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 maintained capitalism unlike most other countries bordering the Soviet Union.

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, his subject matter and basic themes have remained surprisingly consistent, and these, together with certain key poetic images, may be traced through all his work, including the new jazz experiments.

However, the litter remained, augmented by several dozen lunchroom suppers.

However, only a very small percentage of all these people has remained in Angola, either for personal reasons ( intermarriage ) or as professionals ( e. g. medical doctors ).

However, in a decision of great historic significance, the Persian king Darius the Great decided that, despite successfully subduing the revolt, there remained the unfinished business of exacting punishment on Athens and Eretria for supporting the revolt.

However, " Bryozoa " has remained the more widely used term for the latter group.

However, he would take office with a group of men who possessed little or no official experience, who had rarely felt moved to speak in the House of Commons before, and who, as a group, remained hostile to Disraeli on a personal level, his assault on the Corn Laws notwithstanding.

However, the parting was amicable as Kahn remained on the Borland board until November 7, 1996, when he resigned from that position.

However, certain Zarubintsy elements remained, found scattered throughout neighbouring areas of eastern Europe.

However, they remained sitting on the government benches supporting it in Parliament, though in the country local Liberal activists bitterly opposed the government.

However, the Ionian Revolt had directly threatened the integrity of the Persian empire, and the states of mainland Greece remained a potential menace to its future stability.

However, during the 16th and 17th centuries, Cairo remained an important economic and cultural centre.

However, the success did not last and Lajoie resigned during the 1909 season as manager but remained on as a player.

However, the anti-terrorist measures of it remained in force.

However, as mentioned above, unemployment has remained high at over 40 percent in recent years.

However, it remained poor and neglected, particularly in contrast with its western, French neighbor Saint-Domingue, which became the wealthiest colony in the New World and had half a million inhabitants.

However, construction remained focused on putting the biggest possible engines into a small hull, resulting in a somewhat flimsy construction.

However, relations with Moscow have remained strained primarily because Russia decided not to ratify the border treaty it had signed with Estonia in 1999.

However, the Union complex as a whole remained in rebel hands.

However with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1814 the region was handed back to the French, though a Portuguese presence remained until 1817.

However there remained multiple ideologies and governments that were ideologically related to fascism.

However, Fujiwara princes remained close advisors, regents and ministers to the emperors for centuries, even until the 20th century ( Prince Konoe and Morihiro Hosokawa ).

However, Price and Coleman married in 2007 ; and while they divorced in 2008, Price claimed in a court petition that she remained Coleman's common-law wife, sharing bank accounts and presenting themselves publicly as husband and wife, until his death ; an assertion that, if validated by the court, would make her the lawful heir.

However, these internal departments remained and the Gestapo continued to be a department under the RSHA umbrella.

However, the southern provinces ( present day Belgium ) remained under Habsburg rule, Holland benefiting greatly from the resulting eclipse of Flemish cities and massive influx of refugees.

However, sufficient numbers of moriscos stayed that Muslim culture remained influential in Spain.