Unlike today's farmers, vassals under feudalism were bound to cultivating their lord's land.

Unlike today's executive branches, they were assigned high-level tasks directly by senatorial decree under the authority of the SPQR.

Unlike many of today's politicians and churchleaders, she refused to accept that the breakdown of the family was inevitable and she invested every effort into standing up for the interests of vulnerable children.

Unlike today's fake and " real " books that have " jazz ' in their titles, the Modern Jazz Fake Book included no standards, but only original tunes written and recorded by jazz musicians.

Unlike today's thick, ice cream like consistency, the original milkshakes were made with sweet cream ( sometimes frozen as " ice cream "), a whole egg, flavored syrup and soda water.

Unlike the two other projects, the resulting entity lived on after the construction project that gave birth to it, and it is the direct ancestor of today's Kaiser Permanente.

Unlike today's cell phone games, which usually have to be purchased, these games came pre-installed and could not be copied or removed.

Unlike today's limited releases, seats had to be reserved, one could not simply buy a ticket at the box office and go in to watch the film.

Unlike today's wrestling games, World Tour features no create-a-wrestler mode, story mode, or ring entrances and has a limited amount of actual WCW wrestlers.

Unlike today's hallucinations, the voices of ancient times were structured by cultural norms to produce a seamlessly functioning society.

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

Unlike the Möbius strip, the Klein bottle is a closed manifold, meaning it is a compact manifold without boundary.

Unlike elsewhere in Beckett's work, no bicycle appears in this play, but Hugh Kenner in his essay " The Cartesian Centaur " reports that Beckett once, when asked about the meaning of Godot, mentioned " a veteran racing cyclist, bald, a ' stayer ,' recurrent placeman in town-to-town and national championships, Christian name elusive, surname Godeau, pronounced, of course, no differently from Godot.

Unlike a conventional land mine, the Claymore is command-detonated and directional, meaning it is fired by remote-control, shooting a pattern of metal balls into the kill zone like a shotgun.

Unlike the Old English word god ( and Old Norse ), the term () was never adopted into Christian use and survived only in a secularized meaning of " pole, beam, stave, hill " or " yoke ".

Unlike most bony fish, sharks are K-selected reproducers, meaning that they produce a small number of well-developed young as opposed to a large number of poorly developed young.

Unlike semantics, which examines meaning that is conventional or " coded " in a given language, pragmatics studies how the transmission of meaning depends not only on structural and linguistic knowledge ( e. g., grammar, lexicon, etc.

Unlike carbon nanotubes, whose motion of electrons can fall under the regime of ballistic transport ( meaning the electrons can travel freely from one electrode to the other ), nanowire conductivity is strongly influenced by edge effects.

Unlike a typeface, irregularity in the characters ' size, style and colors adds meaning to the Greek translation " beautiful letters ".

Unlike other forms of conventional financed mortgage insurance, the UFMIP on an FHA loan is prorated over a three year period, meaning should the homeowner refinance or sell during the first three years of the loan, they are entitled to a partial refund of the UFMIP paid at loan inception.

Unlike LDAP, ACAP was designed for frequent writes, disconnected mode access ( meaning clients can go offline and then resynchronize later ), and so on.

Unlike the random walk, it is scale invariant, meaning that

Unlike organs, most tissues ( with the exception of corneas ) can be preserved and stored for up to five years, meaning they can be " banked ".

Unlike her Indian cognante Saraswati ( the Sanskrit version of the Avestan word Harauhuti both words meaning the Indus River ), who was to the Indians, a goddess, Hariti to the Iranic Gandharans was originally a cannibalistic daeva or demon.

Unlike most English counties that were divided into hundreds, Yorkshire, being so large, was divided first into thrithjungar ( an Old Norse word meaning ' third parts '), which were called the three ridings ( East, North & West ) and, later, the City of York ( which lay within the city walls and was not part of any riding ).

Unlike most counties in England, which historically were divided into hundreds, Yorkshire was first divided into Thrydings, meaning ' Thirds ', which were the three historical ridings of Yorkshire and then into wapentakes.

Unlike state blue sky law, which imposes merit reviews, the ' 33 Act embraces a disclosure philosophy, meaning that in theory, it is not illegal to sell a bad investment, as long as all the facts are accurately disclosed.

Unlike divorce, it is usually retroactive, meaning that an annulled marriage is considered to be invalid from the beginning almost as if it had never taken place ( though some jurisdictions provide that the marriage is only void from the date of the annulment ).

Unlike other areas of Wales that have Anglicised versions of place names, such as Caerdydd to Cardiff, Cwmbrân ( meaning Crow Valley in English ) is the official name in both Welsh and English ; it has simply been common practice to ignore diacritics in written English.

Unlike most other children's authors, Peet did not dumb down the vocabulary of his stories, but somehow managed to include enough context to make the meaning of difficult words obvious.

Unlike most other nations, there is currently no system of merit-based promotion and relegation in the American and Canadian pyramids, meaning that the champions of USL-1 could not move up to Major League Soccer and, similarly, the worst teams in MLS were not in danger of being demoted to USL-1.

Unlike most other CityRail trains the seats in the upper and lower decks of the T sets are not reversible, but fixed, meaning that half the seats face backwards.

Unlike most hypertext systems, the main link mechanism in Guide is based on replacement, meaning that when following a link, the current node breaks open, making room for the destination node.

Unlike the large version of the Advertiser, the Laurens County Advertiser Extra is distributed free of charge, without subscription to many residents throughout Laurens County.

Unlike more conventional libraries, the subscription library was exclusive to a hundred or so subscribers ( e. g., the first on the list of subscribers was the Duke of Newcastle ).

Unlike " TV Click ", TV Weekly requires a separate subscription fee ; The Oregonian is following the example of the Houston Chronicle and other major newspapers and switching to " some form of ' opt in and pay ' TV sections ( rather than dropping the sections ) and have found only about 10 percent to 20 percent of subscribers use the sections.

Unlike the BBC's domestic channels, and some of their foreign channels paid for by the UK Foreign Office, BBC Prime was funded by subscription available either as part of a satellite package or as a stand-alone channel.

Unlike competing commercial DVR products, Microsoft does not charge a monthly subscription fee for its Media Center TV guide service.

Unlike the earlier Guthy-Renker collection, which was marketed via mail order subscription, these new sets would be aimed largely at the retail sector.

Unlike satellite radio, most Internet stations do not require a subscription ; several of the more popular ones use algorithms which allow listeners to customize the music they want to hear and select new music which may interest them.

Unlike traditional software which is conventionally sold as a perpetual license with an up-front cost ( and an optional ongoing support fee ), SaaS providers generally price applications using a subscription fee, most commonly a monthly fee or an annual fee.