Unlike many former Soviet bloc militaries, discipline and morale problems are not common.

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

Unlike with geographical maps, where many famous projections are known ( such as the Mercator projection ), the calendar projection is a matter of such triviality that no names for these exist in common circulation.

Unlike high impact exercises, which can damage knees and the connective tissues of the lower body, rowing's most common injury site is the lower back.

Unlike common serial ASCII terminals, the 3270 minimizes the number of I / O interrupts required by transferring large blocks of data known as data streams, and uses a high speed proprietary communications interface, using coaxial cable.

Unlike residents, extended or permanent separation of transient offspring from natal matrilines is common, with juveniles and adults of both sexes participating.

Unlike the common citrus, which have a rind which is inedible raw, oval kumquats have an edible sweet rind.

Unlike most civil law systems, common law systems follow the doctrine of stare decisis, by which most courts are bound by their own previous decisions in similar cases, and all lower courts should make decisions consistent with previous decisions of higher courts.

Unlike other common energy storage in prior use such as wood or coal, electricity must be used as it is being generated, or converted immediately into another form of energy such as potential, kinetic or chemical.

Unlike Brubeck, Mulligan personally shared much in common with Desmond.

Unlike common and civil law, there are very few mitigating factors for the death penalty, often those who murder under any circumstances would either die or be forgiven by the victim's family ( Thou shalt not kill ).

Unlike more common systems for transliterating Arabic, SATTS does not provide the reader with any more phonetic information than standard Arabic orthography does ; that is, it provides the bare Arabic alphabetic spelling with no notation of short vowels, doubled consonants, etc.

Unlike more common outline font formats ( such as TrueType or PostScript Type 1 ), a Metafont font is primarily made up of strokes with finite-width " pens ", along with filled regions.

Unlike the " pleasure punting " common on the Cherwell in Oxford and the Cam in Cambridge, punting on the Thames is competitive as well as recreational and uses narrower craft.

Unlike his first wife, she had much in common with him, including a liking for squash, tennis and golf and for dancing.

Unlike most animals, skull fossils are far more common than postcranial bones for Triceratops, suggesting that the skull had an unusually high preservation potential.

Unlike most European court system ( in both common law and civil law countries ), it is unusual in American state courts to reserve very serious crimes for a court different than the one that handles all other felony cases in a given county.

Unlike the far more common " negative " lightning, positive lightning occurs when a positive charge is carried by the top of the clouds ( generally anvil clouds ) rather than the ground.

Unlike its common green in other accounts, adamantine in Dwarf Fortress is a very bright blue.

Unlike the state supreme court, the Courts of Appeal have mandatory review jurisdiction under the informal legal tradition in common law countries that all litigants are entitled to at least one appeal.

Unlike the stone columns that are characteristic of other Greek architecture, the Minoan column was constructed from the trunk of a cypress tree, common to the Mediterranean.

Unlike other elite leaders who had relationships with slaves but never talked about them, Johnson was open and treated Chinn as his common law wife.

Unlike common usage of the term brat, when it is used in this context, it is not necessarily a derogatory term.

Unlike the naturalistic Florentine art, there is a mystical streak in Sienese art, characterized by a common focus on miraculous events, with less attention to proportions, distortions of time and place, and often dreamlike coloration.

Unlike most Common-law jurisdictions, the majority of civil law jurisdictions have specialized courts or sections to deal with administrative cases which, as a rule, will apply procedural rules specifically designed for such cases and different from that applied in private-law proceedings, such as contract or tort claims.

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

Unlike Aristotle's law this law deals with the necessary relation between subject and predicate in a single judgment.

Unlike trusts, wills must be signed by two to three witnesses, the number depending on state law.

Unlike many other major civilizations where written law was held in honor and often attributed to divine origin, law in early China was viewed in purely secular terms and its initial appearance was greeted with hostility by Confucian thinkers as indicative of a serious moral decline, a violation of human morality, and even a disturbance of the total cosmic order.

Unlike many civil law countries which have some courts on which panels of judges with nearly equal status composed of both legally trained professional judges and lay judges who lack legal training and are not career judges, the United States legal system ( like most Anglo-American legal systems ) makes a clear distinction between professional judges and laymen involved in deciding case who are jurors who are part of a jury.

Unlike Justinian, Edward did not codify the law, but as William Stubbs pointed out, " if it be meant to denote the importance and permanence of his legislation and the dignity of his position in legal history ", the comparison is still a valid one.

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 state courts, federal courts are courts of " limited jurisdiction ", that can only hear the types of cases specified in the Constitution and federal statutes ( primarily federal crimes, cases arising under federal law, cases with a United States government party, and cases involving a diversity of citizenship between the parties ).

Unlike Military Bases where the US Congress simply changed the law in 1986, Washington, DC, had to get Constitutional Amendment passed ( Amendment 23 ) to restore US Presidential elections, after 164-year gap.

Unlike Roman times, British law explicitly forbade the combination of corporal and capital punishment ; thus, a convict was either flogged or hanged but never both.

Unlike the Michelin guide which takes the restaurant décor and service into consideration with its rating, Gault Millau only judges the quality of the food.

Unlike federal courts, where judges are Presidential appointees confirmed by the U. S. Senate serving life terms of office, the vast majority of states have some judges who are elected, and the methods of appointment for appointed judges vary widely.

Unlike Circuit Court and Family Court judges, magistrates are not required to be attorneys.

Unlike Circuit Court judges or Family Court judges, magistrates are not required to be attorneys.

Unlike Circuit Court judges or Family Court judges, magistrates are not required to be attorneys.

Unlike the life tenure appointments of federal judges ( including the Supreme Court of the United States ), state supreme court judges hold the judicial bench for 12 years, as do judges of the Court of Appeals.

Unlike the American realists, positivists believe that in many instances the law provides reasonably determinate guidance to its subjects and to judges, at least in trial courts.

Unlike judges in the United Kingdom, judges in Australia never wear breeches, hose and buckled shoes.

Unlike trial court procedure, where judges intervene only when asked by the parties to resolve objections, it is typical for judges at the appellate level to be active participants in oral argument, interrupting the presenting lawyers and asking questions.

Unlike in some civil-law systems, academic treatises or learned commentary is not considered a separate source of law or cited by judges, but judges and attorney rely on it for their arguments.