Sentences with phrase «like father»

She wished to become a lawyer like her father, but this profession was closed to women.

He supported Trump because he wants to get rid of Obamacare, which he, like his father, sees as giving too much power to the insurance companies.

In elderly cancer patients like my father and aunt, who suffer from a variety of chronic health problems, physicians often modify standard treatment regimens — perhaps using two chemotherapy drugs instead of three or lowering standard dosages — in the hope that the revised treatment will work well enough.

But he wanted to study people like his father — to re-create the miracle he had witnessed.

As elderly survivors like my father can attest, having lived many years in no way disqualifies you from gunning for more time.

Given such uncertainties, Bush, much like his father a decade earlier, pledged additional funding for climate studies.

Like his father and grandfather, Trampe, 68, harvests alfalfa on what is now 6,000 acres of picturesque rolling hay crops and grassland 30 minutes outside the town of Crested Butte.

After the tumor was surgically removed, Kalish asked her hospital's genomics lab to run a sophisticated test on chromosome 11 to see whether there was one copy of the chromosome that looked like it came from mom and one that looked like dad's, or two copies that were methylated like the father's.

But in Beckwith - Wiedemann, children may receive two copies that look like their father's chromosome 11 — with IGF - 2 and extra «grow» signals along for the ride.

Muller's scientific leanings grew out of his studies of the humanities; like his father, he loved history, particularly Roman history, a passion he maintains today.

She thought about working for NASA like her father, even going so far as to design a fruit - fly experiment for the space shuttle's Get - Away Special program, which allowed schools, clubs, and professional societies to design small experiments to be flown to space.

Alan and Steven grew up in the Irish town of Waterford with two older brothers, one who became an electrician like their father and the other an office clerk, and a younger brother who became a graphic designer.

Like her father, Ada Lovelace had a vivid imagination and a creative gift for connecting ideas in original ways.

Regardless of what people believe they see during those moments, some experts think NDEs like my father's aren't an external event, but a failing body's attempt to grapple with crisis.

Like father, like son.

Like his father before him, Andrew will quickly lose the fire in the belly to fight.

Get people to understand that at some point in the future we could be back to a point where we have spent more than we're taking in, and why not now start promoting savings like my father taught me to do?

I don't think Cuomo is going to win by any 64 percent like his father did.

«The king is like a father with many children and a good father knows that no matter how much they resemble him physically and by character trait, none of his children will absolutely share his own characteristics and nature and no two children are alike.

Hopefuls are hoping Andrew Cuomo wears out his welcome, like his father did in» 94, and that some obscurity claims the crown.

Like my father before me, I believe public integrity is paramount,» he said.

Nick Clegg stood beside him wearing the same pained expression he's had for four years, like a father who can't afford to buy his son a toy he really wants.

In what was delivered like an early, fiery campaign speech, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told labor leaders yesterday how he, like his father before him, owes his place in the governor's office to organized labor.

If the leader were to be abducted by aliens during his daily jog, the Left would field a candidate whose toughness and hunger might make Mr Corbyn look like Father Christmas.»

That is how a good leader should act, just like a father to all.

Mr. Anyidoho in an interview on Accra - based Happy FM had indicated that President Akufo - Addo will be overthrown just like his father and the late...

«Oba Ibitoye was not only a gentleman and an exceptional royal father, he was like a father to me.

ALBANY — In what was delivered like an early, fiery campaign speech, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo told labor leaders Monday how he, like his father before him, owes his place in the governor's office to organized labor.

Mr. Anyidoho in an interview on Accra - based Happy FM had indicated that President Akufo - Addo will be overthrown just like his father and the late Dr. K.

Prince Andrew will govern just like his father... who saw an annual 12 % increase in our state budget per year over his 12 years of RULE in New York... What NYS needs is less NYC liberals and more small govt minded people.

Parete is the son of legislature Chairman John Parete of Olive and, like his father, a frequent critic of the Mike Hein administration.

This governor has not set aside funds to plot out a potential convention like his father, former Governor Mario Cuomo, did ahead of the 1997 vote.

Like his father, he is a Republican who has little regard for the party line and believes in a philosophy that might best be described as radical individual freedom — privatize as many functions as possible and reduce government to its barest bones.

Mr. Anyidoho had in an interview on Accra - based Happy FM, indicated that President Akufo - Addo will be overthrown just like his father and the late Dr. K.

Like my father before me, I believe public integrity is paramount.

Just like his father, Andy is ridiculously thin - skinned.

«Rotimi Akeredolu and myself are the only two candidates in #ondo2016 that have the people of Ondo State at heart like our father, Pa Ajasin.»

A recent New York Post story floated the New York City mayor as a potential primary challenger to Cuomo in 2018, should the governor choose, like his father, to seek a third term.

The two discuss the issues facing the city, where leadership of the city has gone right and wrong in recent years, and why Walsh is an independent rather than a Republican, like his father and grandfather.

He boasts about his eclectic political circle — friendships have included «Sir Peter Tapsell, the ex -[Tory] Father of the House — he was like a father to me.

The targets are believed to be Joseph Percoco, a long - time Cuomo family aide that Andrew Cuomo described at his father Mario's funeral as being like his father's «third son.»

I greeted him like a son and he spoke to me like a father.»

Jefferson Smith, the founder of the grassroots Bus Project, is a State Representative, like his father.

Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho, has warned President Akufo — Addo that, he will end up like his father, who was overthrown together with Dr. KA Busia in 1972.

Mr. Anyidoho in an interview on Accra - based Happy FM, indicated that President Akufo - Addo will be overthrown just like his father and the late Dr. K.

It's like father, like son for Gov. - elect Andrew Cuomo «s Christmas wish this year.

Like his father, Andrew Cuomo is carrying forward a liberal social ideology, at times challenging the Roman Catholic Church, in which both men were raised.

Cox is attacking Governor Andrew Cuomo, saying his administration's failure to make a decision on fracking shows he's a «ditherer» like his father, former Governor Mario Cuomo.

Cuomo has long proclaimed himself to be a con - con supporter — much like his father, the late former Gov. Mario Cuomo.

«Like my father before me, I believe public integrity is paramount,» Cuomo stated.