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However, a good sword blow arriving in exactly perpendicular angle to the surface could cut through the links ; when the mail was not riveted, a well placed thrust from a spear or thin sword could penetrate, and a pollaxe or halberd blow could break through the armour.
However, many units retained cuirasses and helmets for their protective value against sword and bayonet strikes and the morale boost these provide to the wearers.
However, lacking his sword, Freyr will be killed by the fire jötunn Surtr during the events of Ragnarök.
The blade was around 18 inches ( 55 cm ) long, on the end of a pole 6 or 7 feet ( 180 – 210 cm ) long However, instead of having a tang like a sword or naginata, the blade is affixed in a socket-shaft configuration similar to an axe head, both the blade and shaft varying in length.
However, during the Joseon dynasty, a variety of swords were used uniformly by Korean soldiers, including but not limited to the hwando ( single edged sabre ), Hwandudaedo, Jedok geom ( literally, the " Admiral's " sword ), and the yedo.
However the native types of blade known as kris, parang, klewang and golok are popular to be used as weapon rather than sword.
However, the women of the village come into possession of a magic sword, and go in search of a hero who is able to wield it and save their village from the evil bandit.
However, the Golden Gate was only constructed in 1037 and the sword is actually dated to the late 12th or 13th century.
However, the enemy's overwhelming numbers rendered resistance hopeless, and after a ten-day siege the city was taken and most of the defenders put to the sword.
However, the celebrated American sword and sorcery author Fritz Leiber replied in the journal Ancalagon ( 6 April 1961 ) suggesting " sword-and-sorcery as a good popular catchphrase for the field ".
However, he is warned that the Force is a double edged sword ; its dark side is seductive and could corrupt him into an agent of evil if he gives into his anger and aggression.
However, the sword was drawn as Frank Sinatra singing " Witchcraft ", a wordplay of the name of the sword.
In the Epistles of Wisdom, Hamza ibn -' Ali ibn-Ahmad warns Ad-Darazi, saying, “ Faith does not need a sword to aid it .” However, Ad-Darazi refused Hamza ’ s threats and continued to challenge the Imam.
However, in 1745, a cashiered British officer could have his sword broken over his head, among other indignities inflicted on him.
However, U. S. National Park Service historian Jerome Green, in his 2005 history of the siege, The Guns of Independence, concurs with the 1881 centennial account by Johnston, noting simply that when Brigadier General O ' Hara presented the sword to Major General Lincoln, " he held it for a moment and immediately returned it to O ' Hara.
However, Musashi states within the volume that one should train with a long sword in each hand, thereby training the body and improving one's ability to use two blades simultaneously, though the aim of this was only for training purposes and wasn't meant to be a viable fighting style.
However, you can become a master of strategy by training alone with a sword, so that you can understand the enemy's stratagems, his strength and resources, and come to appreciate how to apply strategy to beat ten thousand enemies.
However, although apprenticed to Soko in the military arts, Asano showed a marked lack of samurai spirit as well as a lack of sword skill in his attack on Kira.
However, Staurakios was paralyzed by a sword wound near his neck, and was saved by the Imperial guard which retreated from the battlefield towards the safety of Adrianople.
However, if the sword is tempered to a springy hardness, it will be more likely to return to its original shape.
However, a sword tempered in this way can usually be resharpened many times, and, although the hardness will decrease with each sharpening, the reduction in hardness will usually not be noticeable until a large amount of steel has been removed.
However, a legend claims that during the Bumps in that year, the rowers of Trinity's arch-rivals, St John's College, attached a sword to the front of one of their boats such that if they successfully bumped the boat in front ( which turned out to be one of Second Trinity's ), it would be holed and sink.

However and immediate
However, the dispute over the Armenian Genocide and the recent war over Nagorno-Karabakh have created tense relations with two of its immediate neighbors, Azerbaijan and Turkey.
However, on account of the immediate Sassanid threat, Constantius was unable to directly respond to his cousin ’ s usurpation other than by sending missives by which he tried to convince Julian to resign the title of Augustus and be satisfied with that of Caesar.
However a high index of suspicion is appropriate, since diarrhea and bloating are also symptoms of typhlitis, a very serious and potentially life-threatening medical emergency which requires immediate treatment.
However, in both styles, tension and compression do not signal immediate movement: the follow must be careful not to move prior to actual movement by the lead.
However at the 8th Party Congress held in 1919, the Political Bureau ( Politburo ) was established to respond to questions needing immediate responses.
However, conflicts over immediate and minor goals may lead to questioning the purpose of design, perhaps to set better long term or ultimate goals.
However, in 2008 the Food Festival was cancelled due to numerous complaints of disruption to residents and some businesses in the immediate proximity ; it has been replaced by a series of smaller events, spread out over the year.
However, Haitian peasants forced to work in the corvée labor-gangs, frequently dragged from their homes and harassed by armed guards, received few immediate benefits and saw this system of forced labor as a return to slavery at the hands of white men.
However removal of sanctions, after the overthrow of Saddam, had immediate effect.
However, not all idealists restrict the real or the knowable to our immediate subjective experience.
However, the city council pressed for the immediate appointment of Calvin in Geneva.
However, the immediate response to the 1816 collection was to ignore Christabel and Kubla Khan or to just attack Kubla Khan.
However, the historical records of abuses against Jews in the immediate post-1148 period are subject to different interpretations.
However, before the Marshall Plan was in effect, France, Austria, and Italy needed immediate aid.
However, while the primary and immediate precepts cannot be " blotted out ", the secondary precepts can be.
However, they were primarily written for immediate and day-to-day use in Newton's ministry of Olney.
However, the modern version of pasteurization involving immediate cooling is much more recent.
However, despite a Woolworths store on its ground floor, a major travel company housed on the floor above, and a restaurant offering fine views over the city on the top floor, the economic situation of the time meant that it would not be followed by more buildings in that vein: no further redevelopment in the immediate vicinity of Potsdamer Platz occurred prior to World War II, and so Columbushaus would always seem out of place in that location.
However, the immediate result of an insertion or removal may violate the properties of a red – black tree.
However, distance and topography make their immediate development costly.
However, Tamar's Pontic endeavor can better be explained by her desire to take advantage of the Western European Fourth Crusade against Constantinople to set up a friendly state in Georgia's immediate southwestern neighborhood, as well as by the dynastic solidarity to the dispossessed Comnenoi.
However, winter sets in, preventing an immediate battle.
However, it has immediate practical consequences – when defining a group object in category theory, where the object in question may not be a set, one must use equational laws ( which make sense in general categories ), and cannot use quantified laws ( which do not, as objects in general categories do not have elements ).
However, the discipline of intellectual history as it is now understood emerged only in the immediate postwar period, in its earlier incarnation as “ the history of ideas ” under the leadership of Arthur Lovejoy, the founder of the Journal of the History of Ideas.

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