However, when an Athenian took up an office, he was regarded as ' serving ' the people.

However, the invasion ended in 490 BC with the decisive Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon.

However, according to the architectural historian Vitruvius, the column was created by the sculptor Callimachus, probably an Athenian, who drew acanthus leaves growing around a votive basket.

However, Athenian citizenship excluded women, slaves, foreigners ( μέτοικοι metoikoi ), and males under 20 years old.

However, the Athenian warships participated in the battle nevertheless, and the arrival of additional Athenian warships was enough to dissuade the Corinthians from exploiting their victory, thus sparing much of the routed Corcyraean and Athenian fleet.

However, as happened to many prominent individuals in the Athenian democracy, Themistocles's fellow citizens grew jealous of his success, and possibly tired of his boasting.

However, the Athenian mission led by the Athenian general Laches is unable to offer much help.

However, while Alcibiades was away seeking supplies, the Athenian squadron was placed under the command of Antiochus, his helmsman.

However, Euripides wrote in his tragedy Ion that the Athenian queen Creusa had inherited this vial from her ancestor Erichthonios, who was a snake himself and had received the vial from Athena.

However, while Alcibiades is away seeking supplies, the Athenian squadron is placed under the command of Antiochus, his helmsman, who is routed by the Spartan fleet ( with the help of the Persians under Cyrus ) in the Battle of Notium ( or Ephesus ).

However when, later in the year, Ambracia invades Acarnania, and the Acarnanians seek help from Demosthenes, who is patrolling the Ionian Sea coast with twenty Athenian ships, he reaches the Athenian naval base in the Gulf of Corinth at Naupactus and secures it just in time to defend it against a large Spartan army from Delphi under Eurylochus which has come to assist the Ambraciots.

However, they retire when word reaches them that 60 Athenian ships from Leucas under the command of Eurymedon have been dispatched to intercept them.

However, a clash outside the walls of Mantinea with Athenian cavalry foiled this strategy as well.

However, Jeanne Reames has suggested that he descended from Athenian expatriates to Macedon.

However, by the time of his death, Adam's neoclassicism was being superseded in Britain by a more severe, Greek phase of the classical revival, as practiced by James " Athenian " Stuart.

However, he was also not an early proponent of racism either since he did specifically, in Panegyricus, make an appeal to define the Hellenes as a people sharing a common culture, albeit the Athenian one.

However, they were cut off and he and his Athenian army were overwhelmed and defeated.

However, he managed to escape from custody and a reward of one talent of gold was subsequently offered by the Athenian authorities to anyone who could claim responsibility for his death.

However, comparing them with the Spartan elite unit Hippeis () and the Athenian epheboi ( ἔφηβοι ) recruits, DeVoto estimates that trainees were inducted as full members to the Sacred Band at the ages of 20 to 21, whereupon they were given a full set of armor by their erastai.

However, the council resisted, and the Athenian people declared their support of it.

However, as Cornelius Castoriadis pointed out, other societies also kept slaves but did not develop democracy.

However, progress in EU-Belarus relations stalled in 1996 after serious setbacks to the development of democracy, and the Drazdy conflict.

However, if any democracy is not structured so as to prohibit the government from excluding the people from the legislative process, or any branch of government from altering the separation of powers in its own favor, then a branch of the system can accumulate too much power and destroy the democracy.

However, the group saw its membership fall sharply in the late 1980s, as many centre-right members moved to the rival European People's Party group, dominated by the German CDU and the ideology of Christian democracy in general.

However, due to the stance taken by the United Nations and the Organization of American States on use of military force to depose a president, most countries in the region and in the world continued to recognize Zelaya as the President of Honduras and denounced the actions as an assault on democracy.

However, " banquets " were still legal and all through 1847, there was a nation-wide campaign of democracy and / or republican banquets.

However, Finland remained an independent democracy in Western Europe.

However, the new geopolitical logic of the Cold War made possible that the former enemy Italy, a hinge-country between Western Europe and the Mediterranean, and now a new, fragile democracy threatened by the proximity of the Iron Curtain and the presence of a strong Communist party, was considered by the USA as an important ally for the Free World, and received under the Marshall Plan US $ 1, 204 million from 1947 to 1951.

However, during the revolution, the NTC has made the introduction of multiparty democracy a cornerstone of its agenda.

However, the eruption in late 1998 of fighting between Sassou Nguesso's government forces and an armed opposition disrupted the transitional return to democracy.

However a resolution of the Bar Council of India calls upon lawyers not to address the judges as ' lord ' or ' lady ', questioning the association with nobility within a constitutional democracy.

However, higher levels of social capital led to higher support for democracy.

However, in 2011 a national uprising led to the resignation of the President and the dismantling of the RCD, paving the way for a multi-party democracy.

However, exactly because the Republic was a genuine democracy, other goals of the regime were less easy to attain.

However, when India became a democracy, there have been no recorded famines.

However, in a minor concession to democracy, voters were given a choice of two MRND candidates in elections to the National Assembly.

However, now also some rural delegates were appointed to all States-Provincial ( first only true for Friesland ) and the city councils were appointed by electoral colleges which were in turn elected by a select group of male citizens of good standing and paying a certain amount of taxes, so very indirectly there was a modicum of democracy introduced to the system.

However, it was the figures of the poets Horace, Homer and Virgil, the philosopher Socrates, and the leaders Lucius Verus and Lycurgus which once graced the exedra whose political message was one of democracy and anti-tyranny.

However, it is mostly remembered for altering the political culture of post-war Germany and — with the first mass demonstrations and public protests — being a turning point from the old Obrigkeitsstaat ( authoritarian state ) to a modern democracy.

However, many critics mention that the war in Iraq had the United States lose its reputation as an icon for democracy and justice.

However, based on Tocqueville's correspondences with friends and colleagues, Marvin Zetterbaum, Professor Emeritus at University of California Davis, concludes that the Frenchman never accepted democracy as determined or inevitable.

However, since the adoption — in the period of the Spanish transition to democracy — of the current system of autonomous communities, the importance of the provinces has declined.