However, the Almoravid religious influence was gradual and not heavily involved in military strife, as Almoravids increased in power by marrying among the nation's nobility.

However, as occurred so often in this region, the demise in 1030 of this military genius who had expanded the empire to its farthest reaches was the death knell of the dynasty itself.

However, Confucius relied solely on diplomacy as he had no military authority himself.

However, according to Justinus, 38. 3. 6, more than a decade later, at some time in 90-88 BCE, Mithridates the Great sent ambassadors to the Cimbri to request military aid ; judging from the context they must have been living in North Eastern Europe at the time.

However, it was one of the only military products that China imported from foreigners.

However, they were also aware that the Rump might be all that stood in the way of an outright military dictatorship.

All other forms of intrastate conflict, such as rebellion, are not accounted for because, in theoretical terms, Clausewitz could not account for warfare before the state ( However, near the end of his life, Clausewitz grew increasingly aware of the importance of non-state military actors.

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 the unstable nature of nitroglycerin, especially if subjected to freezing, has rendered it obsolete for military uses.

However, they soon began to loot the holy places of Lhasa, which brought a swift response from Emperor Kangxi in 1718 ; but his military expedition was annihilated by the Dzungars, not far from Lhasa.

However, Eritrea condemned Israeli military action during the 2008 – 2009 Israel – Gaza conflict.

However, Eugene's military career suffered a temporary setback in 1688 when, on 6 September, the Prince suffered a severe wound to his knee by a musket ball during the Siege of Belgrade.

However, Satie's military career did not last very long ; within a few months he was discharged after deliberately infecting himself with bronchitis.

However, military historians such as former Royal Marine Julian Thompson have written that these lessons should not have needed a debacle such as Dieppe to be recognised.

However, attempts to establish military alliances were unsuccessful.

However, given that unlike Russia, America refused to give extensive military aid to the country, the government of Daoud Khan developed warmer ties with the USSR while officially remaining non-aligned.

However, he had hardly interest in military affairs.

However, the Alliance oppresses the colonies with its military power.

However, the resulting economic integration and military co-operation between the English and Dutch Navies shifted the dominance in world trade from the Dutch Republic to England and later to Great Britain.

However, General López Gutiérrez, who now effectively controlled the military situation, made it clear that he was determined to be the next president.

However, due to the stance taken by the United Nations and the Organization of American States on use of military force to depose a president, most countries in the region and in the world continued to recognize Zelaya as the President of Honduras and denounced the actions as an assault on democracy.

However, the elected civilian presidents were effectively figureheads with real political power being exercised by the chief of the military.

However, the symbolic role of a Head of State is generally performed by Kim Jong-un, who as the leader of the party and military, is the most powerful person in North Korea.

However, Trajan's Dacian Wars may have led to troop reductions in the area or even total withdrawal followed by slighting of the forts by the Picts rather than an unrecorded military defeat.

However, the program was cancelled in the early 1970s due to a shift away from anti-submarine warfare by the Canadian military.

However, Gaddafi retained virtually all power, continuing to operate and control vestiges of the military junta put in place in 1969.

However, with increasing bonhomie between the Indian government and the Burma junta and KIA becoming the main source of training and weapons for all northeastern rebel groups, R & AW initiated Operation Leech, with the help of Army and paramilitary forces, to assassinate the leaders of the Burmese rebels as an example to other groups.

However, after 1986, China withdrew support for the CPB and began supplying the military junta with the majority of its arms in exchange for increased access to Burmese markets and a rumoured naval base on Coco Islands in the Andaman Sea.

However, its use by the military junta of 1967-1974 made it extremely unpopular, and it has almost disappeared from use after 1974, with the notable exception of the Order of the Phoenix, the country's second-highest award.

However, prior to that, Somoza worked out an agreement allowing him to stand for re-election in 1974 ; he would be replaced as president by a three-man junta consisting of two Liberals and one Conservative while retaining control of the National Guard.

However Panayotis Kanellopoulos, the last legitimate prime minister of Greece prior to the coup, acting as witness for the prosecution, at the junta trials in 1975 during metapolitefsi, testified how he was arrested by machine-gun toting soldiers and transported to the palace to meet king Constantine.

However, with a gradual withdrawal of Chinese support, in 1989 the Communist Party of Burma soon disintegrated into warlord led groups that negotiated ceasefire deals with the junta.

However, former Udon Thani MP Thirachai Saenkaew, called for the junta to allow Thaksin to contest the next election, claiming that TRT supporters wanted Thaksin to return to politics.

However, for the entire period of his premiership Anand faced constant pressure from the junta leaders, who tried to influence government decisions in order to gain financial benefits.

However, neither he nor any of the other " presidents " of the junta were recognized by the constitutional forces led by President Benito Juárez, nor were they recognized by the United States which appointed an ambassador to Juárez's government instead.

However, widespread allegations of fraud prompted the Peruvian military to depose Prado and install a military junta, led by Ricardo Pérez Godoy.

However, the Georgadjis connection became known to the junta and Archbishop Makarios, President of the Republic of Cyprus, was forced by the junta to ask for Georkadjis ' resignation.

However Colonel Türkeş was expelled by an internal coup within the junta.

' However critics claim that such foreign investment by Nippon Oil and other multinationals: ' provides a crucial source of support to the junta, allowing it to ignore demands that it return Burma to civilian rule and end human rights abuses.

However, following the rise of Mengistu Haile Mariam to power as chairman of the ruling Derg, the military junta that had taken control of Ethiopia, ideological conflict developed between the two groups, with the EPRP accusing Mengistu of possessing a fascist ideology and engaging in assassinations and terrorist attacks against Derg leaders and supporters.

However the Governing Council ( conservative junta ) there refused to recognize him as president.

However, under the military junta of the Proceso ( 1976 – 1983 ) and the following democratic Alfonsín administration, FA entered a recessive period that ended with its total privatisation beginning in 1992, as part of Menem's neoliberal reforms.

However, the junta ended up not backing Surin.

However, the election was widely denounced as fraudulent by elements on both sides of the political spectrum and an army-led coup d ' état on 23 March instead installed the three-man junta of General Efraín Ríos Montt, General Horacio Maldonado Schaad, and Colonel Francisco Luis Gordillo Martínez.

However, throughout this period the presidency was held by Park Chung-hee, who had also been an influential member of the junta.