" However, Costas ' comments were made subsequent to the suspension of Chinese coach Zhou Ming after seven of his swimmers were caught using steroids in 1994.

However, breathy-voiced and aspirated stops are acoustically similar in that in both cases there is an audible period of breathiness following the stop, and in the history of various languages ( e. g. Ancient Greek, Mandarin Chinese ), breathy-voiced stops have subsequently developed into voiceless aspirated stops.

However, recent reexaminations of Chinese gender roles suggest that many women flourished within Confucianism.

However, they do not serve specialized Hui dishes, only Halal versions of ordinary Chinese food.

However, some sources point out that this is a modern saying used by the Chinese from other regions in reference to Cantonese culinary habits.

However, these causal properties can't be detected by anyone outside the mind, otherwise the Chinese Room couldn't pass the Turing test — the people outside would be able to tell there wasn't a Chinese speaker in the room by detecting their causal properties.

However, most of the brightest stars of Centaurus, including α Cen, θ Cen, ε Cen and η Cen, can be seen in the Chinese sky.

However, his ancestral home, a concept important in Chinese society, was the town of Heqiao ( 和橋鎮 ) in Yixing, Wuxi, Jiangsu ( approximately southwest of downtown Wuxi, and from the shores of Lake Tai ).

However, it was readily accepted by members of the Chinese Nationalist Party and is the name under which Chiang Kai-shek is still commonly known in Taiwan.

However, when the price of silver rose, the East India Company began to manufacture a product that was desired by the Chinese as much as tea was by the British: opium.

Moreover, according to this thesis, a major motivational factor for Gorbachev was his realization that the Soviet Union could not compete economically with the USA However, if economic premises are taken into account, it is not clear why the Soviet leaders did not adopt the Chinese option — economic liberalization with preservation of political system.

However, is not a phoneme in Mandarin, which has no voiced plosives, therefore the initial voicing of is not significant to the Chinese listener.

However in practice, most English speakers think the Chinese pronunciation sounds more like an English initial than an English initial because the Chinese pronunciation is unaspirated.

However, Hanyu Pinyin has been gaining ground as the international standard for Chinese romanization.

However, many of these traditionalists will accept using pinyin for more recent Chinese borrowings.

However, a mulatto who escaped the destruction of Syn's previous ship stowed away in Clegg's ship and accused him before the crew ; Clegg quelled the potential mutiny by having the mulatto's tongue cut out, marooning him on a coral reef and violently killing Yellow Pete, the ship's Chinese cook, who represented the crew in their wish to rescue the mulatto.

However, Vietnamese rulers never accepted the vassalage relationship with China and always refused to come to Chinese courts to pay homage to Chinese rulers ( a sign of vassalage acceptance ).

However, his restaurant " Chinois on Main " was named after the term attributed to Richard Wing, who in the 1960s combined French and Chinese cooking at the former Imperial Dynasty restaurant in Hanford, California.

However in Ming China, for example, there is considerable evidence for rapidly changing fashions in Chinese clothing.

However, Hong Kong registered vehicles may apply for secondary mainland Chinese registration plates, and these can be driven across the border to mainland China ; likewise, left-hand drive cars seen in Hong Kong are usually primarily registered in mainland China and carry supplementary Hong Kong registration plates.

However, there is a historical gap of 300 years between the Chinese and later sources.

" However, like many of the Hundred Schools of Thought during the Warring States period ( 403-221 BC ), the doctrine of the Mohist sect had little impact on later Chinese thought.

However, this translation may not accurately represent the role of the bunyip in Aboriginal mythology or its possible origins before written accounts were made.

However, over time, many artists have begun to focus more on topics like the seasons ( particularly winter ), nature, mythology, folklore, philosophy and fantasy.

" However, as de Vries points out, the only basis for associating Forseti with justice seems to have been his name ; there is no corroborating evidence in Norse mythology.

However, the form itself is reputed to have been one of the gifts bestowed on man by the gods of Hindu mythology.

However, modern-day scholars tend to be more suspicious of comparative approaches, avoiding overly general or universal statements about mythology.

However sidh in older texts refers specifically to " the palaces, courts, halls or residences " of the ghostly beings that, according to Gaedhelic mythology, inhabit them.

* However, the more widely known Atlas is a figure from Greek mythology.

However in Nel's opinion Rowling's humour is more based on caricature and the names she invents are more like those found in Charles Dickens's stories, and Amanda Cockrell noted that many of these express their owners ' traits through allusions that run from ancient Roman mythology to eighteenth century German literature.

However, there are a number of bands, such as Enslaved and Einherjer, who are simply interested in Vikings and Norse mythology, and who entirely reject Satanism and write almost exclusively on Norse themes.

They are sometimes equated with the Sirens of Greek mythology, femme fatales whose enchanting voices drew sailors onto the rocks of their island, shipwrecking them. However the Greek Sirens were half women-half bird, not half fish.

However it was suggested that the reverence for the colors red and white can trace its origin to older common Austronesian mythology of Mother Earth and Father Sky ; both symbolize in colors red ( earth ) and white ( sky ).

However, the last king of Babylon, the Assyrian born Nabonidus, paid little attention to politics, preferring to obsess with worship of the moon god Sin ( mythology ), leaving day to day rule to his son Belshazzar.

However the existence of Ogmios can still be seen in Irish mythology.

However, Mag Mell was similar to the fields of Elysium in Greek mythology, and like the fields of Elysium, was accessible only to a select few.

However, her mythology may once have focused on the sweatbath, the place where Maya mothers were wont to go before and after birthgiving.

However, Eliade argues, Judaism elaborated its mythology of linear time by adding elements borrowed from Zoroastrianism — including ethical dualism, a savior figure, the future resurrection of the body, and the idea of cosmic progress toward " the final triumph of Good ".

However studies in other fields of expertise offer alternative interpretations of the possible functions, which principally centre on the astronomy, engineering, geometry and mythology associated with the Boyne monuments.

However, the name itself is even more ancient, dating from before the Nara period and the Yamatotakeru mythology.

However, he is the only irredeemably tragic character in Finnish mythology.

However, the Germanic languages appear to have had a northward rather than southward progression from the initial contact with the speakers of Indo-European languages near Denmark or Jutland H. Davidson notes a similar northward progression of mythology where elements of Proto-Germanic concepts have morphed or been combined by the time of the recording of the Icelandic sagas.

However ancient authors such as Macrobius shared MacRitchie's beliefs that the " giants " of mythology were not giants in size, but huge in impiety ( or their primitiveness ).

However, in general, their mythology is more closely related to the mythology of the Maya peoples who are their near neighbors

However, most of contemporary scholars don't regard Annales seu cronici incliti regni Poloniae as a reliable source on Slavic mythology and have doubts about existence of such deity in Slavic pantheon.