However nothing on four legs was supposed to be faster than a lion over a short distance, unless it was a cheetah.

However, Sargon took this process further, conquering many of the surrounding regions to create an empire that reached westward as far as the Mediterranean Sea and perhaps Cyprus ( Kaptara ); northward as far as the mountains ( a later Hittite text asserts he fought the Hattite king Nurdaggal of Burushanda, well into Anatolia ); eastward over Elam ; and as far south as Magan ( Oman ) — a region over which he reigned for purportedly 56 years, though only four " year-names " survive.

However, four seasons can be distinguished: the long dry season ( June – August ), the short wet season ( September – November ), the short dry season ( December – January ), and the long wet season ( February – May ).

However, early church documents, such as those of the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) had always listed the Pope of Rome first among the Ancient Patriarchs ( first four, and later five: Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem — collectively referred to as the Pentarchy ).

However, United maintained their aggregate lead to reach the last four and were in jubilant mood as they left to catch their flight home, thinking of an important League game against Wolves at the weekend.

However, it is also possible to divide the book into three parts rather than four by combining the sections treating David and Solomon, since they both ruled over a combined Judah and Israel, unlike the last section that contains the chronicle of the Davidic kings who ruled the Kingdom of Judah alone.

However, the strict acrostic style of four of the five poems is not found at all in the Book of Jeremiah itself and Jeremiah's name is not found anywhere in the book itself ( nor any other name, for that matter ), so authorship of Lamentations is disputed.

However, the limitations of the 1844 Act only affected banks in England and Wales, and today three commercial banks in Scotland and four in Northern Ireland continue to issue their own sterling banknotes, regulated by the Bank of England.

However, the archipelago can be divided into four broad ecological zones ( arid, semiarid, subhumid and humid ), according to altitude and average annual rainfall ranging from 200 mm in the arid areas of the coast to more than 1 000 mm in the humid mountain.

However, 80 % of FDI continues to go to only four sectors: electricity, gas, water and mining.

However, the story is not yet quite finished: " When the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea.

However, Empedocles of Acragas, is best known for having selected all elements as his archai and by the time of Plato, the four Empedoclian elements of were well established.

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, purely negative play is rarely a winning strategy: successful players ( in all versions other than golf croquet ) will use all four balls to set up a break for themselves, rather than simply making the game as difficult as possible for their opponents.

However, they lost to the American League champion Boston Red Sox four games to none.

However, he agreed to send four legates to represent him.

However, the rate of new civil wars had not increased appreciably ; the drastic rise in the number of ongoing wars after World War II was a result of the tripling of the average duration of civil wars to over four years.

However, some states like California have civil procedure systems which deviate significantly from the federal rules ; the California Codes provide for four separate types of class actions.

However, this is a relatively small number especially when playing with more than four people, so many domino sets are " extended " by introducing ends with greater numbers of spots, which increases the number of unique combinations of ends and thus of pieces.

However, continued demand led to a Nova 4 machine, this time based on four AMD 2901 bit-slice ALUs.

However, the Chicago Black Hawks defeated Detroit in the finals, winning the best-of-five series in four games and winning their own first title.

However, these potential bite marks were first noticed in photographs years after the trials and were not inspected by a board-certified medical examiner until four years after the murders.

However, a dispute among its teams and ownership led to the creation of the NASL, which applied for second division status.

However, in January 2004, General Manager Johnny Moore, whose roots with the club dated back to his days as a player for the NASL Earthquakes, resigned after AEG and MLS considered allowing the team to be rebranded as San Jose America ( with ownership to transfer to the owners of Mexico's Club América ).

However, when old NASL names such as the San Jose Earthquakes, Seattle Sounders, Portland Timbers and Vancouver Whitecaps were revived as MLS franchises, he reconsidered.

However the NASL was not sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation and the Silverbacks did not play during 2010.

However, when the Earthquakes returned to the NASL for the 1983 outdoor season, Žungul went with them which created a conflict with Hajduk Split and the Yugoslavian Football Federations .< sup ></ sup > The Earthquakes refused to keep Zungul from playing outdoors and he went on to become a first team NASL All Star in both 1983 and 1984.

