Unlike the Oriental Natural, the Akoya pearl, and the South Sea and Tahitian cultured pearls, abalone pearls are not primarily judged by their roundness.

Unlike reforms in the United Kingdom, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia and soon to be Western Australia, this law does not have a retrospective effect, which is unpopular with some advocates of the reform.

Unlike its New South Wales and Queensland counterparts, the WA party had decided to oppose Liberal candidates in the 2008 election.

Unlike many South American countries, Paraguay has few mineral resources and very little history of mining success.

Unlike any other country in South America, Paraguay recognizes the Republic of China instead of the People's Republic of China.

Unlike in neighboring Japan and South Korea, small and medium-sized businesses make up a large proportion of businesses in Taiwan.

Unlike at the North Tower, initially, one of the three stairwells was still intact after Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower.

Unlike Louis Antoine de Bougainville, whose reports from a journey to Tahiti a few years earlier had initiated uncritical noble savage romanticism, Forster had a very sophisticated picture of the societies of the South Pacific islands.

" Unlike Northerners who moved South and were sometimes referred to as " Carpetbaggers ," Hill wrote, Longstreet " is a native, which is so much the worse.

Unlike the previous two species of Echinococcus, E. vogeli and E. oligarthus are limited to Central and South America.

Unlike most of Africa, however, the perimeter of South Africa's inland plateau rises abruptly to form a series of mountain ranges before dropping to sea level.

Unlike the largely autonomous islands of Sark and Alderney within the Bailiwick, Herm is administered entirely by the States of Guernsey, and elects members to the States of Deliberation as part of the St. Peter Port South electoral district.

Unlike Bethany Beach, South Bethany is almost exclusively residential.

Unlike the rest of New South Wales, Broken Hill ( and the surrounding region ) observes Australian Central Standard Time, UTC + 9: 30, a time zone it shares with South Australia and the Northern Territory.

Unlike the North Wall, where most of the heads are new ( not authentic ancient heads, but modern creations ), the heads of the figures on the South Wall are mostly original.

Unlike most of his contemporaries, Els is known for his willingness to participate in tournaments all around the world, having played regularly in European Tour-sanctioned events in Asia, Australasia, and his native country of South Africa.

Unlike the Russian dark psytrance, South African psytrance is more rhythmic, melodic and danceable, yet keeps the ' nasty-like ' attitude.

Unlike such Confederate officers as Jubal Early and William Pendleton, Alexander eschewed the bitter Lost Cause theories of why the South was doomed to fail, given the overwhelming superiority of the North.

Unlike South Africa, Rhodesia's black African majority had representation in the Assembly, but the separate franchise ( the ' B ' roll ) was restricted to those who owned property, and also tribal chiefs, many of whom were derided as puppets of the white regime.

Unlike the North Circular, the South Circular is not a purpose-built route, but a collection of pre-existing suburban roads joined together, which has resulted in a disjointed feel, with totsos at several junctions.

Unlike Ioan Bogdan and others, Iorga strongly rejected any notion that the South Slavs had been an additional contributor to ethnogenesis, and argued that Slavic idioms were a sustained but nonessential influence in historical Romanian.

Unlike at Gloucester Road and South Kensington, other stations served by both the District and Piccadilly Lines, a new building to house the lifts to the deep level platforms was not required.

Unlike Australia, the second-generation sedans were still badged Meteor in South Africa.

Unlike most other towns in the country, and in contrast to its older and larger neighbor Mumbai, Vashi was planned before being constructed, as was the city of Navi Mumbai itself.

Unlike many of the railway stations in Mumbai, which have ' east ' and ' west ' sides, this station has a ' north ' and ' south ' side on either side of the railway track.

Unlike the models mentioned above, Christie's Poirot was clearly the result of her early development of the detective in her first book, written in 1916 but not published until 1920.

Unlike official development units, the purchase of V64s was not restricted to software companies only.

Unlike Confucius, he holds a distinctive repulsion to any development in ritual music and the fine arts.

Unlike gray matter, which peaks in development in a person's twenties, the white matter continues to develop, and peaks in middle age ( Sowell et al., 2003 ).

Unlike older legacy systems, the newer generation of Unix systems featured standardized programming interfaces and peripheral interconnects ; third party development of hardware and software was encouraged, a significant departure from the norm of the time, which saw companies such as Amdahl and Hitachi going to court for the right to sell systems and peripherals that were compatible with IBM's mainframes.

Unlike many prominent politicians Humphrey never became wealthy, and through most of his years as a U. S. Senator and Vice President, he lived in a modest middle-class housing development in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

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 most antibiotics, antiviral drugs do not destroy their target pathogen ; instead they inhibit their development.

Unlike most of the other treatments, few if any negative side-effects are typically experienced, and the development of bacterial resistance to the treatment seems very unlikely.

Unlike so many of India's rural poor, the Dongria actually live very well in the Niyamgiri hills, and it's a terrible irony that what Vedanta is proposing to do in the name of ' development ' will actually destroy this completely self-sufficient people.

Unlike most of the county's coastal cities, Santee still has sizable portions of vacant land suitable for development.

Unlike other nearby towns, Weston never had a railroad built through it, which stifled the development of non-agricultural businesses.

Unlike AONBs, national parks have their own authorities, have special legal powers to prevent unsympathetic development, and are well known to many inhabitants of England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Unlike other Washington, D. C. suburbs, Montgomery County engages in master planning for all development.

Unlike with single-family development, the multi-family development continued at about the same average pace during the 1970s and 1980s.

Unlike most towns along Route 22, zoning in Mountainside does not allow for much commercial development adjacent to the freeway.

Unlike the chip-level simulator, which could not simulate a multi-node array, and which ran very slowly, this environment allowed in-depth development of array software to begin.

Unlike the comparable Becontree development, Harold Hill was built without direct connection to the London Underground or National Rail services.

Unlike other CBDs, MIBC is being created as a single project, run by one designated company, and combines business activity, living space, retail trade, and entertainment in one single development.

Unlike the FCC approach where a standard was simply selected from the existing candidates, the NTSC would produce a board that was considerably more pro-active in development.

Unlike sonata form, thematic development does not need to occur except possibly in the coda.

Unlike in many other fields of economics, approaches in development economics may incorporate social and political factors to devise particular plans.

Unlike earlier theories, international dependence theories have their origins in developing countries and view obstacles to development as being primarily external in nature, rather than internal.

Unlike internal resources, this value can vary with time if upstream development reduces water availability at the border.