However, Chiang's allied commander Zhang Xueliang, whose forces were used in his attack and whose homeland of Manchuria had been recently invaded by the Japanese, did not support the attack on the Communists.

However, Zhang was barred from assisting the committee due to his controversial views on apocrypha and his objection to the relegation of Emperor Gengshi's ( r. 23 – 25 ) role in the restoration of the Han Dynasty as lesser than Emperor Guangwu's.

However, Emperor Zhang later reinstated the Sifen calendar.

However, a number of regional governors including Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong quietly refused to cooperate.

However, the Muslim merchant Fu Shougeng refused their request, prompting Zhang to confiscate Fu's properties and flee on stolen boats with the Song court.

However, with the interference of Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, Zhuge Liang decided to pardon Guan Yu on account of his past contributions.

However, in this case, the number of troops under Xiahou Dun's command might not amount to 325, 000, because there were flexibility on forming a jun ), along with Zhang Liao at Hefei, to resist Sun Quan.

However, Zhang Liao soon fell sick at the edge of a battle against Wu, a new state that Sun Quan founded.

However, opponents of the project such as Professor Zhengchun Zhang of Lanzhou University feared the measure will destroy the ecology of the park, which depends on the water seepage from the lakes and the connection between the lakes and the underground water system.

However, in the biographies of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, Zhang He surrendered to Cao once he heard Wuchao was attacked ; and his action served as a catalyst for the breakdown of Yuan's massive army.

" However, in Cause: The Birth of Hero – a documentary on the making of Hero – Zhang mentions that he hopes the film will have some contemporary relevance, and that, in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks ( which took place just before the movie was filmed ) the themes of universal brotherhood and " peace under heaven " may indeed be interpreted more globally, and taken to refer to peace in " the world.

However, he was murdered by his subordinates Fan Qiang and Zhang Da at Linjiang.

However, in the Chinese newspapers, Zhang was ridiculed as " General Nonresistance " ( Chinese: ).

However, Xiang Yu's uncle Xiang Bo, who was a close friend of Liu Bang's strategist Zhang Liang, managed to persuade Xiang Yu to spare Liu's life.

) However, after the eunuchs ' leader, Zhang Rang pleaded with his daughter-in-law ( Empress Dowager He's sister ), Empress Dowager He relented and summoned them back to the palace.

However, Zhang Liang disapproved of the plan as he felt that the states were more likely to support Western Chu instead as Chu was superior to Han in terms of military might.

However, some believed that Zhang Liang's tomb was in present-day Pei County, Xuzhou.

However, a tactical blunder by Ma Su at the Battle of Jieting resulted in Shu being dealt a huge defeat by Zhang He, a general of the rival state of Wei.

However, the three brothers do not die on the same day: Guan Yu was executed by Sun Quan in 220, Zhang Fei was assassinated by his own men in 221, and Liu Bei died of illness in 223 after his disastrous defeat at the Battle of Xiaoting a year before his death.

However, as she grew increasingly unbridled in her behavior ( including committing adultery with many men and later murdering them to silence them ), Zhang, Pei, and Jia Mo considered deposing her and replacing her with Crown Prince Yu's mother Consort Xie, but they hesitated and never took actual action.

However as Wanli's reign progressed, different factions within the government began to openly oppose Zhang's policy as well as his powerful position in government and courted Wanli to dismiss Zhang.

However, while technically recognizing him as emperor, Zhang Shi ( 張寔 ) the governor of Liang Province ( modern central and western Gansu ), whose domain would eventually evolve into Former Liang, chose not to use his era names and instead continued to use Emperor Min's era name of Jianxing — thus hinting non-recognition.

However, news came that Cao Zhang, leading a hundred-thousand strong army from Chang ' an, was approaching the capital.

However, in terms of decisiveness, he was inferior to Zhang and Su.

However, Sun Quan also thought that Lu Su was incompetent in managing diplomatic ties as compared to Zhang Yi and Su Qin, two famous strategists and diplomats in the Warring States Period.

However, Balhae was severely weakened by the 10th century, and the Khitan Liao Dynasty conquered Balhae in 926.

However, Song forces were repulsed by the Liao forces who engaged in aggressive yearly campaigns into northern Song territory until 1005 when the signing of the Shanyuan Treaty ended these northern border clashes.

However, this seems to take on a different light in considering the somewhat paradoxical situation that after the Song Dynasty, China's ruling dynasties were often of Inner Asia ethnicities, such as Qidan, Ruzhen, and Mongol of the Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties: according to historian John King Fairbank: the " influence on China of the great fact of alien conquest under the Liao-Jin-Yuan dynasties is just beginning to be explored.

