Unlike other prophets, Obadiah does not present a “ turn or burn ” message, simply a message of inevitable doom as a consequence of previous actions.

Unlike previous wars, which were often fought mainly from fixed lines and trenches, World War II was a highly mobile war, often fought in cities, forests, or other areas where mobility and visibility were restricted.

Unlike all previous forays by the military into Ecuadorian politics, the coup of 1925 was made in the name of a collective grouping rather than a particular caudillo.

Unlike the previous generation of British film makers who had broken into directing and production after careers in the theatre or on television, the Art Cinema Directors were mostly the products of Art Schools.

Unlike previous games, which had relied purely on General MIDI for music, Hexen is also able to play tracks from CDs.

Unlike many previous first ladies, when Hoover's wife, Lou Henry Hoover, came to the White House, she had already carved out her own reputation, having graduated from Stanford as the only woman in her class with a degree in geology.

* Irish martingale: Unlike the previous designs, this very simple " martingale " does not control the height of the horse's head, but merely keeps the reins from going over the horse's head in the result of a fall.

Unlike previous recovery trends, domestic consumption has been the dominant factor of growth.

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 previous recordings, the band had little time to practice beforehand, and Black Francis wrote much of the album in the studio.

Unlike most previous definitions of Reptilia, however, Modesto and Anderson's definition includes birds.

Unlike the previous invaders, he looted, ransacked, and destroyed everything in the ancient Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa Kingdoms beyond recovery.

Unlike the previous governments, the administration decided to take a long-term view and execute market-based reforms at a gradual pace.

Unlike in previous years, passengers are generally prohibited from entering the cockpit during flight.

Unlike previous detectors, using heavy water would make the detector sensitive to two reactions, one sensitive to all neutrino flavours, which would allow a detector to measure neutrino oscillations directly.

Unlike the much more successful joint reign of Marcus Aurelius and his brother Lucius Verus in the previous century, relations were hostile between the two Severid brothers from the very start.

Unlike many previous years, he was the only performer in the entire halftime show.

( Unlike the " chessboard " opening of the previous series, this new prologue was also included in UK broadcasts of the series.

Unlike previous collections, this does not come with any printed documentation ( instead including PDF files containing the original manuals for copy protection purposes ), and the " Runs on Windows XP " blurb on the box is justified by an included copy of freeware application DOSBox, leaving many to see this edition ( and the simultaneous releases of the Police Quest, King's Quest and Space Quest collections ) as a cash-in to measure the viability of future games in the series.

Unlike the previous election, where the outcome was a foregone conclusion, Democratic-Republicans campaigned heavily for Jefferson, and Federalists campaigned heavily for Adams.

Unlike the previous beam width definitions, the D86 width is not derived from marginal distributions.

Unlike previous campaign settings, in which the calendar was frozen at a point chosen by the author, the Living Greyhawk calendar did advance one year in game time for every calendar year in real time: the campaign started in 591 CY ( 2001 ) and ended in 598 CY ( 2008 ), at which point over a thousand adventures had been produced for an audience of over ten thousand players.

Unlike previous superheroes who acquire their powers suddenly and accidentally, Paul's are the result of " painful and slow personal progress.

Unlike most Holy Roman emperors, Frederick spent few years in Germany.

" Unlike the Theodosian emperors, he tolerated all Christian sects.

Unlike subsequent official historical texts that adopted Confucian doctrine, proclaimed the divine rights of the emperors, and degraded any failed claimant to the throne, Sima Qian's more liberal and objective prose has been renowned and followed by poets and novelists.

Unlike the situation in 161, both emperors were elected as pontifices maximi, chief priests of the official cults.

Unlike the situation in 161 with Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, both emperors were elected as pontifices maximi, chief priests of the official cults.

Unlike previous emperors who had seized power in military coups d ' état ( Vespasian and Septimius Severus, both from traditional middle-class Equestrian stock ), the barracks emperors tended to be low-class commoners ( often from outlying parts of the empire ); the first barracks emperor, Maximinus Thrax, had begun his military career as an enlisted soldier.

Unlike Granada and Valencia Moriscos, they did not speak Arabic but as vassals of the nobility were granted the privilege to practice their faith relatively openly.

Unlike many gay filmmakers, Van Sant — who had long been openly gay — declined to use same-sex relationships as fodder for overtly political statements, although such relationships would frequently appear in his films.

Unlike Clan Tremere, who prefer to work in secret, the Telyavs operate openly amongst the pagan populations of Lithuania who see them as incarnations of Telyavel.

Unlike most prominent Buddhist leaders in Taiwan who have withdrawn from making political statements or have kept them private, Hsing Yun is notable in openly involving himself with Taiwanese and Chinese politics, and is a prominent supporter of the One China policy.

