Unlike in the United States, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) and Industry Canada have not set any requirement for maintaining AMPS service in Canada.

Unlike their counterparts in the United Methodist Church, ELCA and ELCIC synod bishops do not appoint pastors to local congregations ( pastors, like their counterparts in the Episcopal Church, are called by local congregations ).

Unlike a number of other countries, rail travel in the United Kingdom has enjoyed a renaissance in recent years with kilometres / miles travelled matching and surpassing the highs of the 1940s ( see usage figures below ).

Unlike reforms in the United Kingdom, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia and soon to be Western Australia, this law does not have a retrospective effect, which is unpopular with some advocates of the reform.

Unlike physician-assisted suicide, withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatments with patient consent ( voluntary ) is almost unanimously considered, at least in the United States, to be legal.

Unlike the United Kingdom, traffic in Gibraltar drives on the right, as it shares a land border with Spain.

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 most other specialized international agencies, the IAEA does much of its work with the Security Council, and not with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

Unlike other United Nations specialized agencies, the International Labour Organization has a tripartite governing structure — representing governments, employers and workers ( usually with a ratio of 2: 1: 1 ).

Unlike other tribes who exchanged land grants, the Chickasaw were to receive mostly financial compensation of $ 3 million from the United States for their lands east of the Mississippi River.

Unlike the United States, Canada has no nationwide coast-to-coast Interstate highway system.

Unlike Yosemite, there was no state government that could assume stewardship of the land, so the federal government took on direct responsibility for the park, the official first national park of the United States.

Unlike the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom or the President of the United States who can appoint his own government cabinet, the General Secretary of the Central Committee, in the post-Stalin period, could not appoint new members to the Politburo without support from a majority within the Politburo itself.

Unlike most sports, the essence of professional wrestling's roots can still be seen all over the United States.

Unlike the United States, saluting is not a constant part of day to day barracks life.

Unlike in the United Kingdom, the books have always had very limited popularity in the United States.

Unlike Senators and Representatives who are constitutionally prohibited from holding any other " office of trust or profit " of the United States or of any state while holding their congressional seats, the Chief Justice and the other members of the federal judiciary are not barred from serving in other positions.

Unlike higher education in Europe, there was no national curriculum for colleges and universities in the United States.

Unlike most nearby emirates, Qatar declines to become part of either the United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia.

Unlike the period prior to the war, immigration was now directed at Europe and more specifically to the United Kingdom and Ireland, not from the United States, which was the largest source of immigration before the war.

Unlike Blur, Oasis were able to achieve sustained sales in the United States thanks to the singles " Wonderwall " and " Champagne Supernova ".

Unlike many civil law countries which have some courts on which panels of judges with nearly equal status composed of both legally trained professional judges and lay judges who lack legal training and are not career judges, the United States legal system ( like most Anglo-American legal systems ) makes a clear distinction between professional judges and laymen involved in deciding case who are jurors who are part of a jury.

Unlike in some Westminster system parliaments, in which the office of speaker is considered to be non-partisan, in the United States the speakership of the House is a leadership position in the majority party and the office-holder actively works to set that party's legislative agenda ; the office is therefore endowed with considerable political power.

Unlike in the United States the name ( John ) Doe does not actually appear in the formal name of the case, for example: X & Y v Persons Unknown HRLR 4.

Unlike the United States Lanham Act, 1946 the English Trade Marks Act, 1994 and the Indian Act, 1999 do not have provisions like section 43 ( a ) ( of Lanham Act ) to protect un-registered trade dress or allow registration of trade dress which qualifies the tests of distinctiveness and source identifier.

Unlike Eastern Europe, where Jews constituted a distinct minority group, the United States offered Jews an opportunity to blend into the dominant culture.

Unlike the New Deal, which was a response to a severe financial and economic calamity, the Great Society initiatives came just as the United States ' post-World War II prosperity was starting to fade, but before the coming decline was being felt by the middle and upper classes.

