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 cismontain chaparral, which forms dense, impenatrable stands of plants, desert chaparral is open, with only about 50 % of the ground covered.

Unlike hydroponically grown plants, aeroponically grown plants will not suffer transplant shock when transplanted to soil, and offers growers the ability to reduce the spread of disease and pathogens.

Unlike higher animals and plants which have readily recognizable male and female counterparts, Basidiomycota ( except for the Rust ( Pucciniales )) tend to have mutually indistinguishable, compatible haploids which are usually mycelia being composed of filamentous hyphae.

Unlike weeds, which are unwanted plants, a volunteer may be encouraged once it appears, being watered, fertilized, or otherwise cared for.

Unlike some other plants, the palm tree has neither a tap root nor root hairs, but has a fibrous root system.

Unlike many other Rubus species, dewberries have separate male and female plants ( they are dioecious ) ( Burbank, methods and applications 3, AD 1914 ).

Unlike Ford and Mercury, the Edsel Division never had any dedicated manufacturing plants.

Unlike commercial plants, these are frequently shut down and defuelled.

Unlike animals, plants do not have germ cells set aside in early development.

Unlike the adults, the larvae are active predators, largely benthic inhabitants of the stream bed and aquatic plants.

Unlike other plant-based packaging, the bottles are compatible with standard recycling plants and represent up to a 25 % reduction in carbon emissions when compared to standard water bottles ( though this still represents 2000 times the energy usage of tap water ).

Unlike plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, they do not use water as their reducing agent, and so do not produce oxygen.

Unlike P. scalare ( mentioned above ) which prefer to spawn on the submerged leaves of plants and trees in the flooded rainforest, P. altum prefers to spawn on submerged roots and tree branches in a moderate water current.

Unlike flowering plants, tree ferns do not form new woody tissue in their trunk as they grow.

Unlike such other salicylate-bearing plants as willow ( Salix ) or poplar ( Populus ), spiraeas content of these analgesic compounds appears to be consistent from plant to plant.

Unlike the other great Dutch landscape painters, Ruisdael did not aim at a pictorial record of particular scenes, but he carefully thought out and arranged his compositions, introducing into them an infinite variety of subtle contrasts in the formation of the clouds, the plants and tree forms, and the play of light.

Unlike other plants, however, the barrel cactus usually grows towards the south ( to prevent sunburn ), hence the name " compass cactus.

Unlike their herbaceous modern cousins, these plants were medium-sized trees, growing to heights of more than 30 meters ( 100 feet ).

Unlike most multi-unit nuclear power plants, each unit at Palo Verde is an independent power plant, sharing only a few minor systems.

Unlike the seed plants, the pteridophytes have a gametophyte stage that is free-living.

Unlike in Germany, there are no dedicated power plants for railway electricity.

Unlike most flowering plants, it flowers almost all year round.

Unlike many other nuclear power plants, Calvert Cliffs did not have to utilize water cooling towers to return the hot water to its original temperature.