Unlike most such sports rivalries, it appeared to have developed almost spontaneously, although this was not exactly the case.

Unlike most incarnations of Miss Marple, this one smoked cigarettes.

Unlike pure metals, most alloys do not have a single melting point, but a melting range in which the material is a mixture of solid and liquid phases.

Unlike most theropods, Albertosaurus and other tyrannosaurids were heterodont, with teeth of different forms depending on their position in the mouth.

Unlike most of the early LAN systems, AppleTalk was not built using the archetypal Xerox XNS system.

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 the NES or Sega Master System, there were few add-on peripherals for the 7800, though its backwards compatibility feature allowed it to be compatible with most Atari 2600 peripherals.

Unlike the communist parties in most other East European states, the BCP ( changing its name to Bulgarian Socialist Party ) retained majority power after the transition in Bulgaria by winning the first free national elections in June 1990.

Unlike most cranes, it has a relatively large head and a proportionately thin neck.

Unlike Zealous, these British ships suffered relatively severe damage in the engagement ; Goliath lost most of its rigging, suffered damage to all three masts and received over 60 casualties.

Unlike other C-suite positions, which tend to be defined according to commonly designated responsibilities across most companies, the COO job tends to be defined in relation to the specific CEO with whom he / she works, given the close working relationship of these two individuals.

Unlike in most other role-playing games, eventual triumph of the players is not assumed.

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 feces, urine doesn't attract disease-spreading flies ( such as house flies or blow flies ), and it doesn't contain the most hardy of pathogens, such as parasitic worm eggs.

Unlike Inter-city, it stops at most or all stations between cities.

Unlike most sports, men and women compete and are ranked together.

Unlike other college football divisions and most other sports — collegiateor professional — the Football Bowl Subdivision, formerly known as Division I-A college football, does not employ a playoff system to determine a champion.

Unlike most ( private ) corporate bodies, creatures of statute cannot expand their business interests into other diverse areas.

Unlike the modern historian, most chroniclers tended to take their information as they found it, and made little attempt to separate fact from legend.

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

Unlike most amnesiacs, Leonard retains his identity and the memories of events that occurred before the injury, but loses all ability to form new memories.

Unlike most other DOS systems, it was integrated into the disk drives, not loaded into the computer's own memory.

Unlike most social canids ( but similar to African wild dogs ), dholes let their pups eat first at a kill.

Unlike the violone, however, the fingerboard of the double bass is unfretted, and the double bass has fewer strings ( the violone, like most viols, generally had six strings, although some specimens had five or four ).

Unlike most other external DOS commands, it has not been transformed into a native Win32 program.

Unlike other anime and manga, where jokes and references are often exclusory or require knowledge of Japanese culture and / or the workings and conventions of anime, Cowboy Bebop is accessible – western audiences can connect with the characters readily and more fully understand their motivations and struggles.

Unlike furigana, which indicate pronunciation, kunten indicate Japanese grammatical structures absent from the kanbun, as well as showing how words should be reordered to fit Japanese sentence structure.

Unlike other parts of the Japanese Empire, the local Japanese administration recognized the benefits of utilizing the traditional government to their advantage, given the extreme adherence the natives followed towards their clans and traditions.

Unlike traditional Japanese raku, which is mainly hand built bowls of modest design, western raku tends to be vibrant in color, and comes in many shapes and sizes.

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

Unlike the Chinese, some Japanese were even able to climb the rungs of society by setting up businesses or becoming truck farmers.

Unlike the Japanese emperor for example, Chinese political theory allowed for a change of dynasty as imperial families could be replaced.

Unlike, for example, the Japanese monarchy, Chinese political theory allowed for a change in the ruling house.

Unlike most people in East Asia, Japanese people generally do not celebrate Chinese New Year ( it having been supplanted by the Western New Year's Day in the late 19th century ); although Chinese residents in Japan still do.

Unlike North American baseball, Japanese baseball games may end in a tie.

Unlike American pro teams, Japanese professional baseball teams are usually named after their corporate owners / sponsors rather than the cities or regions in which they play.

Unlike Astro Boy, where the opening theme music was the same in both the Japanese and American versions ( with only the lyrics changed ), the Japanese and American versions of The Amazing 3 had different theme music, as well as considerably different opening and closing segments.

Unlike some of these other similar systems, Japanese era names are still in use.

Unlike the Germans and Japanese, Italians were not subjected to prosecutions by Allied tribunals.

Unlike Japanese and Chinese Toxicodendron verniciflua resin, Burmese lacquer does not cause allergic reactions ; it sets slower, and is painted by craftsmen's hands without using brushes.

Unlike the games, the anime contains darker themes such as war, blood, violence, and death ( although mostly in the Japanese version ), though it still maintains most of the cheerful and surreal themes from the games.

Unlike its Chinese and Japanese counterparts, the kumiho is always malevolent.

Unlike American cards of the same era, the cards utilized traditional Japanese pen and ink illustrations.

Unlike other cups and balls routines the Japanese magician would usually work inside, and to music.

Unlike previous Japanese trains, the Tōkaidō Shinkansen and all subsequent Shinkansen lines were standard gauge ( between the rails ).

Unlike most other Japanese department stores, the east block of Tokyu Department Store does not have retail space in the basement because of this.