Unlike large established vineyards in other parts of the United States and Europe, the growers and winemakers of Washington will often devote personal attention to visitors, offering tastings and discussing their craft.

Unlike state courts, federal courts are courts of " limited jurisdiction ", that can only hear the types of cases specified in the Constitution and federal statutes ( primarily federal crimes, cases arising under federal law, cases with a United States government party, and cases involving a diversity of citizenship between the parties ).

Unlike other ' schools ' or styles that emerged around the turn of the 18th to 19th century in the United States, the early Taos Colony artists were not united under a single manifesto or aesthetic modus, but equally lured by the stunning and, as yet, foreign environs.

Unlike most wildflowers of the United States and Canada ( other than orchids and lilies ), spiderworts are monocots and not dicots.

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 some of their continental European counterparts, the Monarch and her Governors-General in the Commonwealth realms hold significant " reserve " or " prerogative " powers, to be wielded in times of extreme emergency or constitutional crises usually to uphold parliamentary government.

Unlike in many other European countries, the general image of Święty Mikołaj in Poland is basically no different to the one of the Anglo-Saxon Santa Claus ( he is said to live in the North Pole, wear red clothes and a white beard, use reindeers to pull his sleigh, or enter houses via the chimney ).

Unlike Denmark proper, Greenland is no longer part of the European Union.

Unlike most European countries the Czech gun law allow its citizens to carry a concealed weapon without having any specific reason.

Unlike most European Monarchies which practised primogeniture, the Timurids, following Genghis Khan's example, did not leave an entire kingdom to the eldest son.

Unlike Switzerland however ( where citizens rejected membership in a referendum ), Liechtenstein is part of the European Economic Area.

Unlike other mozzarellas — 50 % of whose production derives from non-Italian and often semi-coagulated milk — it holds the status of a protected designation of origin ( PDO 1996 ) under the European Union.

Unlike their European counterparts, manual transmissions have disappeared due to lack of demand ; 1995 was the last year for a manual transmission in the Ford Aerostar and Chrysler minivans while GM had previously discontinued the manual transmission in the Chevrolet Astro and GMC Safari.

Unlike similar national rail information sites in other European states, the site is not available in foreign languages, nor is it available in Welsh despite this being an official language of the UK.

Unlike many other European presidents, the office of the French President is quite powerful.

Unlike many other Eastern European cars of the communist era ( notably the Lada Riva, Skoda Estelle, Polski Fiat and Yugo ), however, it was not a strong seller in Western Europe.

Unlike other European nations, the Portuguese regime did not leave its African colonies, or the overseas provinces, during the 1950s and 1960s.

Unlike the Rwandan monarchy, which decided to accept the German advances, the Burundian king Mwezi IV Gisabo opposed all European influence, refusing to wear European clothing and resisting the advance of European missionaries or administrators.

Unlike many other medieval chronicles written by European monks, the Tale of Bygone Years is unique as the only written testimony on the earliest history of East Slavic people.

Unlike in other European countries of the time, the nobility in Bohemia was not a part of the literary audience and thus this split of literary effort led to a certain lack of development and stagnation of Czech baroque literature in comparison to other European countries of the time, especially in genres that were written for noble courts.

Unlike the European scholars who came after him, Averroes argued that rhetoric and poetics were both part of Aristotle's work on logical thought.

Unlike the commoner status of a British peer's wife and descendants ( yet typical of the nobility of every continental European country ), the legitimate children and male-line descendants of any French nobleman ( whether titled or not, whether possessing a French peerage or not ) were also legally noble ad infinitum.

Unlike traditional Western societies of the time, many Caribbean pirate crews of European descent operated as limited democracies.

Unlike France, some European states ( in their modern forms ) are postempire creations within the past century.

Unlike previous laws ordering meat inspections, which were enforced to assure European nations from banning pork trade, this law was strongly motivated to protect the American diet.