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, 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, Xu Sheng's self-ego did not always lead to positive actions, though.

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, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.

However, in this case as elsewhere it was necessary to arrive at a single standard to be applied to all situations, representing an averaging of conditions, and thus to fix particular points in time which would be considered the dividing points between daytime and nighttime conditions.

However, the nonspecific staining by the Af in tumor sections was considered bright enough to be confused with the staining of small amounts of WTV antigen.

However, all admitted that the `` hindsight '' was not altogether lost.

However, she was able to relax and yield to the moment.

However, in this case the district manager was led to see the errors of his ways.

However, there was no real question of the justice of creating a strong Poland, both industrially and agriculturally, and one unplagued by large minorities of Germans or Russians.

However, the sovereign was not Hobbes' absolute monarch but rather the parliamentary sovereign of Austin.

However, a similar privilege was not specifically provided in section 168 for a person acquiring emergency facilities.

However, the Attorney General of California, at the request of the Secretary of Labor, sought to have the jurisdiction over the issue removed to the Federal District Court, on grounds that it was predominantly a Federal issue since the validity of the Secretary's Regulation was being challenged.

However, the Federal Court held that since the State had accepted the provisions of the Wagner-Peyser Act into its own Code, and presumably therefore also the regulations, it was now a State matter.

However nothing on four legs was supposed to be faster than a lion over a short distance, unless it was a cheetah.

However, it was virtually impossible to screen the mob outside, even if Bonner had manpower available for the purpose.

However likely it was, Pauling said, he couldn't limit himself to it.

However, Haney knew it was not a dream.

However, the confession, which was the only evidence against him, was retracted before the trial.

However, compared with March 1960 new car sales of 4,441, this March was off 23 per cent.

( However, there is little evidence that the late Lumumba was a Communist.

However, lacking requested reinforcements from McClellan, now commanding the Army of the Potomac, Pope was soundly defeated at the Second Battle of Bull Run in the summer of 1862, forcing the Army of the Potomac to defend Washington for a second time.

However Copperhead rhetoric argued that emancipation was a stumbling block to peace and reunification.

However, Plato reports that syntax was devised before him, by Prodicus of Ceos, who was concerned by the correct use of words.