However, the sovereign was not Hobbes' absolute monarch but rather the parliamentary sovereign of Austin.

However, international observers have questioned the fairness of Armenia's parliamentary and presidential elections and constitutional referendum since 1995, citing polling deficiencies, lack of cooperation by the Electoral Commission, and poor maintenance of electoral lists and polling places.

However, Canada has evolved variations: party discipline in Canada is stronger than in the United Kingdom and more parliamentary votes are considered motions of confidence, which tends to diminish the role of non-Cabinet Members of Parliament ( MPs ).

However, members were divided over key issues, only 25 had previous parliamentary experience, and although many had some legal training, there were no qualified lawyers.

However, they tend to greatly lengthen campaigns, and make dissolving the legislature ( parliamentary system ) more problematic if the date should happen to fall at time when dissolution is inconvenient ( e. g. when war breaks out ).

However, in most parliamentary systems, the head of state cannot refuse to sign a bill, and, in granting a bill their assent, indicate that it was passed in accordance with the correct procedures.

However, the central government in India has greater power in relation to its states, and its central government is patterned after the British parliamentary system.

However, in the previous parliamentary elections in 2002, Tito's opponents won major victories, and in March 2003 he was ousted in a no-confidence vote ( having served the maximum three terms, he is barred by the constitution to run for another term ).

However parliamentary delays meant it was 4 March 1756 before a special act of parliament created four battalions of 1, 000 men each to include foreigners for service in the Americas.

However, despite the recognition he enjoyed within the Christian Democrat parliamentary faction, he was passed over during various cabinet reshuffles.

However, from the mid-1970s until the parliamentary elections in 1992, civil war precluded the exercise of political rights.

However, successive electoral redistributions after 1964 indicated that the Country Party was losing ground electorally to the Liberals as the rural population declined, and the nature of some parliamentary seats on the urban / rural fringe changed.

However, stamps from Henry Archer's perforation trials had been issued the last few months of 1850, then during the 1851 parliamentary session of 1851, at the House of Commons, and finally in 1853 / 54 after the government paid Mr. Archer £ 4, 000 for his machine and the patent.

However, in the second parliamentary elections held on May 30, 1950, the majority of seats went to independents, confirming the lack of support and the fragile state of the nation.

However the SLD could not avoid from suffering a huge defeat in the 2005 parliamentary election, SLD only won 11. 3 % of the vote.

However, the parishes northeast of the Helford River are in Camborne and Redruth parliamentary constituency

However, Scotland has a tradition of popular sovereignty as opposed to parliamentary sovereignty and the fact that the Scottish parliament was established following a referendum would make it politically difficult to significantly alter its powers without popular consent.

However, a series of resignations, defections to other parties, and by-elections early in the new parliamentary session reduced the Liberals to a minority position.

However, in the 2001 parliamentary elections PSL received 9 % of votes and formed a coalition with the Democratic Left Alliance, an alliance which later broke down.

However, they do not cooperate with the Global Greens or European Greens, but instead form a combined parliamentary group with the Party of the European Left, which unites communists and post-communists.

However, the Duchess of Teck was granted a parliamentary annuity of £ 5000, and received about £ 4000 a year from her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge.

However, his expensive campaign, slick image, lack of parliamentary experience, and vague policy positions did not endear him to many delegates, and he was unable to build upon his base support, being overtaken by eventual winner Joe Clark on the second ballot.

However, his position was far more precarious than his parliamentary majority would suggest.

However, after the Liberals and Social Democrats secured a parliamentary majority under Staaff's successor, Nils Edén, he allowed Edén to form a new government which de facto stripped the monarchy of all virtual powers and enacted universal and equal suffrage, including for women, by 1919.

However, a parliamentary enquiry then found no evidence against Strauss.

However, any activity outside the rules of the game is not legally recognized as a defense of consent.

However, the rules do not specify whether a player should hold his shares of stock face up or face down.

However, legislating for alterations to the Act is a complex process, since the act is a common denominator in the shared succession of all the Commonwealth realms and the Statute of Westminster 1931 acknowledges by established convention that any changes to the rules of succession may be made only with the agreement of all of the states involved, with concurrent amendments to be made by each state's parliament or parliaments.

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, footy or Aussie rules However, late in the century the code began to decline in New South Wales and Queensland largely due to competition with other more popular football codes, as well as interstate rivalries and the lack of strong local governing bodies.

However, such a tactic was not recorded as a stolen base, and modern rules forbid going backwards on the basepaths in order to " confuse the defense or make a travesty of the game ".

However, this was considered " unmanly " and was frequently disallowed by additional rules negotiated by the Seconds of the Boxers.

However, Ian Hacking noted that traditional Dutch book arguments did not specify Bayesian updating: they left open the possibility that non-Bayesian updating rules could avoid Dutch books.

However, stare decisis, the principle that similar cases should be decided according to consistent principled rules so that they will reach similar results, lies at the heart of all common law systems.

However, players are free to, and often do, invent " house rules " to supplement or even largely replace the " standard " rules.

However, rule consequentialism chooses rules based on the consequences that the selection of those rules have.

However, the earliest known civilizations had codes of law, containing both civil and penal rules mixed together, though not always in recorded form.

However, as per rules of Islamic Fiqas, Halal ( permitted ) from Muhammad cannot be altered by any authority or individual.

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 innovative jurisprudence did not help the victims of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy who were unable to fully prosecute a class action litigation ( as understood in the American sense ) against Union Carbide due to procedural rules that would make such litigation impossible to conclude and unwieldy to carry out.

However, the new rules also stated that exceptions to the rule would be allowed in certain cases.

However, with changes in the model specification such as, in this example, hybrid gas-electric cars, rules may need to change.

However, many browsers do not check that an XML document conforms to the rules in the DTD ; they are only required to check that the DTD is syntactically correct.

" However, this does not reflect the actual ecclesiastical rules precisely.

However, the differences in the rules between the Hebrew and Gregorian cycles results in Passover falling about a month after Easter in three years of the 19-year cycle.

However, their rules were very short lived.

However, there are many franchise businesses which do not become members, and many businesses that refer to themselves as franchisors do not conform to these rules.

However, this did not give them enough capital to publish the rules for Dungeons & Dragons and, worried that other companies would be able to publish similar projects first, the two convinced acquaintance Brian Blume to join TSR in December 1973 as an equal one-third partner.