Unlike other contemporary scripts, such as Cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Phoenician script consisted of only about two dozen symbols.

Unlike conventional auctions, bids are non-refundable ; if one player bids 65 for psyche and another wins with a bid of 66, then the character with 66 is " superior " to the character with 65 even though there is only one bid difference.

Unlike the abbot, the abbess receives only the ring and a copy of the rule of the order.

Unlike officeholders, the citizen initiator was not vetted before taking up office or automatically reviewed after stepping down — it had after all no set tenure and might be an action lasting only a moment.

Unlike mainstream medicine, CAM often lacks or has only limited experimental and clinical study ; however, scientific investigation of CAM is beginning to address this knowledge gap.

Unlike traditional adhesives, UV light curing adhesives not only bond materials together but they can also be used to seal and coat products.

Unlike the Israelite worship assembly, which was only able to look on during Temple worship as the Levitical Priest sang, played, and offered animal sacrifices, in the New Testament, all Christians are commanded to sing praises to God.

Unlike that, the speed of light is constant and only its direction changes.

Unlike a conventional tank water heater, the tank is filled only when there is sunlight.

Unlike a sacrifice bunt, which may be scored if a runner advances from any base to any base, a sacrifice fly is only credited if a runner scores on the play.

Unlike the neutral Americans in the first incident, the only witnesses to the second attack were the German and British sailors present.

Unlike Blackstone and the Restatements, Holmes ' book only briefly discusses what the law is ; rather, Holmes describes the common law process.

Unlike traditional HTML with its large range of character entity references, in XML there are only five predefined character entity references.

Unlike its predecessor games, CoC assumed that most investigators would not survive, alive or sane, and that the only safe way to deal with the vast majority of nasty things described in the rule books was to run away.

Unlike the gradient and divergence, curl does not generalize as simply to other dimensions ; some generalizations are possible, but only in three dimensions is the geometrically defined curl of a vector field again a vector field.

Unlike cyanine, phthalocyanine is less resistant to UV rays and CD-Rs based on this dye show signs of degradation only after two weeks of direct sunlight exposure.

Unlike the system described above, the astronomical system does not consider years, it only counts days.

Unlike in the Silver Age, his powers developed over several years, only coming to their peak when he was an adult.

Unlike cismontain chaparral, which forms dense, impenatrable stands of plants, desert chaparral is open, with only about 50 % of the ground covered.

Unlike the Catholic sacrament of Penance, the Consolamentum could be taken only once.

Unlike many other succulents, the stem is the only part of most cacti where this vital process takes place.

Unlike Proto-Norse, which was written with the Elder Futhark alphabet, Old Norse was written with the Younger Futhark alphabet, which only had 16 letters.

Unlike every other version of the game, Duke Nukem cannot turn ; he can only move forwards, backwards, and strafe left or right.

Unlike baryonic dark matter, nonbaryonic dark matter does not contribute to the formation of the elements in the early universe (" Big Bang nucleosynthesis ") and so its presence is revealed only via its gravitational attraction.

Unlike the discrete-time Fourier transform ( DTFT ), the DFT only evaluates enough frequency components to reconstruct the finite segment that was analyzed.

Unlike the Gliese, it does not cut off at a given distance from the Sun ; rather it attempts to catalogue all known measured parallaxes.

Unlike earlier attempts, the convention was not meant for new laws or piecemeal alterations, but for the “ sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation ”.

Unlike many other religions, Judaism has not made strong attempts to convert non-Jews, although formal conversion to Judaism is permitted.

# Unlike a chattel slave, a wage laborer can ( barring unemployment or lack of job offers ) choose between employers, but they usually constitute a minority of owners in the population for which the wage laborer must work, while attempts to implement workers ' control on employers ' businesses may be met with violence or other unpleasant consequences.

Unlike other attempts at creating a credit card to rival MasterCard and VISA, such as Citibank's Choice card, the Discover Card quickly gained a large national consumer base.

Unlike a traditional sorting algorithm, which attempts to sort with the fewest comparisons possible, the goal is to sort the sequence in as few reversals as possible.

Unlike Joel, who was resigned to his fate at being stranded in space, Mike is more desperate and proactive in trying to escape, making wild attempts during his run of the show.

Unlike the other Intertect operatives, Mannix attempts to block the camera with a coat rack and insults Lew, comparing him to Big Brother.

Unlike the earliest theories of the Phillips Curve, the triangle model attempts to account for the phenomenon of stagflation.

Unlike previous attempts, the pacing is faster and control over Adol's actions are more tight and responsive.

Unlike previous Christian humanist conceptions, Drake-Brockman attempts to build a new Christian theology around the proposition that Jesus predicated any salvation on good works-especially the need to express compassion-and not on faith, either in Old Covenant Judaism or in Christ as the Lord and Redeemer.

Unlike the earlier unsuccessful Union attempts to cross the creek, Winthrop and his men crossed the creek uncontested because they tied their white cloths around their hats and pretended to be part of the Confederate force.

Unlike Jamie Oliver's attempts to improve food at a school in Greenwich, he believes simple, hearty meals are better than elaborate restaurant-style ones.

Unlike backfires, escape fires are not attempts to control – let alone stop – a wildfire.

Unlike the majority of other Lebanese leftist militias, the Organization of Communist Action, led by Muhsin Ibrahim, refused to cooperate with Syria in its attempts to vanquish Arafat.

Unlike that song however, Maria is stubborn and attempts to change Jonas ' mind, who eventually succumbs.

Unlike the previous attempts to recreate their Empire which had relied on scavenged and inferior equipment, this Empire had the full power of their technology at their disposal.

Unlike other racing titles released by Sega, this particular game does not rely on powersliding and drifting and attempts to actually be very simulator oriented.