However, Liu Bei became a powerful warlord as he was joined by Lei Xu ( 雷绪 ) and his troops numbering to tens of thousands, and soon conquered southern Jing Province without much resistance.

However, reinforcements led by Xu Huang managed to force Guan Yu's troops to retreat.

However, the letter was intercepted by an official loyal to Sun Ce, who attacked and then had Xu Gong executed.

However, the situation shifted after Cao Cao received advice from his strategist Jia Xu, who concluded that changing the general rules of succession ( primogeniture ) would be disruptive — using Yuan Shao and Liu Biao as counterexamples.

However, he was afraid to move when Cao Cao's bodyguard, Xu Chu, glared at him.

However, when Jiang stepped down on 19 September 2004, Xu Caihou, and not Zeng, became Vice-chairman.

However, Xu Shu replied, " You must visit this man in person.

However, Xu died in the same year due to illness, leaving behind a will demanding a burial in plain clothes.

However, Xu was a righteous man and refused to kill his former superior.

However, an advisor named Jia Xu suggested they should take this opportunity to launch a strike at Chang ' an since the Liang faction was actually unscathed.

However, the men under Xu were elite archers and they caused Huang a casualty of a thousand.

However, it is not stated whether general He kept the loot himself or he returned it to Xu Sheng.

However, the truth is that Jiang always spoke in favour of Xu and never abused his power to harm the latter.

However, Cao Ren, learning of Xu Huang's march, led his troops out of Fancheng to join him in an assault against Guan Yu.

However, Xu promised Liu Bei not to help Cao Cao.

However the fine distinctions made by the Qieyun were found overly restrictive by poets, and Xu Jingzong and others suggested more relaxed rhyming rules.

However, this theory does in fact fit nicely with the story told of Xu You, where the sage, upon hearing Emperor Yao's invitation to become the overseeing governor of 9 provinces, promptly washed his ears in the Ying River ( the largest tributary of the Huai River with its origin in Henan ) to show that the emperor's promise of fame and fortune had sullied his ears.

However, the sighting was brief, and Xu was in desperate straits during the descent, and while he clearly remembered seeing the body, he was unclear about where it was.

However, the road was poorly built and as result, Zhong Hui had Xu Yi beheaded.

However, Xu Chu declined, saying, " The king will soon be out ".

However Gongsun Zan eventually lost this and committed suicide killing also his wife and son Gongsun Xu.

However, Xu had discovered the remainder of the specimen from which the tail had been taken and published a description of it later that year, giving it the name Microraptor zhaoianus.

However, Li Jue's chief advisor Jia Xu suggested that they should take this opportunity to launch a strike at Chang ' an since the regime was not stabilized after the coup.

However, on the journey eastwards, there were internal disputes, and Yang Feng took this opportunity to rescue the Emperor, with the assistance of Dong Cheng and Xu Huang.

However, Bi Sheng's fragile clay types were not practical for large-scale printing.

However, Bi Sheng's fragile clay types were not practical for large-scale printing.

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.