However, relations have diminished due to ongoing sectarian clashes between Iraq's Sunni and Shia Muslim branches, and the Lebanese Government's support of Hezbollah.

However, the Lebanese army is trying to rearm and modernize itself through new aids and purchases from different countries such as the United States, Belgium, Russia, and The Netherlands.

However, the Lebanese Civil War erupted exactly one day before the Grand Opening date on April 13.

However, as the character Wigand enters the airport, shortly before receiving his subpoena, a woman in the background is seen smoking a cigarette, also, a Lebanese soldier seen smoking briefly while Bergman is being transported to the Hezbollah meeting site.

However, because the relief depicts the Assyrian overland transport of a carved stone statue, the background buildings most likely refer to a foreign village, such as those at the foothills of the Lebanese mountains.

However, the Lebanese militia group Hezbollah resisted the treaty and 20 minutes prior to the ceremony launched mortar and rocket attacks against northern Galilee towns.

However, a careful investigation of the sequence of Phoenician port establishments on the Lebanese coast will realize a north-to-south gradient, thus, indicating an earlier age for the Phoenician Tripoli.

However, U. S. intervention in the multi-sided Lebanese civil war had disastrous consequences.

However, on January 31, 1990, Lebanese Army forces clashed again with the LF.

However, he was persuaded by members of the Lebanese parliament to remain in office for the rest of his mandate.

However, the French ambassador to Lebanon, Bernard Emié, backed her explanation that she did not hear " the offending remarks " – the discussion took place via an interpreter supplied by the Lebanese parliament.

However, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the arrival of Italian, Spanish and Arab immigrants, particularly Syrians and Lebanese, revived trade and agriculture all over the area while further enhancing the city's multicultural flavor.

However, مثل mitl, as found in Syrian and Lebanese Arabic, is also used by Palestinians in other regions.

However, in contrast to the policies of many other sectarian militias ( such as the Kataeb ), and to their own attitudes towards Palestinians, the Guardians took some care to avoid the impression of religious conflict with Lebanese Muslims.

However, apart this minority of committed idealists, the vast majority of the remainder ‘ movements ’ were actually façades or ‘ shops ’ ( Arabic: dakakin ) – slightly politicised neighbourhood militias operating under grandiose pseudo-revolutionary labels – set up by PLO factions ( mainly Fatah ) in a misguided effort to widen its base of local support among the unemployed Lebanese urban youth.

However, since the 1980s, Shi ' a Islam has been spreading rapidly after Lebanese traders set up businesses there.

However, the breaking point did not come until 1976 and the Syrian intervention in the Lebanese Civil War on the side of rightist, Maronite-led elements against the nationalist bloc and its allies in the Palestine Liberation Organization.

However, the university is open to all students, regardless of race, nationality, or creed, and has educated men and women from all sections of Lebanese society.

However the Lebanese crisis adversely affected TMA growth and operation.

However, of all the Levantine cuisines, Lebanese cuisine is by far the most popular.

However, clashes erupted between the Lebanese Forces and the Lebanese Army under the control of Michel Aoun on February 14, 1989.

However, in 1976 he withdrew his support after the Syrian invasion on the side of the Lebanese Front.

However in a later internal feud in the Lebanese Forces led by Samir Geagea to remove Hobeika from power, Pakradouni squarely sided with Geagea against Hobeika who escaped to Syrian-controlled area of Lebanon before being assassinated.

However, commonly there are delays in regulatory and legislative actions to limit the use of antibacterials, attributable partly to resistance against such regulation by industries using or selling antibacterials, and to the time required for research to test causal links between antibacterial use and resistance.

However neither the Romans nor the Goths put up much resistance to the Arab conquest of Medina Laqant in the 8th century.

However, due to Japan's well-crafted fortifications and stiff resistance, the battle lasted over two months.

However, at the end of the sixteenth century resistance and competition came up from other countries as well.

However, Byzantine resistance to the new empire meant that it was in constant struggle to establish itself.

However, the proposal to define papal infallibility itself as dogma met with resistance, not because of doubts about the substance of the proposed definition, but because some considered it inopportune to take that step at that time.

However, in this context it becomes inaccurate when the diffusion constant is low and the radiation becomes limited by the speed of light rather than by the resistance of the material the radiation is flowing through.

However, resistance groups and those who were in moral or political opposition to the Nazis were stalled by the fear of reprisals from the Gestapo.

However, the Silures were still not pacified, and Cartimandua's ex-husband Venutius replaced Caratacus as the most prominent leader of British resistance.

However, if one connects the resistors in series, then the average resistance is the arithmetic mean of x and y ( with total resistance equal to the sum of x and y ).

However real inductors have resistance ( due to the resistance of the wire and losses in core material ), and parasitic capacitance ( due to the electric field between the turns of wire which are at slightly different potentials ).

However, typically inductors have winding resistance from the metal wire forming the coils.

However, many Southerners empathized with his defiance, refusal to accept defeat, and resistance to Reconstruction.

However, the plan was met with resistance in Poland, Lithuania, and the Soviet Union, which opposed any international force in Lithuania.

However, the two countries have been unable even to reach agreement on a basic bilateral treaty ; Romania is insistent ( against determined Moldovan resistance ) that such a treaty would have to refer to Romania and Moldova's ' special relationship '.

However, the Order of Reason became less and less focused on improving the daily lives of sleepers and more concerned with eliminating any resistance to their choke-hold on the minds of humanity.

However, at least one wild potato species, Solanum fendleri, is found as far north as Texas and used in breeding for resistance to a nematode species that attacks cultivated potatoes.

However, the extreme resistance of Deinococcus radiodurans to radiation, cold, dehydration and vacuum shows that at least one known organism is capable of surviving the hazards of space without need for special protection.

However, Manfred had not lost his nerve and organized a resistance supported by his faithful Saracen troops, setting riots against the new authority.

However, many endogenous retroviruses play important roles in host biology, such as control of gene transcription, cell fusion during placental development in the course of the germination of an embryo, and resistance to exogenous retroviral infection.

However, there is continued resistance by some researchers over the application of evolutionary models to humans, particularly from within the social sciences, where culture has long been assumed to be the predominant driver of behavior.