However, after a 14-year stretch of consecutive losing seasons, the Orioles posted a winning record in 2012 and qualified for the postseason for the first time since 1997.

However, in January 2008, Selig agreed to a three-year contract extension, announcing he planned to retire after the 2012 season.

However, given the rapid progress in the industry they are working on a more in depth study to be concluded in May 2012.

However, in an in-person interview held at the Apple Store Soho on August 16, 2012, Cronenberg commented that the financing for the " Eastern Promises " sequel had fallen through about two weeks earlier.

However, in early 2010, the College announced that it would re-introduce loans to its financial aid packages beginning in the 2011 – 2012 school year due to its changed financial situation.

However by Ministerial Resolution No 139-2012 / DE / EP of February 2, 2012 the restoration of the Cavalry Regiment " Marshal Domingo Nieto " as the official escort of the President of the Republic of Peru was announced.

However, the Egyptian presidential election, 2012 occurred without a new constitution.

However, Jorge Cauz ( president of Encyclopædia Britannica Inc .) asserted in 2012 that " Britannica [...] will always be factually correct.

However, Free Mobile obtained its licence in December 2009 and operates since January 2012.

However, in May 2012 Judge James Taylor ruled that while Price had lived in Coleman's home after their marriage ended, their relationship at the time of his death failed to meet Utah ’ s standard for a common-law marriage.

However the United Arab Emirates switched to using litres on 1 January 2012.

However, even with a veteran quarterback, the Colts went on to an 0 – 13 record and finished the season with a 2 – 14 record, enough to receive the first overall pick in the 2012 draft.

However, in the wake of the economic crisis of 2008, Greek government debt crisis, 2008 – 2012 Spanish financial crisis and European sovereign debt crisis, thinkers such as Terry Eagleton, David Harvey, and David McNally have given renewed impetus to the debate on whether Marx was right that capitalism inherently tends towards crisis ( which Marx discussed as the " contradictions of capital ").

However, due to the 2012 insurgency in northern Mali, the military government controls only the southern third of the country, leaving the north of the country ( known as Azawad ) to MNLA rebels.

However, in 2012 Cardiff Blues announced that they would be making a permanent return to Cardiff Arms Park following declining attendances at the Cardiff City Stadium.

However, the list of recognized churches was lengthened to 32 at the end of February 2012.

However, a report from the French AFP news agency stated that " The Turkish judicial authorities still haven't explained exactly which legal resources he had access to ", and former minister of Justice Hikmet Sami Türk, in government at the time of Ağca's extradition, claimed that, from a legal viewpoint, his liberation was a " serious mistake " at best, and that he should have not been freed before 2012.

However on July 26, 2012 Jonathan Vilma and seven witnesses from the Saints testified in front of a federal judge in New Orleans that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell got his facts wrong in the bounty scandal.

However, on June 1, 2012, Johan Santana pitched a no-hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals in an 8-0 victory.

However, by 2012 the influence of these small British shareholders over the overwhelmingly non-British owners ( mainly the publicly owned French company EDF ) of the firms that generate and distribute power in Britain is negligible.

However, a new split-away denomination has been established as of January, 2012.

However at Comic-Con International 2012, Raimi stated that he was no longer involved in the project, saying “ Actually, they don ’ t have me directing World of Warcraft anymore because when I took the Oz job, they had to move on to another director.

However, Islamists in northern Mali, citing shariah law, stoned an unmarried couple who allegedly had children together to death in 2012.

However, this prompted the The Department for Transport to undertake a desk study in to semi-trailer trucks, which has resulted in the longer semi-trailer trial which commenced in 2012.

However, in July 2012, Tajik Aluminium Company ( TALCO ) and Azerbaijani company Azeraluminium signed a cooperation agreement during the official visit of President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon to the Republic of Azerbaijan for the construction of oil refinery in the south of Tajikistan.

However, the film's ambitious scope and its extensive effects work forced Campbell, Raimi and producer Rob Tapert to put up $ 1 million of their collective salaries to shoot a new ending and not film a scene where a possessed woman pushes down some giant pillars.

