However, the Canal du Midi was built using concrete in 1670, and there are concrete structures in Finland that date from the 16th century.

However, Halonen allowed Finland to join European Union Battlegroups in 2006 and the NATO Response Force in 2008.

However, Finland remained an independent democracy in Western Europe.

However, after Sweden had submitted its membership application in 1991 and the Soviet Union was dissolved at the end of the year, Finland submitted its own application to the EC in March 1992.

However, the Finnish government considered the islands to be a part of their new nation, as the Russians had included Åland in the Grand Duchy of Finland, formed in 1809.

However, both Soviet Russia and Finland had flotillas in Ladoga ( see also Finnish Ladoga Naval Detachment ).

However, the visit has shown that Finland is not only giving money-it is also interested in what is happening here ".

However, Finland maintained that as long as the athlete is not declared a professional, he must have the right to participate in the race officially.

However, Finland ’ s minister of communications, Suvi Lindén, has demanded that TeliaSonera first commit to a list of conditions pertaining to, among others, emergency calls and broadband speed, and TeliaSonera has agreed to act accordingly.

However, he escaped and returned to Saint Petersburg where he lived illegally before moving to the Grand Duchy of Finland in 1906 to finish his studies.

However, " he himself most often used the abbreviation Z. or the form Zachris, even in official contexts ", as explained in the National Biography of Finland.

However, the Finnish government refused, because Finland saw its war as a " separate war " from the Second World War, and it saw its objectives as different from those of Nazi Germany.

However, due to the cost of maintaining a circulation of low value coins, by business and the mints, Finland and the Netherlands round prices to the nearest five cents ( Swedish rounding ) if paying with cash, while producing only a handful of those coins for collectors, rather than general circulation.

However, the last city in Finland that was ordered to be built on a previously completely uninhabited land was Raahe, founded by governor general Per Brahe the Younger in 1649.

However, no known information regarding the knights ' possible activities in Finland has survived.

However, after the Great Depression in 1929, Finland was forced to abandon the gold standard following the example of Great Britain.

However, there were always great worries that the Soviets would also advance through Finland and the very sparsely defended extreme north of Sweden ( north of Kiruna, south of Treriksröset ) and attack the Lyngen position from the rear via Signaldalen.

However, according to certain family documents and correspondence, his successor as King of Finland would have been his second surviving son Prince Wolfgang of Hesse ( 1896 – 1989 ), apparently because Wolfgang was with his parents in 1918 and ready to travel to Finland, where a wedding to a Finnish lady was already in preparation for the coming Crown Prince.

However, the last city in Finland that was ordered to be built on a previously completely uninhabited land was Raahe, founded by governor general Per Brahe the Younger in 1649.

However, the capital of Finland, Helsinki, and most of the other towns in Uusimaa have now a Finnish-speaking majority.

However, areas of specialty are widely varied in scope and breadth e. g., Clinical Physiology ( also known as Physiological Measurement, several countries ), Neurophysiology ( Finland ), Medical Computing and Mathematics ( many countries ), Radiation Protection ( many countries ), and Audiology ( Netherlands ).

However it continued after the presidency due to the amount of readers it was getting and it is now seen as one of the major sources of news about Finland in English, making it popular with English-speaking immigrants to the country.

However, later research has appeared to indicate that sables never inhabited Finland in the first place, and the name nois may actually refer to the beaver.

However, the leveling operation can be maintained and controlled remotely with no mechanical or optical contact with the platform.

However, many " free " BBSes also maintained close knit communities, and some even had annual or bi-annual events where users would travel great distances to meet face-to-face with their on-line friends.

However, for at least a century, some scholars have maintained that the description of Grendel ’ s lake in Beowulf was borrowed from St. Paul ’ s vision of Hell in Homily 16 of the Blickling homilies.

However, United maintained their aggregate lead to reach the last four and were in jubilant mood as they left to catch their flight home, thinking of an important League game against Wolves at the weekend.

However, there are detailed records of various fist-fighting sports that were maintained in different cities and provinces of Italy between the 12th and 17th centuries.

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

" However, he maintained that " On the one hand we find those patients with irreversible dementia and severe cortical lesions.

However, nervous contact with the old exoskeleton is maintained till a very late stage in the process.

However, Israel maintained its control over the crossings in and out of Gaza.

However, he maintained that a certain ' materia pinguis ' or ' fatty matter ,' set into fermentation by heat, gave birth to fossil organic shapes, as opposed to fossil shells having belonged to living animals.

However, the three nations did form a loose East African Community ( EAC ) in 1967, that maintained the customs union and some common services that they had shared under British rule.

However, Riefenstahl maintained that Goebbels was upset that she had rejected his advances and was jealous of her influence on Hitler, seeing her as an internal threat ; therefore, his diaries could not be trusted.

However they are poorly maintained and are often cited as a cause for the country ’ s high rate of traffic fatalities.

However, others of late have come to favour a different hypothesis: that the Frankish Kingdom comprised several regna ( loosely translated as kingdoms ) that since ancient times had maintained different customs and dialects.

However, control is often maintained over the larger group through control of information.

However, the change had not yet been officially ratified by Britain when Rhodesia declared itself independent, and as a result, the British Government continued to refer to the breakaway colony as " Southern Rhodesia " throughout its existence, a stance it maintained regarding the June – December 1979 successor state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia.

However, it maintained a key role in civilian self-defense.

However, C language programming is much easier to obtain skilled people in, so most if not all new development is done in C. Since z / TPF allows assembler programs to be repackaged into 1 logical file, critical legacy applications can be maintained and actually improve efficiency-the cost of entering one of these programs will now come at the initial enter when the entire program is fetched into core and logical flow through the program is accomplished via simple branch instructions, instead of a dozen or so IBM instructions previously needed to perform what is known as ' core resident enter / back '.

However, there are twin cities which have been able to resist this final union and have maintained individual identity against the tides of history, economics and demographics.

However, the moving-paper H-P plotters had grit wheels ( akin to machine-shop grinding wheels ) which, on the first pass, indented the paper surface, and collectively maintained registration.

However, it maintained its political independence until the Roman conquest of Greece in 146 BC.

However, according to scholar of Islam William Montgomery Watt, the clientship of the Jewish tribes is not borne out by the historical accounts of the period prior to 627, and he maintained that the Jews retained a measure of political independence.

However, this requires the magnetic sail to be maintained in its " unstable " orientation.