However the counties are still very widely acknowledged, for example as administrative divisions for sporting and cultural organisations.

However, some evidence suggests that pankration, in both its sporting form and its combative form, may have been practiced in Greece already from the second millennium BC.

However, in terms of endurance and risk to life, ocean races such as the Volvo Ocean Race, the solo VELUX 5 Oceans Race, and the non-stop solo Vendée Globe, rate as some of the most extreme and dangerous sporting events.

However, in the north as well as in the south, the traditional 32 counties and 4 provinces remain in common usage for many sporting, cultural and other purposes.

However, many board sports are ever-more frequently gaining mainstream recognition, and with this recognition have enjoyed wider broadcast, sponsorship and inclusion in institutional sporting events, including the Olympic Games.

However, many young, non-white people do display the flag, particularly for sporting events.

However, the change did not soothe political and sporting pressures.

However, due to youth clothing ideology, striped cardigans sporting vivid colors are also seen on skateboarders.

However, for the smaller dragon boats of 20 paddlers which are most often used in competitive sporting events, the drum is located just aft of the dragon headed prow.

However, even before 1994 the Transvaal Province was subdivided into regions for a number of purposes ( such as municipal and district courts, and sporting divisions ), these divisions included Northern Transvaal ( Currently Limpopo ), Eastern Transvaal ( Currently Mpumalanga ), Western Transvaal ( Currently North West province ) and Southern Transvaal ( Now Gauteng province )

However, transistor radios are still popular for news, talk radio, weather, live sporting events and emergency alert applications.

However, access to the island has been restricted to research, teaching and the occasional sporting event.

However, competition was not entirely limited to non-hatchbacks, the various sports versions of the Mini, Alfa Romeo Alfasud and race-inspired enthusiasts ' vehicles such as the Vauxhall Chevette HS providing sporting performance in a non-coupe body.

" However, the bill also included language that stated " a firearm shall not be determined to be particularly suitable for sporting purposes solely because the firearm is suitable for use in a sporting event "-possibly an attempt to rebut those that would argue that several of the firearms proposed to be banned are used in the national rifle matches held at Camp Perry each year.

However, it was not competitive as a hunting weapon, when compared to the bolt action Mauser and Mannlicher-Schoenauer hunting rifles that became widely available for sporting purposes, beginning in the early 1900s.

However, the latter part of his sporting career was dogged by knee trouble: the knee had been damaged in a collision with the Charlton goalkeeper ; he was limited to 60 official ( i. e. non-wartime ) appearances and 16 goals.

However, the majority of wordwide sporting participants are amateurs.

However, in recent years ESPN2 has broadcast increasingly more mainstream sporting events, including Major League Baseball games, the East-West Shrine Game, much of the 2006 World Baseball Classic, many Major League Soccer and NCAA basketball games, the WNBA, the Arena Football League, and NASCAR Nationwide Series races on Saturday afternoons.

However, access to the island has been restricted to research, teaching and the occasional sporting event.

However, the boys school, which admitted both day pupils and boarders until 1970, achieved the status of a public school, 1931 – 46, and went on to become a notable centre of sporting and musical activity in south Essex.

However, his main sporting reputation came from cricket.

However, they had been bred for non-sporting reasons since at least 1800, and so their use changed from a sporting breed to a companion breed.

However, it took a match-winning seventh-wicket partnership of 121 by Jeremy Coney ( 47 not out ) and ' Man of the Match ' Richard Hadlee ( 79 ), to bring New Zealand home for an ' impossible ' victory, watched by nearly 1. 5 million Kiwis on television, almost half the population and a record for a sporting telecast at the time.

However, the Swiss Militia continues to consist of most of the adult male population ( with voluntary participation by women ) required to keep an assault rifle at home and to periodically engage in combat and marksmanship training.

" However, Wells also states in his rules that combat " should be by actual gun and rifle fire and not by computation.

However, the Austrian Army, though issuing the Steyr AUG rifle, does not issue the HBAR ( heavy barrel ) variant.

" However, as the series progresses, Tom's inventions " show an increasingly independent genius as he develops devices, such as an electric rifle and a photo telephone, further removed from the scientific norm ".

However, the long-barreled 98 Mauser rifle remained in service as the primary infantry small arm.

However, the Dreyse Needle fire rifle was the first breech-loader to use a rotating bolt design.

However, the head of the commission, General Chagin, insisted on subsequent trials held under the Commission's supervision during which Mosin's rifle showed its advantages, leading to its selection over the Nagant.

However for the same reason and because of Nagant's attempts to use the situation for publicity, the " Mosin-Nagant " name appeared in the western literature ( the rifle was never called this in Russia ).

However, a Canadian infantry battalion consists of three or four rifle companies identified by letter ( A Company, B Company, etc.

However, if Jedediah felt Indians were being hostile to his party, he would make a demonstration by having one or two Natives killed with a rifle.

However, in the Italian War of 1859, French forces were able to defeat the longer range of Austrian rifle muskets by aggressive skirmishing and rapid bayonet assaults at close quarters combat.

However the recoilless rifle found other roles, most notably in the India-Pakistan confrontation in Kashmir, where it was used against bunkers and as artillery in otherwise inhospitable terrain.

However, the term " automatic rifle " may mean a rifle capable of fully automatic fire.

However, the M1903 Springfield remained in service as a standard issue infantry rifle during World War II, since the U. S. entered the war without sufficient M1 rifles to arm all troops.

However, the leaf spring providing tension to the elevation adjustment on the new aperture sight tended to weaken with continued use over time, causing the rifle to lose its preset range elevation setting.

However, they were unable to press further, as they now became exposed to machine gun and rifle fire from the entrenched infantry of the 52nd ( Lowland ) Division, and shelling from the horse artillery supporting the light horsemen's determined defence.

However, this process requires partial disassembly, so it can not be quickly reconfigured while the rifle is in use.

However, the recoilless rifle merely fires a large-sized bullet-like projectile, and not a projectile that continues to propel itself after leaving the barrel of the weapon.

However the Lebel rifle was still preferred by French line infantrymen over the Berthier rifles.

However, modern collectors and shooters have pointed out that no Jungle Carbine collector / shooter on any of the prominent internet military firearm collecting forums has reported a confirmed " wandering zero " on their No. 5 Mk I rifle, leading to speculation that the No. 5 Mk I may have been phased out largely because the British military did not want a bolt-action rifle when most of the other major militaries were switching over to semi-automatic longarms such as the M1 Garand and SKS.

However, the Italian government was unable to successfully mass produce the new arms in adequate quantities before the onset of war, and in 1940, all rifle and ammunition production reverted to 6. 5 mm, but no 7. 35 mm Mod.