationality ( including citizenship ) or ethnic or national origin ".

Similarly, after the end of the Irish Civil War, the new Irish state took early action to extend and strengthen the previous British legislation to protect Irish national monuments.

Similarly the Korean cheer / exclamation Hwaiting ( 화이팅 ) comes ( probably via Japan ) from the cheers of British sailors upon hearing there was fighting.

Similarly, British industrial band Godflesh often utilized a drum machine and two primary members, although they did at times record and tour with a second guitarist ( Paul Neville of Loop ), and near the end of the band's life they began working with real drummers ( Bryan Mantia and later Ted Parsons ) almost exclusively.

Similarly, the Roman Catholic missionaries opposed the British missionaries because the British missionaries were Protestant.

Similarly Māori traditional chants were put to Victorian music, or written to European tunes, European designs and metal tools adopted by carvers, altering their style and British fabrics and cloth, such as blanketing adopted to form new dress.

Similarly, British writer Archibald Maclaren has suggested that kobold beliefs descend from the ancient Roman custom of worshipping lares, household gods, and penates, gods of the house and its supplies.

Similarly, Hindi-Urdu speakers might unconsciously apply their native ' v-w ' allophony rules to English words, pronouncing war as var or advance as adwance, which can result in intelligibility problems with native English speakers.

Similarly if the jack is knocked into the ditch it is still alive unless it is out of bounds to the side resulting in a " dead " end which is replayed, though according to international rules the jack is " respotted " to the centre of the rink and the end is continued.

Similarly, rules differ across space: what is acceptable in one society may not be so in another.

Similarly, any work of verse with fewer rules and restrictions is known as free verse.

Similarly, in complex territorial and cooperative breeding bird communities ( such as the Australian magpie ) that have a high degree of etiquettes, rules, hierarchies, play, songs and negotiations, rule-breaking seems tolerated on occasions not obviously related to survival of the individual or group ; behaviour often appearing to exhibit a touching gentleness and tenderness.

Similarly, a batter does not receive credit for an RBI when runs score on an error, unless the scorer rules that a run would have scored even if the fielder had not made a mistake.

Similarly, a licensed broker who chooses to neither join the trade association nor operate a business within the association's rules, cannot join most MLSes.

Similarly, in the comic-book series based on Forgotten Realms, a wizard notes that after the upheavals in magic caused by the Troubles, some of his spells had changed in power and effect ; and indeed, the game rules for those same spells had been revised.

Similarly, an intensional definition of a game, such as chess, would be the rules of the game ; any game played by those rules must be a game of chess, and any game properly called a game of chess must have been played by those rules.

" Similarly, his Who's Who entry read thus: " Has led several expeditions into the far interior of the country to punish headhunters ; understands the management of natives ; rules over a population of 500, 000 souls and a country " in extent.

Similarly, delegated legislation may be viewed as a way of removing controversial matters ( for example, immigration rules ) from the remit of Parliament and putting them under the control of the Government, because they can be regarded as matters of detail.

Similarly a speaker or writer's use of words like raisinish or raisiny may or may not involve productive application of the noun + ish and noun + y rules, and the same is true of a hearer or reader's understanding of them.

Similarly, whereas when two citizens have a dispute they can appeal to the courts to render a verdict and, more importantly, the law enforcement agencies to enforce the court's ruling, there is no body above nation-states that is capable of: establishing rules or laws for all the states, deciding how these apply in specific cases, and compelling the states to honor the court's ruling.

Similarly to the EU classification, they rank in several categories, by order of increasing risk and associated required level of control ; various rules exist in the regulation which allow for the device's category to be identified

Similarly, each melodic passage centers on a single tone level, but the melodic contour and melodic passages are largely shaped by the reading rules, creating passages of different lengths whose temporal expansion is defined through caesuras.

Similarly, individual nations may also designate Special Use Airspace with further rules for reasons of national security or safety.

Similarly, no Super Bowl has ever been unavailable in the market of origin since the new blackout rules came into effect.

Similarly, older American math textbooks included lessons that are no longer considered important, such as rules for calculating the number of bushels of hay that could be stored in a bin of stated dimensions, because this skill was useful to farmers at that time.

Similarly, critics welcomed the developers ' choice to forego traditional football rules in the favour of a more arcade-like style of gameplay.

Similarly, with the ease and convenience of digital distribution of high resolution images, the generic term TF * has evolved, where it does not necessarily refer to a tangible CD or Printed image since the same accepted rules apply.

Similarly, if there is an entirely new situation, a return to the policies forming the basic assumptions underpinning potentially relevant rules of law, identifies the best guidelines for resolving the immediate dispute.

Similarly, one may put dots in places where a bulb would " trap " another unlit cell, making it impossible to light it up without breaking the rules.