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

Unlike conventional therapies, Hubbard said, Dianetics would work every time if applied properly and " will invariably cure all psychosomatic ills and human aberrations.

Unlike conventional tray distillation in which every tray represents a separate point of vapor-liquid equilibrium, the vapor-liquid equilibrium curve in a packed column is continuous.

Unlike conventional backlit flat panel displays which emit light, electronic paper displays reflect light like ordinary paper, making it more comfortable to read, and the surface has a wider viewing angle than conventional displays.

Unlike conventional microscopes, where the spatial resolution is limited by the wavelength of the particles which are used for imaging, the FIM is a projection type microscope with atomic resolution and an approximate magnification of a few million times.

Unlike conventional harmonicas, blowing and drawing produce the same notes because its tuning is closer to the note layout of a typical Asian tremolo harmonica or the Polyphonias.

Unlike its neighbouring city of Dresden this was largely conventional bombing, with high explosives rather than incendiaries.

Unlike in a conventional resistive electric circuit, where currents are best thought of as arising as a response to an applied voltage, currents in the magnetosphere are better seen as caused by the structure and motion of the plasma in its associated magnetic field.

Unlike conventional weapons of defense, the Bydo were conceived as limited range weapons with the purpose of destroying every ecological form in their path.

Unlike the rotary engine, however, radial engines use a conventional rotating crankshaft in a fixed engine block.

Unlike a conventional land mine, the Claymore is command-detonated and directional, meaning it is fired by remote-control, shooting a pattern of metal balls into the kill zone like a shotgun.

Unlike the conventional warfare methods of firing artillery into a coordinate location, the SEALs operated within inches of their targets.

Unlike many conventional telephone technologies, this does not provide power for premises equipment, nor is it suitable for direct connection to customer equipment.

Unlike the conventional cassette, a recorded song does not need to be stored as one piece on the disk, it can be stored in several fragments, similar to a hard drive.

Unlike semantics, which examines meaning that is conventional or " coded " in a given language, pragmatics studies how the transmission of meaning depends not only on structural and linguistic knowledge ( e. g., grammar, lexicon, etc.

Unlike the KMT troops, CPC shunned conventional warfare and instead engaged in guerrilla warfare against the Japanese.

Unlike other forms of conventional financed mortgage insurance, the UFMIP on an FHA loan is prorated over a three year period, meaning should the homeowner refinance or sell during the first three years of the loan, they are entitled to a partial refund of the UFMIP paid at loan inception.

Unlike conventional ovens, microwave ovens usually do not directly brown or caramelize food, since they rarely attain the necessary temperatures to do so.

Unlike conventional skin expansion techniques, however, the process of nonsurgical foreskin restoration may take several years to complete.

Unlike conventional logic gate diagrams in which inputs and outputs hold the binary values of TRUE ( 1 ) or FALSE ( 0 ), the gates in a fault tree output probabilities related to the set operations of Boolean logic.

Unlike a conventional wide bottom dinghy it is dangerous to sit or stand in the extreme ends due to the minimal displacement.

Unlike a conventional software distribution, the user compiles the source code locally according to their chosen configuration.

Unlike conventional membership recruiting / acceptance methods, the department recruits and restricts new member acceptance to bi-annual " recruit classes " in tandem with the academic semesters.

Unlike the earlier machines, the Nova 4 did not include a front panel console and instead relied on the terminal to emulate a console when needed.

Unlike the passive articulation, which is a continuum, there are five discrete active articulators: the lip ( labial consonants ), the flexible front of the tongue ( coronal consonants: laminal, apical, and subapical ), the middle – back of the tongue ( dorsal consonants ), the root of the tongue together with the epiglottis ( radical consonants ), and the larynx ( laryngeal consonants ).

Unlike most archosaurs, which have several openings in the skull in front of the eyes, in pterodactyloid pterosaurs the antorbital opening and the nasal opening was merged into a single large opening, called the nasoantorbial fenestra.

( Unlike other cohorts, the first cohort had only one javelin century, instead of a " front spear " and a " back spear " century ).

Unlike most racquet sports, such as tennis and badminton, there is no net to hit the ball over, and unlike squash no tin ( out of bounds area at the bottom of front wall ) to hit the ball above.

Unlike the front intestine, this is not lined with a cuticula but instead consists only of a single layer of epithelial tissue, which does not exhibit conspicuous indentation as is found in other animals.

Unlike most Roman generals of the late republic, Catiline offered himself to his followers both as a general and as soldier on the front lines.

Unlike in traditional skates where the blade is rigidly fixed to the boot, clap skates have the blade attached to the boot by a hinge at the front.

Unlike hockey skates, they have toe picks on the front of the blade, which are usually made out of stainless steel or aluminium with a steel runner.

Unlike its predecessors it had regular front doors instead of " suicide-style " ones.

Unlike Sherlock Holmes, however, he is totally hopeless as a detective, being sometimes unable to figure out crimes that happen right in front of his eyes.

Unlike quad skates, which have two front and two rear wheels, inline skates have four or five wheels arranged in a single line.

Unlike the contemporary Chevrolet Corvette, which used fiberglass for only exterior bodywork, the Elite also used this glass-reinforced plastic material for the entire load-bearing structure of the car, though the front of the monocoque incorporated a steel subframe supporting the engine and front suspension, and there was a hoop at the windscreen for mounting door hinges and jacking the car up.

Unlike the military, whose aircraft are not always in the same location as the tactical operators, the HRT ’ s Tactical Helicopter Unit is literally right out the front door from the HRT central command.

Unlike most of the other defensive lines it did not run all the way across Italy but was merely a bulge in front of the main Gustav Line, running over the massif of Monte Camino, enclosing the peaks of Monte Camino ( Monastery Hill ), Monte la Defensa, Monte la Remetanea and Monte Maggiore, in the territory of Rocca d ' Evandro, and Monte Sambúcaro, which stands at the border of the three regions ( Lazio, Molise and Campania ).

Unlike surfing, the rider does not utilise any sections of the wave that have started to barrel-although top wave sailors are able to incorporate aerial moves into their wave riding and will use overhanging lips to launch themselves out in front of the wave as part of this.

Unlike newspapers at that time, it used colour printing on all pages of the newspaper and did not allow advertisements covering the complete front page.

Unlike all other extant mesothelians, heptathelines do not have fishing lines in front of the entrances to the burrows that they construct, making them more difficult to find.

Unlike the blue-morph Snow Goose, the white does not extend onto the front of the neck.

Unlike the 900, the 9000 kept the ignition switch in the more conventional steering column position rather than between the front seats.

Unlike the partition function in statistical mechanics, that in quantum field theory contains an extra factor of i in front of the action, making the integrand complex, not real.

Unlike the front feet, the hind feet have short claws on all five toes and walk plantigrade.

Unlike the secretary desk, the fall front desk's desktop panel is in a perfectly vertical position when in its closed position.