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 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 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 modern systems, which can be applied to widely different databases and needs, the vast majority of older systems were tightly linked to the custom databases in order to gain speed at the expense of flexibility.

Unlike other versions of the character, Shea's Lex has a full head of hair for the majority of the series.

Unlike the Gemara, which is written primarily in Aramaic, the majority of the Mishnah is written in Hebrew.

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 the majority of species in the class arachnid, which are oviparous, scorpions seem to be universally viviparous.

Unlike his father and the majority of his branch of the family, Ieyasu's father, Hirotada, favored the Imagawa clan.

Unlike the majority of the Texian volunteers, the Greys looked like soldiers, with uniforms, well-maintained rifles, adequate ammunition, and some semblance of discipline.

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 the majority of the pretenders during the Crisis of the Third Century, Valerian was of a noble and traditional senatorial family.

Unlike federal courts, where judges are Presidential appointees confirmed by the U. S. Senate serving life terms of office, the vast majority of states have some judges who are elected, and the methods of appointment for appointed judges vary widely.

* Unlike those in Spain, the Anarchists lost popularity and significance due to the nationalism brought about by World War I and lost the CGT majority.

Unlike many rural counties throughout Southeast Missouri, Perry County is exempt from the Bible Belt with Roman Catholicism being the majority religion, according to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ).

Unlike the Charter, it was an ordinary Act of Parliament, which could be amended by a simple majority of Parliament, and it was applicable only to the federal government.

Unlike the majority of the islands of French Polynesia, the Marquesas are not surrounded by protective fringing reefs.

Unlike terrestrial ecosystems, the majority of primary production in the ocean is performed by free-living microscopic organisms called phytoplankton.

Unlike the majority of naval officers, Villaret did not emigrate during the Revolution.

Unlike an enormous majority of planets, the Stargate on Earth was kept secret from the general populace to prevent widespread panic because " we are not alone ".

Unlike other states, most of which require a two-thirds supermajority to override a veto, the Indiana General Assembly may override the veto with only a simple majority vote in both chambers.

Unlike stocks and shares, the majority of transactions in the philatelic or stamp market take place informally, by mail order or in retail environments, and therefore the size of the market is hard to determine.

Unlike the majority of police forces in the United Kingdom, the PSNI is the only territorial police force that routinely arms all of its officers.

Unlike most national newspapers, the Daily Star has limited articles on politics and has rarely shown clear support for any specific party or leader ; although in the run-up to the 2010 general election the newspaper printed several articles which hinted that it wanted to see Labour and Gordon Brown voted out of power, while at the same time it offering no explicit support for the Conservatives or their leader David Cameron – who ultimately became Prime Minister following the formation a new coalition government with the Liberal Democrats when his party failed to gain an overall majority in parliament.

Unlike many other early mammals, Morganucodon is well represented by abundant and well preserved, though in the vast majority of cases disarticulated, material.

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 the Bosphorus, the Dardanelles has fewer settlements along its shores.

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

Unlike other hobbyist computers of its day, which were sold as kits, the Apple I was a fully assembled circuit board containing about 60 + chips.

Unlike other sympathetic ganglia, however, the adrenal medulla lacks distinct synapses and releases its secretions directly into the blood.

Unlike that, the speed of light is constant and only its direction changes.

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

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

Unlike in soccer, the convention in rugby is for the home side to accommodate its guests when there is a clash of kit.

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 traditional HTML with its large range of character entity references, in XML there are only five predefined character entity references.

Unlike its neighbours, Costa Rica has not endured a civil war since 1948.

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 Common Lisp, Scheme existed at the time Stallman was rewriting Gosling Emacs into GNU Emacs, but he chose not to use it because of its comparatively poor performance on workstations, and he wanted to develop a dialect which he thought would be more easily optimized.

Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening.

Unlike any other national cinemas, which developed in the context of relatively continuous and stable political systems, Germany witnesses major changes to its identity during the 20th Century.

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 Dungeons & Dragons, the other approach to fantasy role-playing which traces its roots back to the 1960s and which derives from the wargaming scene, the roots of Glorantha lie in experiments with mythology, storytelling, and recreation and blending of ancient societies.

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

Unlike the other gas giants, Uranus has an extreme tilt that causes its seasons to be severely pronounced.