Unlike the communist parties in most other East European states, the BCP ( changing its name to Bulgarian Socialist Party ) retained majority power after the transition in Bulgaria by winning the first free national elections in June 1990.

Unlike some of their continental European counterparts, the Monarch and her Governors-General in the Commonwealth realms hold significant " reserve " or " prerogative " powers, to be wielded in times of extreme emergency or constitutional crises usually to uphold parliamentary government.

Unlike in many other European countries, the general image of Święty Mikołaj in Poland is basically no different to the one of the Anglo-Saxon Santa Claus ( he is said to live in the North Pole, wear red clothes and a white beard, use reindeers to pull his sleigh, or enter houses via the chimney ).

Unlike the United States, the European Union has not adopted a uniform franchise disclosure policy.

Unlike Denmark proper, Greenland is no longer part of the European Union.

Unlike most European countries the Czech gun law allow its citizens to carry a concealed weapon without having any specific reason.

Unlike most European Monarchies which practised primogeniture, the Timurids, following Genghis Khan's example, did not leave an entire kingdom to the eldest son.

Unlike Switzerland however ( where citizens rejected membership in a referendum ), Liechtenstein is part of the European Economic Area.

Unlike other mozzarellas — 50 % of whose production derives from non-Italian and often semi-coagulated milk — it holds the status of a protected designation of origin ( PDO 1996 ) under the European Union.

Unlike their European counterparts, manual transmissions have disappeared due to lack of demand ; 1995 was the last year for a manual transmission in the Ford Aerostar and Chrysler minivans while GM had previously discontinued the manual transmission in the Chevrolet Astro and GMC Safari.

Unlike similar national rail information sites in other European states, the site is not available in foreign languages, nor is it available in Welsh despite this being an official language of the UK.

Unlike many other European presidents, the office of the French President is quite powerful.

Unlike many other Eastern European cars of the communist era ( notably the Lada Riva, Skoda Estelle, Polski Fiat and Yugo ), however, it was not a strong seller in Western Europe.

Unlike other European nations, the Portuguese regime did not leave its African colonies, or the overseas provinces, during the 1950s and 1960s.

Unlike the Rwandan monarchy, which decided to accept the German advances, the Burundian king Mwezi IV Gisabo opposed all European influence, refusing to wear European clothing and resisting the advance of European missionaries or administrators.

Unlike many other medieval chronicles written by European monks, the Tale of Bygone Years is unique as the only written testimony on the earliest history of East Slavic people.

Unlike in other European countries of the time, the nobility in Bohemia was not a part of the literary audience and thus this split of literary effort led to a certain lack of development and stagnation of Czech baroque literature in comparison to other European countries of the time, especially in genres that were written for noble courts.

Unlike the European scholars who came after him, Averroes argued that rhetoric and poetics were both part of Aristotle's work on logical thought.

Unlike the commoner status of a British peer's wife and descendants ( yet typical of the nobility of every continental European country ), the legitimate children and male-line descendants of any French nobleman ( whether titled or not, whether possessing a French peerage or not ) were also legally noble ad infinitum.

Unlike traditional Western societies of the time, many Caribbean pirate crews of European descent operated as limited democracies.

Unlike France, some European states ( in their modern forms ) are postempire creations within the past century.

Unlike previous laws ordering meat inspections, which were enforced to assure European nations from banning pork trade, this law was strongly motivated to protect the American diet.

Unlike reality television franchises, international game show franchises generally only see Canadian adaptations in a series of specials, based heavily on the American versions but usually with a Canadian host to allow for Canadian content credits.

Unlike prior versions, Windows for Workgroups 3. 11 ran in 386 enhanced mode only, and needs at least an 80386SX processor.

Unlike other versions of the character, Shea's Lex has a full head of hair for the majority of the series.

Unlike the other versions, the PlayStation version actually showed the gun being held in the player's hands.

Unlike the many self-created versions, which consist of over 50 or even 70-plus movements, the true pole form is quite compact and focused on practicality.

Unlike other versions of the show, panelists were not provided with jokes.

Unlike prior versions of the API, Direct3D 10 no longer uses " capability bits " ( or " caps ") to indicate which features are supported on a given graphics device.

Unlike the other helpers he takes no further part in the action, suggesting he was added to the romance later under the influence of the Welsh versions of Geoffrey's Historia.

Unlike concert timpani, marching versions had fiberglass shells to make them light enough to carry.

Unlike in the " normal " Trek universe, where Forrest and Archer are close friends, the mirror versions of the characters did not get along well at all.

Unlike Santa Claus and, to a lesser extent, the Easter Bunny, there are few details of the tooth fairy's appearance that are consistent in various versions of the myth.

Unlike all later DOS versions, the DATE and TIME commands were separate executables rather than part of COMMAND. COM.

Unlike Astro Boy, where the opening theme music was the same in both the Japanese and American versions ( with only the lyrics changed ), the Japanese and American versions of The Amazing 3 had different theme music, as well as considerably different opening and closing segments.

Unlike the first edition, the print versions did not contain illustrations.

( Unlike the book and most movie versions, this rabbit hole appears to be dark and spooky.

Unlike other areas of Wales that have Anglicised versions of place names, such as Caerdydd to Cardiff, Cwmbrân ( meaning Crow Valley in English ) is the official name in both Welsh and English ; it has simply been common practice to ignore diacritics in written English.

Unlike the earlier Shonen Jump versions, instances of cigarettes are removed from the Hikaru no Go graphic novels so that they can be labelled as appropriate for everyone.

Unlike other versions, his S-shield is not reversed.

Unlike third generation minicomputers, which were essentially scaled down versions of mainframe computers, the fourth generation's origins are fundamentally different.

Unlike the other versions of Spider-Man, Mary Jane does not appear to be a focus point of one of Pete's girls.

Unlike most of the Turkish cities that use different versions of regular butter in their regional cuisine, Urfa is, together with Antep, Mardin and Siirt a big user of clarified butter, made exclusively from sheep's milk, called locally " Urfayağı " (" Urfabutter ").

Unlike the symbolic interactionist framework, the many theories derived from symbolic interactionism, such as role theory and the versions of Identity Theory developed by Stryker, and Burke and colleagues, clearly define concepts and the relationships between them in a given context, thus allowing for the opportunity to develop and test hypotheses.

Unlike The Isness, which featured almost 100 musicians over the course of it and the various alternative versions and remix albums, Alice in Ultraland featured a fairly solid band lineup throughout, which extended to live shows which the band had undertaken away from the ISDN cables from 2005 onwards.