Unlike earlier adaptations that were set during the time in which the novels were written, however, these TV movies were set in the contemporary era.

Unlike earlier texts like Recipes for Fifty-Two Ailments, which was excavated in the 1970s from a tomb that had been sealed in 168 BCE, the Inner Canon rejected the influence of spirits and the use of magic.

Unlike many earlier Lisps, Common Lisp ( like Scheme ) uses lexical variable scope by default for both interpreted and compiled code.

Unlike her predecessor Mary Cassatt, who had arrived near the beginning of the Impressionist movement 15 years earlier and who had absorbed it, Beaux's artistic temperament, precise and true to observation, would not align with Impressionism and she remained a realist painter for the rest of her career, even as Cézanne, Matisse, Gauguin, and Picasso were beginning to take art into new directions.

Unlike the hapless Quito junta of a decade earlier, the Guayaquil patriots were able to appeal to foreign allies, Argentina and Gran Colombia, each of whom soon responded by sending sizable contingents to Ecuador.

Unlike the five earlier General Councils held in Rome, which met in the Lateran Basilica and are known as Lateran Councils, it met in the Vatican Basilica, hence its name.

Unlike the earlier Mk. I-III cars, which were built in England, the Mk. IVs were built in America by Shelby American.

Unlike the later Gilbert and Sullivan works, it was hastily prepared, and its nature was more risqué, like Gilbert's earlier burlesques, with a broader style of comedy that allowed for improvisation by the actors.

Unlike the earlier usurper, Albinus, he succeeded in using his base in Britannia as the starting point of his march to the imperial throne.

Unlike earlier laws, it was written in Akkadian, the daily language of Babylon, and could therefore be read by any literate person in the city.

Unlike many of its more export-dependent neighbors, it has managed to skirt the recession, helped by strong domestic demand ( which makes up about two-thirds of the economy ) and a government fiscal stimulus package of about 1. 4 % of GDP, announced earlier this year.

Unlike earlier works of interactive fiction which only understood commands of the form ' verb noun ', Infocom's parser could understand a wider variety of sentences.

Unlike earlier anti-colonial movements, Islamic Jihad directed its attacks against what it believed were " apostate " leaders of Muslim states, leaders who held secular leanings or who had introduced or promoted Western / foreign ideas and practices into Islamic societies.

Unlike most citrus species, the oval kumquat has a shorter growth period, and goes into dormancy fairly earlier in autumn.

Unlike the earlier leftist focus on union activism, the " New Left " instead adopted a broader definition of political activism commonly called social activism.

Unlike the earlier two cuisines, which were brought by the ruling class such as nobles, aristocrats and bureaucrats, and then spread to the general populace, the introduction of Shandong cuisine begun with serving the general populace, with much wider market segment, from wealthy merchants to the working class.

Unlike earlier pterosaurs such as Rhamphorhynchus and Pterodactylus, Pteranodon had toothless beaks, similar to those of modern birds.

Unlike the earlier Bohr model of the atom, however, the wave model describes electrons as " clouds " moving in orbitals, and their positions are represented by probability distributions rather than discrete points.

Unlike many earlier serials which were set in fictional towns, Ryan's Hope was set in real location, New York City, and outside shoots were used to give the series greater authenticity.

Unlike earlier attempts, the convention was not meant for new laws or piecemeal alterations, but for the “ sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation ”.

Unlike his earlier town villas Corbusier was able to carefully design all four sides of the Villa Savoye in response to the view and the orientation of the sun.

Unlike most earlier display protocols, X was specifically designed to be used over network connections rather than on an integral or attached display device.

Unlike the Ante-Nicene Fathers which was produced by using earlier translations of the Ante-Nicene Christian Library ( ANCL ), the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers was printed simultaneously in Europe and in America, by T. & T. Clark, by Christian Literature Company and other American editors.

Unlike his earlier son Liudolf, whom Otto I named Duke of Swabia in 950, Otto II was granted no area of responsibility.

Unlike finite-state machines, there exists no general algorithm of turning a NPDA into an equivalent DPDA if it exists, because that is the problem of determining whether a context-free language is deterministic, which is not decidable.

* Unlike Enigma, Typex I machines were linked to teleprinters while Typex II machines could be if required.

Unlike old-fashioned pachinko machines that offer a full payout or a kakuhen for any type of jackpot earned, these machines require players to hit a kakuhen jackpot with a certain probability in order to get a full payout.

Unlike those machines, the Sorcerer's keyboard was a high quality unit with full " throw ".

Unlike most S-100 CP / M machines of its era, the Sorcerer did not have any internal expansion slots, and everything that was needed for basic computing was built-in.

Unlike the beat frequency oscillator or the induction balance machines which both used a uniform alternating current at a low frequency, the pulse induction machine simply fired a high-voltage pulse of signal into the ground.

Unlike in a conventional front loader, the lift arms in these machines are alongside the driver with the pivot points behind the driver's shoulders.

Unlike the analog Nagras, the Nagra V digital recorders have not been adopted as readily for the motion picture and TV industries, which mostly use competing digital multi-track machines such as the Aaton Cantar, the Fostex PD-6, the Sound Devices 744T and the Zaxcom Deva ( as of the mid-2000s ).

Unlike a drill press, which holds the workpiece stationary as the drill moves axially to penetrate the material, milling machines also move the workpiece radially against the rotating milling cutter, which cuts on its sides as well as its tip.

Unlike his namesake, Frankenstoat built machines to aid a bid for world domination rather than attempting to create life.

Unlike earlier microcoded machines, the first RISC machines had no microcode.

Unlike the Nintendo machines of the time, the Sega machines used a common D-subminiature connector and standard protocol, enabling their pads to be used on different systems.

Unlike earlier keypunch machines, the program cards were read into memory via the regular card-feed path, and were not wrapped around a " program drum ".

Unlike earlier IBM tabulating machines, which had one read brush per column at each read station, the 407 had 960 brushes at each station, one for each possible hole in a punched card.

Unlike standard lockstitching, which uses a bobbin, overlock sewing machines utilize loopers to create thread loops for the needle to pass through, in a manner similar to crocheting.

Unlike the short half-life of oxygen-15 ( 2. 25 minutes ), the 110 minute half-life of FDG allowed PET scans by machines physically distant from the cyclotron producing the isotope ( in this case fluorine-18 ).

Unlike many early flying machines, the Éole did not attempt to fly by flapping its wings, but was to rely on the lift generated by its wings ( mechanical copies of bat wings ).

Unlike earlier compression-compression machines, which used air as a coolant, Carré's equipment contained rapidly expanding ammonia.

Unlike fictional machines that can open a combination in seconds, such machines are usually specific to a particular type of lock and must cycle through thousands of combinations to open a device.