However, the Qing also incorporated Chinese units into their army, known as the " green armies ", and large number of Han Chinese and Koreans of Liao Dong ( 遼東 ) were enlisted into the Three Banner Army ( booi ilan gusa ), which were under direct command of the Manchu Emperor.

However, the siege failed when the Liao defending general Yelü Xuegu defended the fortress firmly.

However, what concerned the Song even more was the continued Liao possession of the strategic Sixteen Prefectures, which included present-day Beijing.

However, the Liao won decisive victories on all three fronts, and diplomatic relations were soon resumed.

However, in 1134, an attempt to re-establish the Liao dynasty in China failed.

However, Ambrose feared the consequences and prevailed upon the emperor to have the matter determined by a council of the Western bishops.

However, the Western Allies ' air-to-ground aircraft were so greatly feared out of proportion to their actual tactical success, that following the lead up to Operation Overlord German vehicle crews showed reluctance to move en masse during daylight.

However, his condottieri, most notably Vitellozzo Vitelli and the Orsini brothers, feared Cesare's cruelty and set up a plot against him.

However, he feared reprisal, and his powerful essay was not published until 1978.

However, after the events of M-Day, Bobby feared losing his powers and reverts back to his human appearance.

However, he looked forward with anxiety for his release, which was delayed until March 1642 because the imperial government feared to see Horn at the head of the Swedish army and would not allow an exchange.

" However, Europeans and Asians, because of their minority position, feared the effects of universal suffrage.

However forceful actions by the US against apartheid South Africa were diminished under US President Ronald Reagan, as the Reagan administration feared the rise of communist revolution in South Africa as had happened in Zimbabwe against white minority rule.

However, the plans resulted in an outcry from the German minority population of Opolskie, who feared that should their region be abolished, they would lose all hope of regional representation ( in the proposed Silesian Region, they would have formed a very small minority amongst a great number of ethnic Poles ).

However, several Protestant princes feared the Emperor, a devout Catholic, intended to keep Jülich-Cleves-Berg for himself to prevent the United Duchies falling into Protestant hands.

However, the damaging information on these politicians was eventually made public and political leaders like President Ulysses Grant feared that the revelations might harm their prospects in the upcoming elections.

However, after it was built the feared disease did not occur in the Netherlands anymore so it was never used for its original purpose, it now serves as the entrance of Naturalis, one of the largest natural history museums in the world.

However, the powerful magnates of the country feared a strong central government like the one that existed under Bolesław I's rule.

However, she distrusted the relatively new Technicolor process and feared that she would not photograph well, preferring thereafter to be filmed in black and white.

However, the Dutch Protestants had also removed all Catholics from local government and feared that they would have to pay damages to the Catholics if they were allowed their own churches again.

However, environmental groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council feared that the reorganization could distract the agency from its mission of protecting the nation's oceans and ecosystems.

However, farmers feared that they were being given seeds that would " threaten local varieties " and an estimated 8-12, 000 farmers attended a protest of the donation on June 4, 2010 organized by a Haitian farmers ' association, the Peasant Movement of Papay, where a small pile of seeds was symbolically burned.

However Gollancz feared the second half would offend Left Book Club readers and inserted a mollifying preface to the book while Orwell was in Spain.

However, in April 2007, Wright confirmed that the show no longer had any possibility of returning in any form, as the actors were all now " too old ", and he and Pegg feared it would ruin a good thing.

However, in most areas the African hybrids are initially feared because they tend to retain certain behavioral traits from ancestral Apis mellifera that make them less desirable for domestic beekeeping.

However, in 2006 Australian Synchrotron Research scientists said it was almost certain Phar Lap was poisoned with a large single dose of arsenic in the hours before he died, perhaps supporting the theory that Phar Lap was killed on the orders of U. S. gangsters, who feared the Melbourne-Cup-winning champion would inflict big losses on their illegal bookmakers.

However, senior naval aviators feared that land-based aviators in a " unified " independent air force would no more understand the requirements of sea-based aviation than ground forces commanders understood the capabilities and potential of air power, and

However, by a provision in the Act of Settlement 1701 ( repealed in 1705 and re-enacted in modified form by the Place Act 1707 ), an MP who accepted an office of profit under the Crown was obliged to leave his post, it being feared that his independence would be compromised if he were in the King's pay.

However the feared suppression of their common faith joined both sides together as Irish Catholics after the Irish Rebellion of 1641 ( indeed for many Irish was a second or even first language ).

However, this practice was discontinued during Rama IV's reign as it was feared that the image could get damaged during the procession and also a practical line of thinking that Rama IV held " that diseases are caused by germs, not by evil spirits or the displeasure of the Buddha ".