However, the elite Delta Force and other special operations units have fielded the HK416 in combat, and Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn has called for a " free and open competition " to determine whether the army should buy the HK416 or continue to purchase more M4 carbines.

However, due to its location among the rivers, lakes, and canals of the Yangtze Delta, locals favour freshwater produce just as much as saltwater products like crabs, oysters, and seaweed.

However, Chiang's influence never extended beyond the Yangtze Delta, and the rest of the country was under the effective control of former warlords, and Chiang faced insurrections from them throughout the 1930s, even after the Northern Expedition, which had nominally unified the country.

However, beginning in 2003 Dmitri Vasilyev of Astrakhan State University led a series of excavations at the Samosdelskoye site near the village of Samosdelka ( Russian: Самосделка ) in the Volga Delta.

However, the namesake for classical Cepheids is the star Delta Cephei, discovered to be variable by John Goodricke a few months later.

However, the namesake for classical Cepheids is the star Delta Cephei, discovered to be variable by John Goodricke a few months later.

However, compared to early air-superiority designs such as the F-100 or F-8, the massive Phantom nevertheless had enough raw twin-J79 power to prove adaptable as the preferred platform for tangling with agile MiG-17 and MiG-21 fighters over the skies of Vietnam, as well as replacing the US Air Force Convair F-102 Delta Dagger and Convair F-106 Delta Dart for continental interception duties and the Republic F-105 Thunderchief as a medium fighter-bomber.

However, in Delta Blues and other rural or folk style blues women rarely recorded the blues.

However, he allowed Wallis to assist Molly with her mathematics courses by correspondence, and they wrote some 250 letters, enlivening them with fictional characters such as " Duke Delta X ".

However, the joint Nguyễn-Siam fleet was destroyed in the Battle of Rach Gam – Xoai Mut in the Mekong Delta region.

However, after the merger with Northwest, Delta Connection service to Grand Rapids started.

However, Pan Am continued operating its daily non-stop Tegel – JFK service until Delta Air Lines assumed most of Pan Am's transatlantic scheduled services during 1991.

However, by 1993 most, if not all, cartel fugitives had been imprisoned or hunted and gunned down by the Colombian National Police trained and assisted by U. S. Delta Force units and the CIA.

However, the Delta II system does not have a perfect success record.

However on September 30, 2011, NASA modified the NASA Launch Services II ( NLS-II ) contract to allow for the continuing order of Delta II launchers in agreement with ULA.

However the Jazz won the next two games at the Delta Center behind Malone's 37 points in Game 3 and 23 in Game 4, including a game-winning fastbreak lay-up off a spectacular assist by Stockton in the last minute.

However one of Frank's team member's Ruiz, is captured during an ambush and Frank, his Delta Force Squad and the remaining SEALs rush through the town to find him.

However, when the chapter at Marietta College was chartered in 1860, it too was given the Delta designation, despite the parent chapter being aware of this discrepancy.

However, the traditions of Alpha Sigma Phi were carried on by two new sophomore class societies, Delta Beta Xi and Phi Theta Psi.

However, SAD / SOG has far fewer members than most of the other special missions units, such as the U. S. Army's 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta ( Delta Force ) or Naval Special Warfare Development Group.

However, an audit of the bank disputed U. S. allegations and indicated that the only time Banco Delta Asia had knowingly handled counterfeit money was in 1994 when it discovered and turned over $ 10, 000 in counterfeit $ 100 bills to local authorities.

However, with the combined factors of a declining satellite launch market, low customer confidence following the two consecutive failures, and the advent of Boeing's new Delta IV, this would prove to be the Delta III's final launch campaign.

However, I am recommending that development work on the B-70 air-frame and engines be continued.

However, he continued experimenting and lecturing, publishing the results of his experiments in German and Danish periodicals.

However, he continued his slave trading career until 1754 or 1755, when he ended his seafaring altogether and began studying Christian theology.

However, the lower-class foot soldiers continued to think of Adhemar as a leader ; some of them claimed to have been visited by his ghost during the siege of Jerusalem, and reported that Adhemar instructed them to hold another procession around the walls.

However, despite a push for new antibiotic therapies there has been a continued decline in the number of newly approved drugs.

However, since Paul was from Cilicia and refers to himself using this name ( see Acts 21: 39, 22: 3 ), it seems very natural that the name Cilicia would have continued to be in colloquial use among its residents despite its hiatus in official Roman nomenclature.

However, several bands continued and arrangers provided renowned arrangements.

However, the effects of acid rain can last for generations, as the effects of pH level change can stimulate the continued leaching of undesirable chemicals into otherwise pristine water sources, killing off vulnerable insect and fish species and blocking efforts to restore native life.

However Champion continued to use the cheaper calamine cementation method to produce lower zinc brass and the archaeological remains of bee-hive shaped cementation furnaces have been identified at his works at Warmley.

However, the series continued in Australia and the United Kingdom, with a further ten volumes being issued between 1999 and 2001.

However, Pascal continued to make improvements to his design through the next decade and built twenty machines in total.

However, the role of Western bishops as civil authorities, often called prince bishops, continued throughout much of the Middle Ages.

However, during the many wars of the Roman Empire, barbarians continued using mob tactics.

However, both the Soviet Union and Iraq, at a minimum, secretly defied the treaty and continued research and production of offensive biological weapons, despite being signatories to it.

However, drowsiness and tolerance become problems with continued use and none are now considered first-line choices for long-term epilepsy therapy.

However, the civic traditions of many boroughs were continued by the grant of a charter to their successor district councils.

However, when John Knox returned to Scotland in 1559, he continued to use the Form of Prayer he had created for the English exiles in Geneva, and in 1564, this supplanted the Book of Common Prayer under the title of the Book of Common Order.

However, unrest continued, sparked in part by large-scale killings of civilians in southern Chad.

However, a bombing in February 2005 shut the pipeline for several weeks, and attacks against the electrical gird system that provides energy to the Caño Limón oilfield have continued.

However, he was an insatiable reader, and continued to teach himself after he left school.

However sales of Jane Eyre continued to be strong, and may have increased as a result of the novel developing a reputation as an ' improper ' book.

However, the orange helmet with black tiger stripes continued to be the team's primary trademark.

However, after some convincing by one of Constantius ’ agents, Gallus continued his journey west, passing through Constantinople and Thrace to Poetovio ( Ptuj ) in Pannonia.

However, it continued to use native x86 execution and ordinary microcode only, like Centaur's Winchip, unlike competitors Intel and AMD which introduced the method of dynamic translation to micro-operations with Pentium Pro and K5.

However, the contradiction of simultaneously upholding tradition and embracing innovations was impossible to resolve and, as a consequence, the clergy continued to lose influence over secular affairs in eighteenth-century New England.