By the end of the nineteenth century, most of Africa had been colonised by European countries. __________________there were large areas of Asia and the Americas where colonisation was impossible.

In sharp contrast
To take yet another illustration
As a result
To some extent it is true to say that

The typical industrial city produced iron and steel. ____________________ it was different from the new capital city which tended to be the cultural centre for the new nation state.

A more fundamental objection to this argument is that
In this respect
This, so it is argued, was the reason why
Some would say that this by itself is sufficient explanation. However

In both France and England women accounted for between 36 and 37% of the workforce by the end of the war. ____________ women were being placed in a stronger position to demand full democratic rights come the end of the war.

However
A more fundamental objection to this argument is that
In sharp contrast
These figures suggest that

It has usually been agreed that the generals did not care about saving lives. ____________________ ‘The men were often gallant fighters but their generals as often gave away in stupidity what they gained in ignorance’.

The crucial question may therefore be:
To illustrate with another statistic:
As T.E. Lawrence put it:
By contrast:

Politics and economics cannot be separated in a capitalist society, just as religion and society cannot be separated in an Islamic society.____________________ it does not take into account the different types of Islamic societies developing in the late twentieth century.

This comparison however is misleading because
These statistics however are misleading because
This quotation however is misleading because
This criticism however is misleading because

It has been suggested that incompetent leadership was responsible for the heavy losses. __________________________________________________________________ Firstly the British had to attack while the Germans were able to defend. Secondly poor communications increased losses on the battlefront. Thirdly, the British army was not designed for a continental war.

A more fundamental objection to this argument has been made.
The following quotation indicates suggests that this was not the whole truth.
Although this argument has some merit, a number of qualifications need to be made.
This argument throws up a number of questions.

_______________________________________ American oil resources would have lasted until the end of the war.

The argument that
More difficult to answer is the question as to whether
More difficult to assess is the truth of the following quotation:
The truth was quite different as the following statistics suggest: