" However, Costas ' comments were made subsequent to the suspension of Chinese coach Zhou Ming after seven of his swimmers were caught using steroids in 1994.

However, none elevated himself to believe that he had the " Mandate of Heaven ," as the Zhou emperors had claimed, nor that he had the right to offer sacrifices — they left this to the Zhou rulers.

However, this decentralized system became strained as the familial relationship between Zhou Kings and regional rulers thinned over generations and peripheral territories developed local power and prestige on par with that of the Zhou.

However the word does not appear in the oracle bones, and seems to have been the Zhou name for the earlier dynasty.

However, Zhou Wu sent three of his brothers and an army to ensure that Wu Geng would not rebel.

However, it now seems unlikely that Zhou met him or heard any of his lectures.

However, Liu Chong, a member of the Later Han imperial family, established a rival Northern Han regime in Taiyuan, and requested Khitan aid to defeat the Later Zhou.

However, it was unable to defeat incursions by the Later Zhou Dynasty between 956 and 958, and ceded all of its land north of the Yangtze River.

However, they met Zhou Enlai, who spoke of how President Kennedy had wanted to restore ties with China and said " We're willing to wait.

However, Hua Guofeng was chosen to succeed Premier Zhou in January 1976.

However, with the Zhou domain greatly reduced to Chengzhou and nearby areas, the court could no longer support the six army groups it had in the past ; Zhou kings had to request help from powerful vassal states for protection from raids and for resolution of internal power struggles.

However, Mao himself and Zhou Enlai ordered her not to be touched along with several other communist and non-communist cadres.

However, in order to appease some of the citizens, they allowed some of the Shang beneficiaries to continue governing the small Kingdoms in which they had been governing but in compliance with the Zhou rules and regulations.

However, due to the support of Zhou Enlai, he was not harmed or imprisoned.

However, after the third counter encirclement campaign, Mao was removed from the leadership and replaced by the Chinese communists returning from the Soviet Union such as Wang Ming, and the command of the Chinese Red Army was handled by a three man committee that included Wang Ming's associates Otto Braun ( Li De ), the Comintern military advisor, Bo Gu, and Zhou Enlai.

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, their way of retreat was blocked by logs previously set up by Zhou Yu, so they all had to dismount and run to safety.

However, he was also criticized for general ungratefulness, including harsh treatments of Zhou Yafu, the general whose abilities allowed his victory in the Rebellion of the Seven States, and his wife Empress Bo.

However, after hearing that Liu Pi had been defeated, Zhou was so taken by anxiety that he died.

However, the two came from a wealthier background, and did not want to submit to Zhou Tai's command citing the latter's common background.

However, very few of those were inscribed ; these very early inscribed Zhou oracle bones are also known as the Zhōuyuán oracle bones.

However, they met strong resistance within the CCP from members such as Zhang Guotao and Zhou Enlai.

However, they escaped large scale destruction partly because of the protection of Premier Zhou Enlai.

However, at eighty-five, he had still been busy writing articles, reviewing and speaking, and I had never before known an Englishman who had visited and lectured in three quarters of the United States.

However, by comparing the TV snatches, two different radio station re-runs, and the censored Los Angeles Times version, I found that the radio stations had edited out questions ( ABC removed the one regarding Laos ) or even a paragraph out of the middle of the President's answer.

However, such a hotbed of gossip had grown up during the trial, that every precaution had to be taken to keep my visit from being whispered to the world, Society, and even, alas, to my own mother.

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 much football has been over-emphasized, the public likes to measure its collegiate favorites by the scoreboard, so, while Yale need never give its record a thought again since outscoring its opponents 694 to 0 in the season of 1888, Dartmouth had to wait until its championship team of 1925 for national recognition.

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

However, he had a strong interest in the fledgling motion picture industry and when Essanay Studios offered him the opportunity to become a scriptwriter, he took the job.

However, this story may reflect a cultural influence which had the reverse direction: Hittite cuneiform texts mention a Minor Asian god called Appaliunas or Apalunas in connection with the city of Wilusa attested in Hittite inscriptions, which is now generally regarded as being identical with the Greek Ilion by most scholars.

However, during the tour of Australia in 2006 / 7, the MCC official accompanying the urn said the veil legend had been discounted, and it was now " 95 % certain " that the urn contains the ashes of a cricket bail.

However, his term was marked by economic depression that had grown out of the Panic of 1873, which Mackenzie's government was unable to alleviate.

However, much of southeastern Europe and central Europe, including many of the Goths and Vandals respectively, had embraced Arianism ( the Visigoths converted to Arian Christianity in 376 ), which led to Arianism being a religious factor in various wars in the Roman Empire.

However, to make a working computer, users still had to add a case, power supply transformers, power switch, ASCII keyboard, and composite video display.

However, according to Josephus, in Antiquities, Book 7, Chapter 1, Joab had forgiven Abner for the death of his brother, Asahel, the reason being that Abner had slain Asahel honorably in combat after he had first warned Asahel and had no other choice but to kill him out of self defense.

However, the temple of Ares to which he refers had only been moved from Acharnes and re-sited in the Agora in Augustus's time, and statues known to derive from Alcamenes ' statue show the god in a breastplate, so the identification of Alcamenes ' Ares with the Ares Borghese is not secure.

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, Leofgar lost the battle and his life, and Edward had to sue for peace.

However, Peter had wished his son and heir to dedicate himself to the service of new Russia, and demanded from him unceasing labour in order to maintain Russia's new wealth and power.

However, his succession could not have been foreseen at the time, as Alfred had three living elder brothers.

However, near the French border, General Mola had him arrested and expelled from the country.