Unlike Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek was socially conservative, promoting traditional Chinese culture in the New Life Movement and rejecting western democracy and the nationalist democratic socialism that Sun Yat-sen and some other members of the KMT embraced in favor of a nationalist authoritarian government.

Unlike other anime and manga, where jokes and references are often exclusory or require knowledge of Japanese culture and / or the workings and conventions of anime, Cowboy Bebop is accessible – western audiences can connect with the characters readily and more fully understand their motivations and struggles.

Unlike the western part of the Caribbean lowlands, the Mosquitia is Honduras's least-developed area.

Unlike traditional Japanese raku, which is mainly hand built bowls of modest design, western raku tends to be vibrant in color, and comes in many shapes and sizes.

Unlike Spanish-speaking western Nicaragua, the Atlantic Coast is predominantly English-speaking and was largely ignored by the Somoza regime.

Unlike in the western Churches ( e. g., Roman Catholic and Anglican ), where confirmation is typically reserved to those of " the age of reason ", chrismation in the Eastern Churches, ( including Eastern Rite Catholic Churches ), is ordinarily administered immediately after baptism, most commonly infant baptism, and immediately ( or at least shortly ) before one's first reception of Holy Communion.

Unlike much of western Washington, it has a strong tinge of social conservatism.

Unlike the real St. Olaf, which is situated in western Minnesota, the fictional St. Olaf is a Norwegian farming settlement situated in northern Minnesota.

Unlike the cloister vaults of western Europe, the corners are rounded off as they rise.

Unlike his brother subdeacons in the Byzantine Rite who wear the orar, the Western Rite subdeacon does not wear its western equivalent-the stole-which is reserved for deacons, priests, and bishops.

Unlike the other cracids, biogeography and phylogeny indicate that the extant lineages of curassows probably originated in the lowlands of the western / northwestern Amazonas basin, most likely in the general area where today, the borders of Brazil, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela meet.

Unlike other municipalities ( including the municipalities of western Tokyo ), special wards were initially not considered to be local public entities for purposes of the Constitution of Japan.

Unlike the university's main campus, the University of Toronto Scarborough is located in a suburban area, consisting of residential houses along its eastern side and urban forestry linking to Morningside Park on its southern and western side.

Unlike the western parts of Warsaw, during the World War II Praga remained relatively untouched and in the period of reconstruction of the capital was home to many ministries and public facilities.

Unlike the farming peoples who numerically dominated the larger ethnolinguistic categories, the groups in the western division of the Nganguela were cattle raisers as well as cultivators.

Unlike areas to the south and west, the area was not planed down by glaciation or covered in glacial drift, with the result that there are steep, high-walled canyons that little resembles what one normally sees in Iowa rivers in the western and southern regions of the state.

Unlike western knives, Japanese knives are often single ground, i. e., sharpened so that only one side holds the cutting edge.

Unlike the nipple piercing, that became a short lived fashion trend at the end of the 19th century ,, genital piercings were uncommon in the western world until the second half of the 20th century.

Unlike the settled western part of the island, the eastern half is mostly agricultural.

Unlike Kirby's Avalanche, where the only original music was Warning of Puyo Puyo, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine is the only western release of Puyo Puyo game to feature music from the original Puyo Puyo game.

Unlike the design that would ultimately be built, it retained the stone Beaux-Arts Registry Office on the western part of the site and also included a landscaped public space in front of it.

Unlike many western SWAT teams, Croatian Special Police officers are part-time, professional operators with no secondary duties.

Unlike most cities in western Europe, Toulouse remained prosperous throughout the period of the Migrations ( also known as Great Invasions ).

Unlike Bukharin, Stalin believed that a deep crisis in western capitalism was imminent, and he denounced the cooperation of international communist parties with social democratic movements, labelling them as social fascists, and insisted on a far stricter subordination of international communist parties to the Comintern, that is, to Soviet leadership.

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 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 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 other countries, Spain registers a comparatively small number of Doctor degree holders.

Unlike in anglo-saxon countries these are not educational programs, however ; rather, a person working towards promotion is a research assistant, employed by the department, with teaching responsibilities in addition to his research work.

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

Unlike other science olympiads, the IOI regulations specifically prohibit ranking by countries.

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

Unlike Internet market the state of the mobile market in the country is very poor, while coverage is not really an issue all carriers practice archaic methods that carriers in many developed countries have long since abolished, general prices are very high compared to other CIS and even EU countries with no change in this segment in many years in fact in some cases the prices have even increased, mobile Internet access is in no better condition with very high prices and very low monthly caps compared to extremely well developed and cheap wired Internet access.

Unlike China, which established new ties across a broad political spectrum, North Korea concentrated its diplomatic efforts in Europe with those countries with a strong communist or socialist party, such as Finland, West Germany, Sweden, and Denmark.

Unlike many South American countries, Paraguay has few mineral resources and very little history of mining success.

Unlike the uncodified British constitution, most countries that use the Westminster system have codified the system in a written constitution.

Unlike the Magic Kingdom, which as of September 22, 2012 does not serve alcohol, many stores and restaurants in the World Showcase do serve or sell alcoholic beverages from their respective countries, and beer is sold at refreshment stands throughout the park.

Unlike in the USA, military style marching bands have a strong presence in Latin American countries, especially those that have strong military traditions, most importantly of Prussian, French and Portuguese origins.

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 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 languages spoken in the other Scandinavian countries, for example Swedish and Norwegian which are North Germanic languages, Finnish is an Uralic language, and is structurally considered an agglutinative language.

Unlike the practice in some other countries, hospital-based physicians were rarely hospital employees, and also billed the provincial insurance plans on a fee-for-service basis.

Unlike most European court system ( in both common law and civil law countries ), it is unusual in American state courts to reserve very serious crimes for a court different than the one that handles all other felony cases in a given county.

Unlike the climates of most other countries at this latitude, conditions in Somalia range from arid in the northeastern and central regions to semiarid in the northwest and south.

Unlike the state supreme court, the Courts of Appeal have mandatory review jurisdiction under the informal legal tradition in common law countries that all litigants are entitled to at least one appeal.

Unlike other Commonwealth countries, the sword is a traditional naval cutlass.

Unlike the systems of most other countries, education in the United States is highly decentralized, and the federal government and Department of Education are not heavily involved in determining curricula or educational standards ( with the recent exception of the No Child Left Behind Act ).