However, the Cubs have not won a World Series since 1908 ; this remains the longest championship drought in North American professional sports.

However, bitheistic and ditheistic principles are not always so easily contrastable, for instance in a system where one god is the representative of summer and drought and the other of winter and rain / fertility ( cf.

However, under some conditions, e. g. less fertile soils or less predictable drought regimes, the proportion of evergreen species increases and the forests are characterised as " sclerophyllous ".

However, his efforts were frustrated by political turmoil and a devastating drought between 1968 to 1974, in which famine killed thousands of people.

However, poor climatic conditions and severe drought badly affected the agricultural sector, thus reducing its share in the economy to about 17 % of 2008 GDP, down from 20. 4 % in 2007, according to preliminary data from the Central Bureau of Statistics.

However, the English regained control of the island from the French in 1667 under the Treaty of Breda, and despite hardships caused by poor crop yields, drought and famine, the settlers hung on.

However, for people in a drought living a long way from and with limited access to markets, delivering food may be the most appropriate way to help.

However, it may be more important to be preemptive by maintaining wide water level fluctuations ( including periods of drought ) along with infertile conditions to prevent invasion in the first place.

However, low water levels in drought years have stressed the lake's ecology.

However, premiership success did not follow, and the club contested only three Grand Finals for just one premiership during this period, and endured the longest premiership drought ( 23 years ) in the club's history.

However, the good moisture years that had attracted these settlers were succeeded by a severe drought in 1893 and 1894, which drove many of the new settlers away again ; the number of farms in the county declined by more than half, from 565 in 1890 to 226 in 1900.

However, the community has been affected by the late 2000s recession as well as the decline of the cotton industry, drought and restrictions on pumping from the Sacramento River delta to protect endangered species.

However, most of these settlers were unfamiliar with farming in a desert climate, so when the drought years occurred, most abandoned their settlement.

However, because of rapid growth of the Atlanta area, drought, and mishandling of a stream gauge, Lake Lanier has seen record-low water levels.

However, the area proved unsuitable for farming because of drought and large ranches soon replaced the small farms.

However quick action allowed the work to be completed, when a drought fortuitously occurred, closing the canal.

However, Puka can also grow on cliffs with shallow, stony soils which suggests some tolerance of drought.

However, excess drainage results in recurring drought induced crop yield losses and more severe urban heat or desiccation issues.

However, population bottlenecks occurred, such as the severe 1993 El Niño drought and food shortage, which reduced the number of ducks to about 100.

However, the species is intolerant of flooding, as it is of prolonged drought.

However, for people in a drought living a long way from and with limited access to markets, delivering sacks of grain and tins of oil may be the most appropriate way to help.

However, portions of the river can become severely dewatered, shallow, and warm in drought years, adversely impacting fish populations.

However, the area was in drought at the time and the lake did not actually fill until April 1964, when the drought broke.

However, Amos came to tell the people that " the Day of the LORD " was coming soon and that it meant divine judgment and justice for their own iniquity.

However, after the cancellations of Apollo 18 and Apollo 19 were finalized in September 1970 it meant that this crew would not rotate to a lunar mission as planned.

However, poor marketing and failure to repeat the technological advances of the first systems meant that the Amiga quickly lost its market share to competing platforms, such as the fourth generation game consoles, Apple Macintosh and IBM PC compatibles.

However, Rindt's late decision to remain with Lotus meant that Brabham drove for another year.

" However, despite popular belief, the name was not meant to insult the Kennedy family, but according to Biafra, " to bring attention to the end of the American Dream ".

However a Danish priest on top of a hill overlooking the battle prayed to God, which meant that the Danes moved closer to victory the more he prayed.

However, cost reasons meant this was not selected.

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

However, this also meant that Albanian industrial development, which was stressed heavily by Hoxha, would have to be significantly reduced.

However, in 1971 Erik Hornung pointed out that the traits of an apparently supreme being could be attributed to many different gods, even in periods when other gods were preeminent, and further argued that references to an unspecified " god " are meant to refer flexibly to any deity.

However, the inability to maintain slave numbers without constant resupply from Africa meant the slave population, by 1789, totaled 500 000, ruled over by a white population that, by 1789, numbered only 32 000.

However, for Hanoverian industry, the new connection with Prussia meant an improvement in business.

However by 1783 the more economical Watt steam engine had been fully developed into a double-acting rotative type, which meant that it could be used to directly drive the rotary machinery of a factory or mill.

However cost and initial rarity of software using the memory above 1 MB meant that 80286 computers were rarely shipped with more than one megabyte of RAM.

However, the decreasing importance of the soda ash trade to ICI in favour of newer products such as paints and plastics, meant that in 1984 the Wallerscote site was closed, and thereafter mostly demolished.

However parliamentary delays meant it was 4 March 1756 before a special act of parliament created four battalions of 1, 000 men each to include foreigners for service in the Americas.

However, the crowd turns on the Army, and Superman orders the crowd to stop, telling them that they, not the Army, not Lex Luthor, nor himself, are meant to be Metropolis's saviors.

However, their very poor rate of fire ( which often meant that only one shot was fired in the course of an entire battle ) and their inaccuracy made them more of a psychological force multiplier than an effective anti-personnel weapon.

However, the documentary evidence indicates that the allowance was meant to relieve Oxford's embarrassed financial situation caused by the ruination of his estate.

However the use of modern engineering materials coupled with alternative engine configurations has meant that these types of system are now a cost effective opportunity.

However, it is also possible that the calls are meant to cause confusion and panic in the groups and cause the others to be more conspicuous to the predator than the caller.

However, despite a Woolworths store on its ground floor, a major travel company housed on the floor above, and a restaurant offering fine views over the city on the top floor, the economic situation of the time meant that it would not be followed by more buildings in that vein: no further redevelopment in the immediate vicinity of Potsdamer Platz occurred prior to World War II, and so Columbushaus would always seem out of place in that location.

However, the internal architecture of the 500 series meant that the speed increase provided by the 100 and 117 MHz upgrades was, for most users, relatively small.

However, shortly before Scott was due to start work, a schedule conflict meant he was replaced on the serial by Raymond Cusick.

However, this small period of independence meant that it was fashioned as its own kingdom and the subsequent kings named their titles as king of Galicia and León, instead of merely king of León, even though Galicia was never to be independent again.