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

Unlike many of France's former colonies, the Malagasy Republic strongly resisted movements towards communism.

Unlike the Aristotelian Xenarchus and Tyrannion that preceded him in teaching Strabo, Athenodorus was Stoic in mindset, almost certainly the source of Strabo's diversion from the philosophy of his former mentors.

Unlike some other former royal properties, the palace escaped relatively unscathed.

Unlike the other five former Yugoslav republics which were run for much of the 1990s by charismatic and frequently authoritarian presidents, Slovenia under Drnovšek's premiership quickly emerged from the break-up of the federation as a functioning parliamentary democracy.

Unlike most of MCA's previous acquisitions, the GRP ( which began managing MCA's jazz holdings ) and Geffen ( which became a second mainstream subsidiary ) labels kept their identities and MCA created a new holding company in 1989 called MCA Music Entertainment Group, headed by Al Teller, former President of United Artists Records, and Co-Chairman of Turf Classics, a concert production company, run by Producer Richard Flanzer ; among several other music industry positions Teller held.

Unlike most players who absorbed the " bebop " style, Winding notably used more overtly trombonistic slide and mute effects from the earlier eras of jazz, as had another former Goodman trombonist Bill Harris ( musician ), sounds which Johnson studiously avoided.

Unlike several other high-ranking members of the communist regime, like Günter Schabowski and Günther Kleiber, Krenz continues to defend the former German Democratic Republic and maintains he hasn't changed his political views.

Unlike the other former WHA teams, the Whalers were not stripped of most of their players.

Unlike Scotland and Northern Ireland, England and Wales form the constitutional successor to the former Kingdom of England and follow a single legal system, known as English law.

Unlike some European countries ( such as Greece ), which continue to forbid the presence of the heirs of former royal houses in their lands, republican Portugal and its claimants to the throne have long been reconciled, a fact shown when among the guests at the wedding of Duarte Pio was the President of the Portuguese Republic and the country's prime minister.

Unlike many of his old comrades, he did not desert to his former master during Bonaparte's 1815 return.

Unlike the former four Gerrer rebbes, who lived in Jerusalem, the current rebbe ( since 1996 ) is a Bnei Brak resident.

Unlike presiding officers of legislatures in many other countries, the Speaker remains strictly non-partisan, and renounces all affiliation with his or her former political party when taking office.

Unlike former astronomical time scales, TCB is defined in the context of the general theory of relativity.

Unlike former astronomical time scales, TCG is defined in the context of the general theory of relativity.

Unlike other former Wales colleges however, the institution's name remained unchanged.

Unlike many former historians ( e. g. Voltaire and Condorcet ), who denigrated the Middle Ages, he endeavored to show that the Roman Catholic Church had helped foster Western science in one of its most fruitful periods.

Unlike other Canadian regional municipalities it is near-entirely wilderness and has only one " urban " centre, the former Town of Fort Nelson.

Unlike MHI though, it was not diversified into shipbuilding and general machinery, and so, had to dissolve into a number of spin-off companies set up by former managers, engineers, and workers.

Unlike most county mergers in the 19th century, Lennox and Addington, which had been split off from the former Midland District in 1849, became a full amalgamation of the two counties into a single government.

Unlike many of his fellow former Tory MPs, he refought the seat at the 2001 election-only to come second place to Labour's Chris Pond.

( Unlike the former custom in the Latin Church, the Ruthenian Church always celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Church Slavonic language, an ancient Slavic language.

Unlike the rigid and harsh Smith, Attwood, a former pupil of Mozart, was a musician of wide sympathies and kind disposition.

Unlike their predecessor party, that formed government during its entire existence, the Alberta Conservatives were a marginal party in Alberta for most of the province's early history.

Unlike the Saskatchewan CCF, which had won office in the 1944 Saskatchewan election on a platform calling for social programs, the Alberta CCF was more radical and campaigned on provincial ownership of the province's resources and utilities.

Unlike many other towns in Alberta, Athabasca predates the railway.

Unlike Reform, the Alberta Alliance was an active political party — it fielded a full slate of candidates in the 2004 general election, and won one seat in the Legislature.

Unlike the other three plebiscites held in Alberta, the 1957 vote was not held in conjunction with a provincial election.

Unlike the 1998 strike, which lasted a mere three weeks and was resolved largely due to the personal relationship between Dutoit and Lucien Bouchard, then the premier of Quebec, this much more acrimonious work stoppage lasted five months, ending shortly before concerts to be conducted by Nagano.

Unlike at the federal level, however, there have been instances where the governing party recommended that the deputy premier serve as premier on an interim basis until a permanent successor was chosen — most notably, Dan Miller ascended from the deputy premiership to the premiership of British Columbia in 1999, following the resignation of Glen Clark, and Kathy Dunderdale ascended from the deputy premiership to the premiership of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2010, following the resignation of Danny Williams.

Unlike other government-sponsored research institutes which are responsible to relevant Executive Yuan ministries, Academia Sinica, as the nation's premier research institution, is directly responsible to the President of the Republic of China.

Unlike most other premiers who are officially appointed by a Lieutenant-Governor or Commissioner on account of their leadership of a majority bloc in the legislature, the premier of Nunavut ( and the cabinet ) is directly elected by the non-partisan members of the Legislative Assembly, in accordance with the system of consensus government, and then appointed by the Commissioner of Nunavut.

Unlike the premier bands, these members are rotated among a services ' bands serving at various installations.

Unlike the Bond films, The IPCRESS File was designed to have a different, more down-beat style, although Saltzman employed many Bond movie staff, including production designer Ken Adam, editor Peter Hunt, and composer John Barry.

Unlike the comic strip, Spidey was never seen out of costume as his alter-ego, Peter Parker, and he spoke via speech balloons that the home audience had to read.

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 the rest of his crew, Hook is still competent enough to do something right, and takes Jane captive ( after she and Tinker Bell manage to free Peter and the Lost Boys ) in the final battle.

Unlike the other standard USC programs for screenwriting, film production, or the Peter Stark Motion Picture Producing and critical studies programs, Mehring designed her FILMIC writing program to teach a select group of students how to be authors of their visions.

Unlike Trueman and Statham, Snow had no regular new-ball partner, teaming up with David Brown, Jeff Jones, Alan Ward, Chris Old, Ken Shuttleworth, Peter Lever, Bob Willis, Geoff Arnold and others.

Unlike his predecessors Len Hutton, Peter May and Ted Dexter Smith rode '... the side with a loose rein, believing it knew where it was going and need only an occasional tug to keep it on the right course.

Unlike his sister's personal life, Peter Phillips receives only limited publicity.

Unlike Peter and other apostles in the early Christian church, who devoted themselves entirely to their religious ministry and lived off the money donated by church members ,( Acts 6: 2 ) Paul frequently performed outside work, not desiring to be a financial burden to the young churches he founded.

Unlike their first fight referee Robert Byrd did not let Peter punch on the break or hit to the back of the head.

Unlike Pickwick's other accounts such as Peter Pan Records or Cricket Records, no Disneyland 7-inch 78 RPM's exist, however a very limited selection of 7-inch 45-RPM EPs exist featuring up to five minutes of playing time per side, similarly to the 10-inch 78's.

Unlike most other Chief Secretaries to the Treasury, Peter Rees never went further within the Cabinet, leaving the post in the September 1985 cabinet reshuffle.

Unlike the Skarloey Railway of the books, where all the locomotives are painted red, in the TV series each is painted a different colour: Peter Sam retains his original green colour from The Mid-Sodor Railway.

Unlike Peter, she can shoot organic webbing from her fingertips.