However, that same season the Detroit Express NASL franchise relocated to the Washington metropolitan area, renaming themselves the " Diplomats " due to perceived familiarity of the moniker to the area.

However, the NASL was never comfortable with the Croatia link ( an obvious ethnic connection ).

However, a difference in business philosophy with the five surviving NASL franchises saw the Stokers stay dormant in 1969.

However, the team struggled through the year on and off the field, finishing dead last in the NASL and drawing an average of only 7, 160 fans per game, the second worst in the league.

However, MISL refused the NASL / USSF request for player loans, citing the NASL policy forbidding teams in that league from loaning its players to MISL.

However, five American League teams had threatened to block the league assignments because of concerns that they would have additional games out of their time zone, causing early starts that would decrease revenue and TV ratings.

However, some of the more successful American League teams of recent memory, including the 2002 Anaheim Angels, the 2001 Seattle Mariners and the 2005 Chicago White Sox have experienced their success in part as a result of playing " small ball ," advancing runners through means such as the stolen base and the related hit and run play.

However, many major league baseball and NFL teams in the United States also promote 24 ounce cans marked with team logos.

However, following bad sales of Dark Void and Bionic Commando, the company's management has decided to limit outsourcing to sequels and newer versions of installments in existing franchises, reserving the development of original titles for its in-house teams.

However, the first credited Test match was played in 1877 between Australia and England, and the two teams competed regularly for The Ashes in subsequent years.

A common misconception is that Richard Childress Racing " owns the rights " to the No. 3 in NASCAR competition ( fueled by the fact that Kevin Harvick's car has a little No. 3 as an homage to Earnhardt and the usage of the No. 3 on the Camping World Series truck of Ty Dillon ), but in fact no team owns the rights to this or any other number: However, according to established NASCAR procedures, RCR would have priority over other teams if and when the time came to reuse the number.

However, mostly since 2000, due to the always increasing expenditures, several teams, including works teams from car makers and those teams with minimal support from the automotive industry, have become bankrupt or been bought out by companies wanting to establish a team within the sport ; these buyouts are also influenced by Formula One limiting the number of participant teams.

However, at the All-Star break they were 44 – 42, and the NL East was unusually competitive, as all five of its teams had a winning record at the break.

However, when in 1906 two city teams chose the city's Roman amphitheatre as a venue to showcase the game, crowd enthusiasm and media interest began to rise.

However, the NFL considers the Texans and Colts to be separate teams, although many of those teams shared the same colors of blue and white.

However, once a project grows past a few thousand lines, has multiple developers, and external-partner teams, fully integrated IDEs with code analysis and configuration management are all but mandatory.

However, in the divisional round, the Jaguars fell to the then-undefeated New England Patriots ; the teams were tied at halftime, but the Patriots pulled ahead and won 31 – 20.

However, leg spin has again become popular with cricket fans and a successful part of cricket teams, driven largely by the success of Shane Warne, beginning with his spectacular Ball of the Century to Mike Gatting in 1993.

However, the series was tied and draw would mean both teams would have to front up again for another match.

However, it soon became clear that it would be impractical to have an odd number of teams per league: baseball would either have to give teams many more off-days than in the past, or interleague play would have to be extended year-round, or both.

However, the Directors Guild of America would not allow it, citing that only " legitimate teams " could share the director's credit ( e. g. the Wachowski Brothers ).

However owners that are members of recognised re-enactment teams may use their automatic weapons to fire blanks.

However, since the home team has the last at-bat, the rules usually allow visiting teams to score an unlimited number of runs in the top half of an inning.

However, he has coached three other teams since then: the New England Patriots ( whom he helped bring to Super Bowl XXXI ) from 1993-1996, the New York Jets from 1997-1999, and the Dallas Cowboys from 2003-2006.

However, Chris Mohr matched Jett's feat with a 45-yard punt that was downed at the Dallas 1-yard line by Buffalo special teams expert Steve Tasker.