Unlike the KKK nightriders, they operated openly and often curried publicity.

Unlike the other Warsaw Pact leaders, Ceauşescu had not been slavishly pro-Soviet, but rather had pursued an " independent " foreign policy ; Romanian forces did not join their Warsaw Pact allies in putting an end to the Prague Spring – an invasion Ceauşescu openly denounced – while Romanian athletes competed at the Soviet-boycotted 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles ( receiving a standing ovation at the opening ceremonies and proceeding to win 53 medals, trailing only the United States and West Germany in the overall count ).

" Unlike the Ku Klux Klan ( which was defunct by then ), the Red Shirts operated openly, with members known in local areas ; they sometimes invited newspaper coverage, and their goals were political.

Unlike the secret Ku Klux Klan, the White League operated openly and were more organized.

Unlike Black Bart, Lake County ’ s other notorious thief, Buck was rash and openly flaunted his overconfident capacity.

Unlike the Major, Batou often expresses his anger at injustice and cruelty quite openly.

Unlike many openly Christian TV characters, he is clearly open-minded about sex, not only in accepting his fellow soldiers ' premarital sexual activities ( and engaging in premarital sex himself in this episode ) but in assisting the UC Sunnydale Lesbian Alliance in " Something Blue ".

Unlike the simple counting board used in elementary schools, very efficient suanpan techniques have been developed to do multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, square root and cube root operations at high speed.

Unlike his translation of the Pastoral Care, Alfred here deals very freely with his original and though the late Dr. G. Schepss showed that many of the additions to the text are to be traced not to Alfred himself, but to the glosses and commentaries which he used, still there is much in the work which is solely Alfred's and highly characteristic of his style.

Unlike traditional adhesives, UV light curing adhesives not only bond materials together but they can also be used to seal and coat products.

Unlike in Hindu and Jain sources, in ancient Buddhist texts ahimsa ( or its Pāli cognate ) is not used as a technical term.

Unlike steel, bronze struck against a hard surface will not generate sparks, so it ( along with beryllium copper ) is used to make hammers, mallets, wrenches and other durable tools to be used in explosive atmospheres or in the presence of flammable vapors.

Unlike other metals, cadmium is resistant to corrosion and as a result it is used as a protective layer when deposited on other metals.

Unlike the case of the 1541 and 1571, the low-level disk format used by the 1581 is similar enough to the MS-DOS format as the 1581 is built around a WD1770 FM / MFM floppy controller chip.

Unlike the situation in Germany, Henry I of England used the investiture controversy was to strengthen the secular power of the king.

Unlike the penis, the male variant of the clitoris, it usually does not contain the distal portion or opening of the urethra and is therefore not used for urination.

Unlike standard DECT, the low power variant enables this standard to be used in battery powered devices such as smartphone app controllable home automation or security systems.

Unlike many late-1960s clubs, which featured live bands, discothèques used the DJ's selection and mixing of records as the entertainment.

Unlike Sophocles, who established the setting and background of his plays in the introductory dialogue, Euripides used a monologue in which a divinity or human character directly and simply tells the audience all it needs to know in order to understand the subsequent action.

Unlike DLP systems ( where it is possible to use the same procedure for squaring and multiplication ) the EC addition is significantly different for doubling () and general addition () depending on the coordinate system used.

Unlike diamond, where the loupe standard, i. e. 10X magnification, is used to grade clarity, emerald is graded by eye.

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 the United States ( see American English ) and Canada ( see Canadian English ), Ireland does not have its own spelling rules and British English spelling is used throughout the island.

Unlike the d20 System and many other game systems, experience awards are in the form of character points, which have the same value as those used in character creation and can be applied directly to the character's abilities upon receipt.

Unlike the other throwing events ( shotput, discus, and hammer ), the technique used to throw the javelin is dictated by IAAF rules and " non-orthodox " techniques are not permitted.

Unlike InterSystems, MEDITECH no longer sells middleware, so MIIS and MAGIC are now only used internally at MEDITECH.

Unlike the SQL systems that emerged in the late 1970s and early 80's, MRDS used a command language only for basic data manipulation, equivalent to the or statements in SQL.

Unlike the IBM PC, which used 8 kB of system ROM for power-on self-test ( POST ) and basic input / output system ( BIOS ), the Mac ROM was significantly larger ( 64 kB ) and held key OS code.

Unlike in many mecha-featuring series, Metal Gears are not numerous or widely used ( except the small, unmanned GEKKOs ).

Unlike any other system at that time, the Odyssey² included a full alphanumeric membrane keyboard, which was to be used for educational games, selecting options, or programming ( Magnavox released a cartridge called Computer Intro!

Unlike the Globe, the Blackfriars was an indoor playhouse " and so required plays with frequent breaks in order to replace the candles it used for lighting.