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

However, with the exception of a few of the southern city-states, the majority of the Roman allies remained loyal and continued to fight alongside Rome, despite Hannibal's near-invincible army devastating the Italian countryside.

However, rule utilitarianism proposes a more central role for rules that was thought to rescue the theory from some of its more devastating criticisms, particularly problems to do with justice and promise keeping.

However devastating the defeat, the battle did not entirely break the Gothic tribes ' military strength.

However, frequent devastating floods and course changes produced by the continual elevation of the river bed, sometimes above the level of its surrounding fields has also earned it the unenviable names " China's Sorrow " and " Scourge of the Sons of Han.

However, the Lightning suffered a devastating rash of injuries.

However, his plans have devastating consequences for the innocent as well as the guilty.

However, the cult of Hygieia as an independent goddess did not begin to spread out until the Delphic oracle recognized her, and after the devastating Plague of Athens ( 430-427 BC ) and in Rome in 293 BC.

However, it was in the limited overs cricket that Garner put his height to use with devastating effect.

However, for Migne, on the night of 12-13 February 1868 a devastating fire, which began in the printing plant, destroyed Migne's establishment, which was also producing religious objects.

However, since the Flood was so devastating to the city and to its major employer, the Cambria Iron Company, the iron company decided to develop the top of the hill as a suburb for its top personnel to live in.

" However, the piers burned in the 1960s in a devastating fire and the town continued to decline.

However, when matched against modern weaponry such as automatic firearms, artillery and aircraft, a human wave attack is an extremely dangerous and costly tactic in the face of devastating firepower.

However these adverse effects must be balanced against the significant risk epileptiform seizures pose to children and the distinct possibility of death and devastating neurological sequela secondary to seizures.

However, the mutual heavy losses were devastating only for the Serbs, who had brought to Kosovo almost all of their fighting strength.

However, in the early 1970s, the vandalism escalated to more devastating acts, such as arson.

However, a shrewd German player can " game " the USAT table and keep the USA neutral by not declaring war on too many minor countries, taking only limited offensives or even hoarding her U-boats for a sudden, devastating assault on Britain's economy ( the latter loophole came to light after publication, and the rules were later amended to require Germany to make at least limited use of any U-boats she builds ).

However, the approach has been widely criticized as ignoring several key factors involved in fisheries management and has led to the devastating collapse of many fisheries.

However, the monastery's precious old scriptures, statues, murals and wood carvings were destroyed in the devastating fire caused by an electrical short circuit on January 19, 1989.

However, the party suffered a devastating loss in the 2011 general election and lost 23 seats in the National Assembly.

However, in the context of a later war there is a depiction of Latin American aircraft carriers launching a devastating surprise attack on New York City, which bears some similarities to the methods which the Japanese would use at Pearl Harbor three years after the book was written.

However, the devastating 1997 Red River Flood inundated numerous buildings on campus and forced the cancellation of the remainder of the school year.

However, Goldwater's vote on the Civil Rights Act proved devastating to his campaign everywhere outside the South ( other than the South, Goldwater only won in Arizona, his home state ), contributing to his landslide defeat in 1964.

However, Garibaldi's alcoholism has devastating consequences when he passes out drunk and thus fails to hear a warning from his intelligence officers.

However, the resurgence of expeditionary warfare in the past twenty years has seen the emergence of gun-armed wheeled vehicles, sometimes called protected gun systems, which may bear a superficial resemblance to tank destroyers, but are employed as direct fire support units typically providing support in low intensity operations such as Iraq and Afghanistan.

However, the resurgence of expeditionary warfare in the past twenty years has seen the emergence of gun-armed wheeled vehicles, sometimes called protected gun systems, which may bear a superficial resemblance to tank destroyers, but are employed as direct fire support units typically providing support in low-intensity operations such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

However, crews tended to fire their weapons from their vehicles for the mobility this method provided, with consequent casualties.

However, sometimes in the first half of the 20th century hardcopy artillery fire plans and map traces were distributed.

However, air observers have been use since the beginning of indirect fire and were quickly joined by air photography.

However, the need to engage targets at night, in depth or hit the target with the first rounds quickly led to predicted fire being developed in World War I.

However, in the 1930s the French moved it to battalion level and combined it with some tactical fire control.

However, Wilkes ’ Hessian brigade, lying nearby in the marshy grass at the water's edge, stood firm and repulsed the Gens d ' Armes with steady fire, enabling the English and Hessians to re-order and launch another attack.

However, this is not the first time that the USAF has come under fire in the past for offering this award.

However, in 1168 the Fatimids under the leadership of Vizier Shawar set fire to Fustat to prevent Cairo's capture by the Crusaders.

However, Empedocles of Acragas ( c. 495-c. 435 BCE ) selected four archai for his four roots: Air, fire, water, and earth.

However, Empedocles of Acragas ( c. 495-c. 435 BC ) selected four archai for his four roots: air, fire, water and earth.

However, the team was wracked with dissension, with some players ( including Feller and Mel Harder ) going so far as to request that Bradley fire manager Ossie Vitt.

However, according to recent studies, California chaparral is extraordinarily resilient to very long periods without fire and continues to maintain productive growth throughout pre-fire conditions.

However the majority of civilian casualties were killed by indirect fire from artillery, heavy machine guns and incendiary shells.

However, lacking his sword, Freyr will be killed by the fire jötunn Surtr during the events of Ragnarök.

However, Farmer Giles's blunderbuss had a wide mouth that opened like a horn, and it did not fire balls or slugs, but anything that he could spare to stuff in.

However the shots in the film where this prop was employed ( far away shots of Godzilla breathing his fire during his attack on the Arctic Military base ) were ultimately cut from the film.

However, laboratory tests on fire ants have shown that grits are an ineffective pesticide.

However, although the use of hastily improvised fireships is mentioned during the 1203 siege of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade, no report confirms the use of the actual Greek fire.

However, extensive experiments with it also failed to reproduce the described intensity of Greek fire.

However, wires which touch each other will produce cross connections, short circuits, and fire hazards.

However, on February 22, 2003, one of the production facilities caught fire and was badly damaged.

However, an accidental fire breaks out in Luthor's lab.

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.