However, this type of massive star eventually evolves into a cooler red giant which rotates more slowly and thus can be measured using the radial velocity method.

However, the giant stars are much brighter than dwarfs and so, do not follow the same relationship.

However, for hotter blue and white stars, the size and brightness difference between so-called dwarf stars that are on the main sequence and the so-called giant stars that are not becomes smaller ; for the hottest stars it is not directly observable.

However, one must note both Katsufumi and the authors of Posture, Locomotion, and Paleoecology of Pterosaurs based their research on the now outdated theories of pterosaurs being seabird-like, and the size limit doesn't apply to terrestrial pterosaurs like azhdarchids and tapejarids Furthermore, Darren Naish concluded that atmospheric differences between the present and the Mesozoic weren't needed for the giant size of pterosaurs.

However, it is possible that a large Jupiter-sized gas giant could deflect comets and asteroids.

However, as of 2009, the top ten largest giant sequoias ( all located within California ) by volume are:

However, giants show different variants and forms, they are most frequently referred to as jentilak and mairuak, while as individuals they can be represented as Basajaun (' the lord of the forests '), Sanson ( development of the biblical Samson ), Errolan ( based on the Frankish army general Roland fall dead in the Battle of Roncevaux Pass ) or even Tartalo ( a one-eyed giant akin to the Greek Cyclops ).

However as the times darken, they decide to take action against a mysterious dark force which seems to dwell in the middle of a giant forest called Mirkwood.

However, due to the impossibility of moving or erecting the giant parts of that monuments, they have been left unfinished in Yangshan Quarry, where they remain to this day.

However, being a god, he is quickly able to break free and creates more havoc, razing the palace of Pentheus to the ground in a giant earthquake and fire.

However on August 14, 1919, the giant hotel burned to the ground.

However, its extinct relative, the giant short-faced kangaroo Procoptodon goliah reached, while extinct diprotodonts attained the largest size of any marsupial in history, up to an estimated.

However, the species generally regarded as the largest living bivalve is the giant clam Tridacna gigas, which can grow to a length of and a weight of more than 200 kilograms ( 441 lbs ).

However, a kama isn't a scythe as most Westerners think of it, a giant, curved blade connected at right angles to a two-meter-long wooden handle, but rather a much smaller version, with a less dramatically curved blade and a straight wooden handle approximately two feet long.

However, some members of the Sparassidae are called giant crab spiders, Selenopidae are called wall crab spiders, and various members of the Sicariidae are sometimes called six-eyed crab spiders.

However, Sinbad's men have time to organize the giant crossbow ballista.

However, Tharp's attempts to conserve the giant sequoias were at first met with only limited success.

However, the infuriated parent rocs soon catch up with the vessel and destroy it by dropping giant boulders they have carried in their talons.

However, while recruiting a scientist for Beast's " Science Squad ", the X-Club, Angel is forced to transform into Archangel in order to destroy a giant rampaging monster.

However, even this cataclysm does not drive the locals to open up to their alien visitors, so the crewmen deploy a device working as a giant lens or laser, capable of displaying images ( but also concentrating beams to the point of being a powerful weapon ) and following a suggestion by Tempe, show the Quintans a " fairy tale " by projecting a cartoon onto Quinta's clouds.

However, a mummified giant specimen from Tenerife yielded ancient DNA remains, and by analysis of this, it was concluded that G. goliath is a valid species that probably was restricted to Tenerife, and apparently was closer to G. intermedia than to G. simonyi ( Maca-Meyer et al.

However, they were defeated by Bob's " Giant Denim Pocket Attack " ( encasing them in a giant blue denim pocket ) causing the robot to scratch.

However when Rumiya had Misao forcibly transform into Pixy Misa for the final time, Shigeki found out that the area that Pixy Misa's giant rose which was causing people to go berserk is where his wife and daughter are.

However, when she goes out of the house he resumes his thumb sucking, until a roving tailor appears and cuts off his thumbs with giant scissors.