However, Lü Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals, helped a merchant hit Guanyin in the hair with silver powder, which floated away in the water.

However, Cao Cao received word that Lü Bu had seized Yan Province in his absence, and accordingly he retreated, putting a halt to hostilities with Tao Qian for the time being.

However, later that year, he was able to increase his effective control over Jiao Province ( 交州, present-day northern Vietnam ) when his general Lü Dai was able to defeat the warlord Shi Hui ( 士徽 ) and end the effective independence that the Shi clan had.

However, according to one story, still unmarried by the age of 20, Lü twice took the top-level civil service exam to become a government official, but did not succeed.

However, Liu Bang's family, including Lü Zhi and her children, remained in Pei County, which was a territory of Xiang Yu's kingdom of Western Chu.

However Zhou Chang ( 周昌 ), the chancellor in Liu Ruyi's principality, whom Lü Zhi respected because of his stern opposition to Emperor Gaozu's proposal to make Liu Ruyi crown prince, temporarily protected Liu Ruyi from harm by responding to Lü Zhi's order that " The Prince of Zhao is ill and unfit for travelling over long distances.

However in 219, the alliance between Liu Bei and his ally, Sun Quan, was broken when Sun sent his general Lü Meng to invade Jing Province.

However, Lü Bu said, " This is an imperial order.

However, Liu Ying was considered to be the proper heir because his mother, the later Empress Lü, was Liu Bang's wife, while Liu Fei's mother was either a concubine or a mistress.

However, Guo Jia persuaded Cao Cao to press on and not give Lü Bu time to recuperate.

However, Zhou Yu was absent for many of Sun Ce's campaigns, whereas Lü Fan was present at each one.

However, Dong Zhuo refrained from killing Ding Yuan on the spot as the mighty warrior Lü Bu, who in the novel was the foster son of Ding Yuan, was standing closely by.

However, Lü's younger brother had surrounded the palace with armed guards, and the Han emissaries, led by Anguo Shaoji, didn't dare attack Lü.

However, Lü Dai had an imperial decree that allowed the execution of Shi Hui.

However, there is a conspiracy theory: that Lü Buwei poisoned the king or at least hastened his death, to put the next king, King Zhuangxiang of Qin onto the throne.

However Dong Zhuo's force was no match for Lü Bu.

However, a few days later Dong Zhuo had argued with Lü Bu again over Diaochan.

However, he started his career under Cao Cao before defecting to Lü Bu and was executed when the latter was defeated by Cao.

However, in 198, when Cao Cao besieged Lü during the Battle of Xiapi, Wei Xu and his colleagues, Hou Cheng and Song Xian, kidnapped Lü's chief advisor, Chen Gong, and defected to Cao's side.

However, his grandmother, now Grand Empress Dowager Lü, publicly presided over all government affairs.

However, there was not even any pretention that he was the one in charge ; Emperor Hui's mother Empress Dowager Lü ( now Grand Empress Dowager Lü ) was the one who publicly and actually controlled the political power.

However, most of the important officials disagreed – they were concerned that Liu Xiang's uncle Si Jun ( 駟均 ) was a dominating figure and that, if Liu Xiang were to become emperor, they would have a repeat of the Lü clan situation.

However, in the next visit that the researcher made to the medium, he did not receive a personal reading.

However, this inaugural feast did its sponsors no good whatever.

However, three of the managers did say that they would agree to attend the proposed meeting if all of the other managers decided to attend.

However, it did not come into general use until Joseph Greenberg ( 1963 ) formally proposed its adoption.

However, these scripts either count di-and tri-graphs as separate letters, as Spanish did with ch and ll until recently, or uses diacritics like Slovak č.

However he did not travel to the Americas or Australia, probably due to his sea sickness.

However, this did not explain similarities between different atoms, as expressed by the periodic table, such as the fact that helium ( 2 electrons ), neon ( 10 electrons ), and argon ( 18 electrons ) exhibit similar chemical behavior.

However, this action did not bolster the economy, and construction of the CPR slowed drastically due to lack of funding.

However, to minimize the extent of the movement ignores the facts that at least two Roman emperors, Constantius II and Valens, became Arians, as did prominent Gothic, Vandal and Lombard warlords both before and after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

However, he did take a great interest in the revision and practice of the law throughout the empire.

However, there is also evidence that silent reading did occur in antiquity and that it was not generally regarded as unusual.

However, Wolfram points out that at the time " Clovis got no farther than the Seine ; only after several more years did the Franks succeed in occupying the rest of the Gallo-Roman buffer state north of the Loire.

However, while Lucina did go to Alcmene, she was instructed by Juno ( Hera ) to stop the delivery.

However, Ealdred did not receive the other two dioceses that Lyfing had held, Crediton and Cornwall ; King Edward the Confessor ( reigned 1043 – 1066 ) granted these to Leofric, who combined the two sees at Crediton in 1050.

However, the people did not interpret the acts this way, and the discipline turned into judgment for the people's disobedience.

However, this did little to stem the Ottoman advance in Asia Minor.

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

However, he came to " glory " as much as he did brutality by repelling invading Carthaginians and winning the loyalty of the denizens of his land.

" However, he did not begin his philanthropic work in all earnest until 1881, with the gift of a library to his hometown of Dunfermline, Scotland.

However, it did not remain defeated long.

However, Mary II died childless in 1694, after which William III did not remarry, and Princess Anne's last surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, died six years later, after which it was unlikely she would have any more children due to her age and the large number of miscarriages she had previously suffered.

However, the Council did retain the prohibitions against eating meat containing blood, or meat of animals not properly slain, and against " fornication " and idol worship.

However, the loss of AppleTalk did not reduce the desire for networking solutions that combined its ease-of-use with IP routing.

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.