However, numerous complications stalled the negotiating process, most notably during Slovenia's blockade of Croatia's EU accession from December 2008 until September 2009.

Forebears of Croatia's current Slav population settled there in the 7th century following the Avars, reportedly under instructions from Byzantine emperor Heraclius. However, that Avaro-Slavic alliance was conquered and wiped out from Croatia.

However, he lost rule of Bosnia to Croatia's Subicic clan, who were given support by Angevin pretender to the Hungarian throne as a reward for backing him in his succession claim.

However, the global financial crisis has put pressure on Croatia's public finances and the defense budget will be hard pressed to meet the modernization objectives as planned.

However, combining delegation with first-past-the-post may be a better choice because that way Charlie can give his votes to Fran instead of seeing them handed to Bob following the runoff.

However, it was dismissed out of hand by the Liberal and Bloc Québécois leaders, as they tend to be favored by the first-past-the-post system, normally being allocated a greater proportion of seats than the proportion of votes cast for them.

However, she is not the first Green Candidate to be elected under a first-past-the-post electoral system, as this was Jeanette Fitzsimons of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand in the Coromandel Electorate in 1999.

However, the vote went heavily in favour of the existing plurality voting or " first-past-the-post " ( FPTP ) system.

However on account of the ' first-past-the-post ' electoral system, the NUF's representation in the Burmese Parliament was not reflected in the seats that it obtained.

However, most of this aid has been targeted at the Federation ; the previous government of the RS was anti-Dayton and not assisted by the U. S. The election of the " Sloga " or " Unity " Coalition government, led by Prime Minister Dodik, has shifted the balance of power in the Republika Srpska ( RS ) to a pro-Dayton stance and will result in an upsurge of funding to the RS from the international community.

However, the Conservatives were still a minority in the House of Commons, and the passage of the Reform Bill required the calling of new election once the new voting register had been compiled.

However, difficulties in South Africa ( epitomised by the defeat of the British Army at the Battle of Isandlwana ), as well as Afghanistan, weakened his government and led to his party's defeat in the 1880 election.

However, they were later overtaken in the polls by the Conservatives and at the 1983 general election the Conservatives triumphed by a landslide, with Labour once again forming the opposition, while the SDP-Liberal Alliance came close to Labour in terms of votes ( a share of more than 25 %) although it only had 23 MPs compared to Labour's 209.

However, this new election could not be held on time due to delay in preparation and has been postponed to October 2006 after an agreement was reached amongst the rival parties.

However, in the run-up to the 1997 general election, Labour opposition Tony Blair was in talks with Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown about forming a coalition government if Labour failed to win a majority at the election ; however there was never any need for a coalition to be formed as Labour won the election by a landslide.

However, unlike plebeian aediles, curule aediles were allowed certain symbols of rank — the sella curulis or ' curule chair ,' for example — and only patricians could stand for election to curule aedile.

However, several CND members and supporters have stood for election at various times as Independent Nuclear Disarmament candidates.

However the appointment of the next two caliphs varied from the election of Abu Bakr.

However, Tshisekedi maintained that the result of the election was illegitimate and said that he intended also to " swear himself in " as president.

However, the Egyptian presidential election, 2012 occurred without a new constitution.

However, it was noted that foreign election observers ( including Gomes ) were not given the authority and / or documentations in order to travel and monitor rural areas of the country.

" However, on election day things had changed.

However, turnout at European Parliament elections has fallen consecutively at each election since that date, and has been under 50 % since 1999.

However, after reaching its best ever election result in 2009, the FDP's support has since collapsed.

However, it has also been argued that powerful Tammany Hall boss Jimmy Hines was able to successfully get enough votes forged to get LaGuardia unseated in this election as well.

However, because he failed to achieve a fifty percent majority, he won a runoff election on December 28, defeating the center-left candidate Álvaro Colom.

However, the elections were marred by controversy in the Senate race over the calculation of whether Senate candidates had achieved the majority required to avoid a run-off election ( in Haiti, seats where no candidate wins an absolute majority of votes cast has to enter a second-round run-off election ).

However, there is very strong optimism with the conclusion of peaceful elections during the year 2004 and the election of the reformist president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

However, in the election to the European Parliament of June 2004, the party lost both of the European Parliament seats.

However, the election may be overruled by the Magistrates ' Court if the facts suggest that the sentencing powers of a Magistrates ' Court would be inadequate to reflect the seriousness of the offence.

However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.

However, it cannot be presumed, informal though the structure of the population seems, that there are not well-defined roles within the system.

However a comparable performing digital system is more complex and can require more bandwidth than its analog counterpart.

However, physicists distinguish between atomic physics — which deals with the atom as a system consisting of a nucleus and electrons — and nuclear physics, which considers atomic nuclei alone.

However, the Mobile River system has a high incidence of endemism among freshwater mollusks and biodiversity is high.

However, an important mode of transportation is the government subsidized ' Colectivo ' cab system.

However, he thinks that these too occur out of necessity since an outside observer can see the same regularity that he would in a purely physical system.

However the original kit version lacked many features that prevented its use as a serious computer system.

However, although Apollonius came close to developing analytic geometry, he did not manage to do so since he did not take into account negative magnitudes and in every case the coordinate system was superimposed upon a given curve a posteriori instead of a priori.

However, his construction of the Gothic alphabet is based upon an entirely different modular system.

However, there is limited evidence that mistletoe's effects on the immune system help the body fight cancer .... At present, the use of mistletoe cannot be recommended outside the context of well-designed clinical trials.

However, shortly after this positive result, Kurt Gödel published On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems ( 1931 ), showing that in any sufficiently strong axiomatic system there are true statements which cannot be proved in the system.

However, the defining recommendation indicates a change to a system similar to ISO 8601 and astronomical year numbering is likely in the future.

However, as the system was reaching completion, the personal computer revolution was starting with the release of machines like the Commodore PET, TRS-80 and Apple II.

However, the game system was reviewed in 1990 in Dragon # 155 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in " The Role of Computers " column.

However infection at an intermediate stage, before the fetal immune system is fully developed, may result in a chronic infection that lingers until the first months after birth of the lamb.

However, Thomas Cavalier-Smith rejects the three-domain system and places the Archaea as a subkingdom of Bacteria.

However, they are much less toxic than their predecessors, the barbiturates, and death rarely results when a benzodiazepine is the only drug taken ; however, when combined with other central nervous system depressants such as alcohol and opiates, the potential for toxicity and fatal overdose increases.

However, in more recent years, since the end of the Bretton Woods system in 1971, with the increasing influence of Monetarist schools of thought in the 1980s, and particularly in the face of large sustained trade imbalances, these concerns — and particularly concerns about the destabilising effects of large trade surpluses — have largely disappeared from mainstream economics discourse and Keynes ' insights have slipped from view.

However, since piston-engined aircraft rely upon magnetos to provide spark to their cylinders rather than a battery powered ignition coil system, this theory is not strongly convincing.

However, today the IUPAC system of chemical nomenclature allows chemists to specify by name specific compounds amongst the vast variety of possible chemicals.

However, both of the first two markets pay into and receive benefits from the financial market, which handles and regulates the actual money in the economic system.

However, by 2009, it has been reported that $ 21 billion had been lost from the pension system to the global financial crisis.