And unlike radio-controlled aircraft, rockets were all but invulnerable to jamming or interception.
Unlike chess, or unlike a lot of games, in bridge if you're a bad partner, it's going to materially affect the result the two of you get based on your skill alone.
Both blends, notes Mr Woolsey approvingly, need little new infrastructure to support them (unlike, say, hydrogen fuel-cell cars).
But unlike biodiesels based on soya or other plants, it does not divert crops or land from food production into fuel production.
One Texas drugstore clerk explained that Mexicans, unlike blacks, were allowed to drink at the soda fountain. But if they wanted a table they would be seated apart from whites.
Syria, unlike Libya, is a hub of the Arab world.
If that's not zero, unlike the ideal case, now unlike before, where we just had entropy driving the mixture, now there's an energy of mixing.
The characters in a subsequence, unlike those in a substring, do not need to be contiguous.
An experienced fossil hunter, li split the slab and beheld a creature unlike any he had seen.
I enjoy tuning in to a language that, unlike Hungarian, has familiar sounds: "buna seara" (good evening); "la revedere" (goodbye); "scuze" (excuse me).
This is necessary because unlike a real jigsaw or a machine-shredded document, in which the pieces fit perfectly, the shreds of a torn document are slightly distorted and frayed at the edges.
Japan's auto industry has been battered by disasters natural and unnatural unlike this year.
“The nature and pattern of these skeletal injuries were unlike anything colleagues and I had seen before, ” Murphy says.
This suggests that Sultan, unlike previous rulers, will be legally bound to give way on this crucial point to the wider family's wishes.
But, unlike in America, he cannot veto bills.
Interestingly, unlike most ancient sanctuaries, the Israelite sanctuary did not contain a statue of the deity.
The process does endow the polymer to conduct heat in only one direction, however, unlike metals which conduct equally well in all directions.
But unlike any normal consulate, his visitors are dead.
In the world's temperate zones, where drab plumage is the norm, this kingfisher, unlike its North American cousins, bedazzles.
“Europe at the start of the third millennium is living through a cultural revolution not unlike that of the first, ” writes Mr Aillagon in the preface to the exhibition catalogue.
Vietnam had only begun opening when Asia's 1997 economic storm hit, so, unlike some of its neighbours, it was largely unscathed, and growth has accelerated since.
Mr Bing, unlike so many of his predecessors, is wonderfully frank.
Britain, unlike France, does not have a formal privacy law.
The resulting fish grows during the summer as well as during the winter months, unlike an ordinary salmon.
Tom Rachman’s first novel is set in Rome, on a once-mighty American-owned international newspaper, surely quite unlike the (Paris-based) International Herald Tribune, where he used to work.
"The rollercoaster is wooden and so unlike rides made from iron and steel there was always a chance of the odd nail or screw that would not be entirely flat," he said.
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