However badly the Tories were convulsed in the past, they just about held together.
However badly you screwed up, Bridget was the friend who invariably went one worse.
However badly it ended, Dr. Shaikh's brief tenure was not a contentious one.
She is, predictably, delighted to be back, however badly burned she was the last time.
The self-made illusionist who couldn't tolerate a lie remains a bewitchingly impressive figure, however badly dressed he is.
However badly politicians behave, chief executives usually respect the convention so as to secure the mechanism for future use.
Mr Kaunda assumed that the copper mines would provide an inexhaustible source of revenue, however badly managed.
Of course, a broker will always proclaim the Manhattan market's waterproof qualities, however badly the ship may be listing.
While many Cubans relish the incremental, unfolding changes, many are anxious they will lose subsidised food and goods and state jobs, however badly paid.
One thing he learned as he went about auditing books for various small, independent companies was that, however badly organised such concerns were, they somehow managed to survive.
Europe, argues the country's main western-backed opposition movement, can and must do more – however badly it is distracted by problems closer to home.
