However, they were later overtaken in the polls by the Conservatives and at the 1983 general election the Conservatives triumphed by a landslide, with Labour once again forming the opposition, while the SDP-Liberal Alliance came close to Labour in terms of votes ( a share of more than 25 %) although it only had 23 MPs compared to Labour's 209.

However, since the contras failed to win widespread popular support or military victories within Nicaragua, since opinion polls indicated that a majority of the U. S. public was not supportive of the contras, since the Reagan administration lost much of its support regarding its contra policy within Congress after disclosure of CIA mining of Nicaraguan ports, and since a report of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research commissioned by the State Department found Reagan's allegations about Soviet influence in Nicaragua " exaggerated ", Congress cut off all funds for the contras in 1985 by the third Boland Amendment.

However, polls showed the Sandinista government still enjoyed strong support from Nicaraguans.

However, polls in Australia have recorded a range of self-identified lesbian or bisexual women from 1. 3 % to 2. 2 % of the total population.

However, the popularity of the governing parties declined sharply, and several new parties that earned relatively high levels of support in public opinion polls appeared on the political scene.

However, the polls have been known to be inaccurate in the past ( for example, in the run up to the 1992 General Election ).

However, benefiting from positive polls, Balladur decided to be a presidential candidate, with the support of a majority of right-wing politicians.

However, the Immigration Department which is responsible for processing applications for name change allows applicants to submit such applications without deed polls ; anyone who has a phonetic English name only and wishes to include a western-style English name as part of his or her legal English name can apply to the Immigration Department without a deed poll.

However, the Progressive Conservatives had misjudged the electorate, since they had not commissioned any polls since August.

However, no women were elected to office in that year ’ s polls and instead Shī ´ a and Sunnī Islamic parties dominated the election, collectively winning a majority of seats.

However, its success at the polls did not translate into a lasting party machinery.

However, the resignation of long-serving but at that point unpopular Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher and the well-received election of John Major as her successor had seen the comfortable Labour lead in the opinion polls wiped out and in the 17 months leading up to the election its outcome had become much less predictable.

However, Villepin obtained favorable reviews from the press and temporarily increased popularity in polls.

However, less than 72 hours before a planned election call, with the NDP riding high in the polls for its hard line against welfare recipients and aboriginal and environmental radicals, the party's provincial office was raided by Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) officers as part of an ongoing investigation of illegal use of charity bingo money, coined " Bingogate " by the media, by former provincial cabinet minister and member of parliament Dave Stupich.

However, Britain's success in the conflict saw Margaret Thatcher and her Tory government surge back to the top of the opinion polls, and her position was stengthened further by the end of the year as the recession ended and more voters had faith in her economic policies.

However, the beginning of the Falklands War the following spring radically shifted the attitude of the electorate, and the Conservatives regained the lead in polls from the Alliance by a wide margin.

However, legalising abortion remains controversial and according to some opinion polls up to 70 % support the ban on abortion as it currently stands.

However, the party began a steady decline in the polls for several reasons.

However, most western democratic nations don't support the entire prohibition of the publication of pre-election opinion polls ; most of them have no regulation and some only prohibit it in the final days or hours until the relevant poll closes.

However, polls conducted from 1966 to 2004 found that as many as 80 percent of Americans have suspected that there was a plot or cover-up.

However, polls of Muslim nations indicate these denials are not trusted.

However, polls concerning preferred leader still positioned Kim Beazley well below John Howard.

However, that law does not concern surveys and polls, which are free to ask those questions if they wish.

However, it became increasingly clear that the caucus preferred Finance Spokesman John Key, whose rating steadily rose in " preferred Prime Minister " polls.

However, just as all the buildings have not fallen and flowed back to their original mud, so the values which wanted them and saw that they were built have not all disappeared.

However, Biblical scholars frequently attested to its numerous inaccuracies, as old manuscripts were uncovered and scholarship advanced.

However, last night the tapes were not run at all during the evening hours and all we got on TV were a few snatches which Douglas Edwards and Huntley and Brinkley could squeeze into their programs.

However, it determined that neither this factor, nor `` the fact that all concerned in high executive posts in both companies acted honorably and fairly, each in the honest conviction that his actions were in the best interests of his own company and without any design to overreach anyone, including Du Pont's competitors '', outweighed the Government's claim for relief.

However, they do demonstrate the presence of large normal pressures in the presence of flat shear fields which were forecast by the theory in the first part of the paper.

However, the statistical offices of both governments were assigned responsibility for the planning and analysis of these statistics.

However, they were hostile to Jewish Orthodoxy, professing to believe in Judaism `` but in a moderate way ''.

However, the positions of all parties and leaders were constantly shifting.

However, the wei books were also destroyed in a series of Orthodox Confucian purges which culminated in a final proscription in 605.

However, while usually Greek festivals were celebrated at the full moon, all the feasts of Apollo were celebrated at the seventh day of the month, and the emphasis given to that day ( sibutu ) indicates a Babylonian origin.

However, recent work suggests that some agnostids were benthic predators, engaging in cannibalism and possibly manifesting pack-hunting behavior.

However, they were generally occupied for a mere 30 years or less.

However, data from the National Statistical Service shows that there were only 65, 000 foreigners staying in Armenian hotels in 2009.

However, by mid-1837 the South Australian Register was warning of escaped convicts from New South Wales, and tenders for a temporary gaol were sought.

However, these claims were given up in about 1870 during the War of the Pacific between Chile, the allied Bolivia and Peru, in a diplomatic deal to keep Argentina out of the war.

However, tyrannosaurid forelimbs were extremely small for their body size and retained only two digits.

However, this theory is undermined by the disproportional fear of spiders in comparison to other, potentially dangerous creatures that were present during Homo sapiens environment of evolutionary adaptiveness.

However, no incidents of violence against spring breakers were reported.

However, if we look for the peoples in the region from the upper Main in the north, south to the Danube and east to the Czech Republic where the Quadi and Marcomanni were located, Ptolemy does not give any tribes.

However, this was halted as a report reached Constantinople that the Safavids were invading the Ottoman Empire, causing a period of panic, turning the Sultan's attention away from Russia.

However, Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sussex said Kanzō Umehara considered the Ainu and some Ryukyuans to have " preserved their proto-Mongoloid traits " According to anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons physical features of the Proto-Mongoloid were characterized as, " a straight-haired type, medium in complexion, jaw protrusion, nose-breadth, and inclining probably to round-headedness ".

However, before they were to gain entry into the sanctuary, Straboromanos and royal guards caught up with them to summon them back to the palace.

However, later that month, on 22 January, the English were defeated at the Battle of Basing and, on the 22 March at the Battle of Merton ( perhaps Marden in Wiltshire or Martin in Dorset ), in which Æthelred was killed.