Unlike with differential hardening, there is no distinct boundary between the harder and softer metals, but the change form hard to soft is very gradual, forming a continuum, or " grade " ( gradient ), of hardness.

Unlike Porlock Hill, this section is relatively straight down into Lynmouth village where there is a bridge over the river and a sharp left turn, however the gradient at the foot is also 25 % for a short distance.

Unlike many alternate histories, these stories tend to focus on points of divergence far back in the past.

Unlike its Marvel Comics counterpart What If ...?, which bases its stories on a single point of divergence from the regular continuity, most Elseworlds stories instead take place in entirely self-contained continuities, with the only connection to the canon DC continuity being the presence of familiar DC characters.

Unlike the English Springer Spaniel and English Cocker Spaniel, there is no divergence into show and field types of the breed.

Unlike its relatives, the aardwolf does not hunt large animals ; instead it eats insects, mainly termites-one aardwolf can eat about 200, 000 termites during a single night by using its long, sticky tongue to capture them.

Unlike its predecessor DES, AES does not use a Feistel network.

Unlike other self-governing Australian territories ( e. g. Norfolk Island, Northern Territory ), the ACT does not have an Administrator.

Unlike many other statistics, a player's OPS does not have a simple intrinsic meaning, despite its usefulness as a comparative statistic.

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 a computer virus, it does not need to attach itself to an existing program.

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 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 the system described above, the astronomical system does not consider years, it only counts days.

Unlike in a piano action, the tangent does not rebound from the string ; rather, it stays in contact with the string as long as the key is held, acting as both the nut and as the initiator of sound.

Unlike in many other Christian countries, St. Nicholas does not play a major role in Polish Christmas, but instead, is celebrated on his Saint feast day of December 6.

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 Swedish and Norwegian, Danish does not have more than one regional speech norm.

Unlike the neighboring Continental Scandinavian languages, the prosody of Danish does not have phonemic pitch.

Unlike other heliozoans, the microtubules are not in any regular geometric array, there does not appear to be a microtubule organizing center, and there is no distinction between the outer and inner cytoplasm.

Unlike baryonic dark matter, nonbaryonic dark matter does not contribute to the formation of the elements in the early universe (" Big Bang nucleosynthesis ") and so its presence is revealed only via its gravitational attraction.

Unlike other, more traditional forms of higher education, open education generally does not offer recognized degrees.

Unlike the TEM, where electrons of the high voltage beam carry the image of the specimen, the electron beam of the scanning electron microscope ( SEM ) does not at any time carry a complete image of the specimen.

Unlike many object-oriented languages, but like Smalltalk, Eiffel does not permit any assignment into fields of objects, except within the features of an object, which is the practical application of the principle of information hiding or data abstraction, requiring formal interfaces for data mutation.

Unlike all subsequent Pauline epistles, 1 Thessalonians does not focus on justification by faith or questions of Jewish-gentile relations, themes that are covered in all other letters.

Unlike foil and sabre, Épée does not use " right of way ", and allows simultaneous hits by both fencers.

Unlike many other P2P applications Freenet does not provide comprehensive functionality itself.

Unlike denaturing methods, such as SDS-PAGE, native gel electrophoresis does not use a charged denaturing agent.

Unlike most mammals, the mare does not have an increase of LH right before ovulation.

Unlike Brezhnev, who possessed several mansions and a fleet of luxury cars, he lived quite simply.

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 retrograde amnesia ( which is popularly referred to simply as " amnesia ", the state where someone forgets events before brain damage ), dissociative amnesia is not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance ( e. g., a drug of abuse, a medication, DSM-IV Codes 291. 1 & 292. 83 ) or a neurological or other general medical condition ( e. g., Amnestic Disorder due to a head trauma, DSM-IV Codes 294. 0 ).

Unlike what most people think business continuity is not necessarily an IT system or process, simply because it is about the business.

Unlike saints or angels however, they are not simply prayed to, they are served.

Unlike the visas available to other countries, TN status requires no sponsorship, but simply a job offer letter.

Unlike other dangerous animals, moose are not territorial, and do not view humans as food, and will therefore usually not pursue humans if they simply run away.

Unlike computers, however, Mentats are not simply calculators.

Unlike his execution of historians, done to control his legacy and symbolism, Leto never says why he suppresses Mentats, leaving the reader to conclude that it simply plays a role in his larger purpose of oppressing humanity in order to create his Golden Path.

Unlike past popes, Innocent III displayed interest in leading the crusade himself, rather than simply instigating it and allowing secular leaders to organize the expedition.

Unlike code documents, user documents simply describe how a program is used.

Unlike an electrostatic ion thruster, PIT requires no electrodes ( which are susceptible to erosion ) and its power can be scaled up simply by increasing the number of pulses per second.

Unlike in other parliamentary legislatures, the Bundestag cannot remove the chancellor simply with a Motion of No Confidence.

:: Example: Unlike the Confrontation Clause, those provisions are of no use to the defendant when the witness is unavailable or simply refuses to appear.

Unlike Military Bases where the US Congress simply changed the law in 1986, Washington, DC, had to get Constitutional Amendment passed ( Amendment 23 ) to restore US Presidential elections, after 164-year gap.

Unlike the characters played by Rollins and Johnson, Thorne's character simply vanished with no explanation for why he was absent from the show.

Unlike other algorithms, which simply output a " best " label, oftentimes probabilistic algorithms also output a probability of the instance being described by the given label.

Unlike many stars who simply greeted audiences with a few words before the screening of their film, Morris was comfortable on stage and presented an entire vaudeville magic act, featuring live animals and larger stage feats such as nearly severing an audience volunteer's head in a prop guillotine.

Unlike Austria, neither country had any secret territorial ambitions, they both simply sought the removal of Napoleon.

Unlike the previous offices, which were simply head of government or prime minister, the President of the Republic was explicitly declared to be the Irish Republic's head of state.

Unlike Donkey Kong Country 2, rather than simply having to track down the hidden coin, the player must solve a small puzzle involving using a rolling barrel to strike an enemy using the coin as a shield from behind.

Unlike proprietary software titles, the main output of the project is simply the release of a collection of software source code.

Unlike the FCC approach where a standard was simply selected from the existing candidates, the NTSC would produce a board that was considerably more pro-active in development.