Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.

Thus the middle number, 5, represented Sung-Shan in Honan, Central China ; ;

Thus, no two nuclear powers have yet fought a conventional war directly, with the exception of brief skirmishes between for example, China and Russia in the 1969 Sino-Soviet conflict and between India and Pakistan in the 1999 Kargil War.

Thus, female medical missionary Dr. Mary H. Fulton ( 1854-1927 ) was sent by the Foreign Missions Board of the Presbyterian Church ( USA ) to found the first medical college for women in China.

Thus Huia recurvata is an extinct species of plant, found as fossils in Yunnan, China, whereas Huia masonii is a species of frog found in Java, Indonesia.

Thus, he sent a representative with his armies to China.

Thus counting China, from 1941, Poland was the 5th biggest ally.

Thus the 1867 – 68 famine under the Tongzhi Restoration was successfully relieved but the Great North China Famine of 1877 – 78, caused by drought across northern China, was a catastrophe.

Thus the struggle for power in China began between the KMT and the CPC.

Thus the Wei court, controlling Northern China at the time, reluctantly yielded areas already occupied to the Wu Hu and sometimes colonized areas depopulated by war with some weaker tribes of herdsmen.

Thus, Kublai Khan was simultaneously Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of China.

Thus, by 1900, the Qing dynasty, which had ruled China for more than two centuries, was crumbling and Chinese culture was under assault by powerful and unfamiliar religions and secular cultures.

Thus, under this proposal, the Republic of China would be made fully defunct.

Thus, until the 1980s power in the Republic of China was personalized rather than institutionalized which meant that the power of the president depended largely on who occupied the office.

Thus he was granted his wish with perhaps the only and infamous case of " extermination of ten agnates " in the history of China.

Thus for instance, ' if in a face-to-face relationship with a friend I discuss a magazine article dealing with the attitude of the President and Congress toward ... China ... I am in a relationship not only with the perhaps anonymous contemporary writer of the article but also with the contemporary individual or collective actors on the social scene designated by the terms " President ", " Congress ", " China "'.

Thus, female medical missionary Dr. Mary H. Fulton ( 1854-1927 ) was sent by the Foreign Missions Board of the Presbyterian Church ( USA ) to found the first medical college for women in China.

Thus in 1982, China perceivably had four main leaders: Hu Yaobang, the Party General Secretary ; Zhao Ziyang, the Premier ; Li Xiannian, the President ; and Deng Xiaoping, the " Paramount Leader ", holding title of the CMC Chairman.

Thus, the claimed area of the ROC continues to include mainland China, several off-shore islands, and Taiwan.

Thus, Penghu is listed separately from " Taiwan " in some contexts, e. g. the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu ( the official WTO name for the Republic of China ) in the Treaty of Shimonoseki, the Cairo Declaration, and the Treaty of San Francisco ( see above ).

Thus, a wide bipartisan support is needed to change the official flag of the Republic of China ( Taiwan ).

Thus, the Intermediate People's Court of Foshan, People's Republic of China in a 2009 case ruled as justifiable self-defense the killing of a robber who was trying to escape, because " the robbery was still in progress " at this time.

Thus it was that the Portuguese ship, having been blown off course from China to Okinawa made their way to Tanegashima, and not directly to Japan proper.

Thus jazz is transmuted into something holy, the sacred road to integration of being.

Thus the student of literature may sometimes find it helpful to classify a poem or an essay as being in idea or in ideal content or subject matter typical or atypical of its period.

Thus, as a development program is being launched, commitments and obligations must be entered into in a given year which may exceed by twofold or threefold the expenditures to be made in that year.

Thus, there has come into being a situation in which the state must raise all of its own revenues and, in addition, must give assistance to its local governments.

Thus, in the example cited above Fromm rests his whole case on the premise that the workers are being deprived unconsciously, unknowingly, of fulfillment, and then supports this with survey data reporting conscious, experienced frustrations.

Thus she, through whom salvation was being prepared for all people, would be the first to receive the promised fruit of salvation.

Thus we have the story of his riding across a stick ( horse made of stick ) with his children and upon being discovered by a friend desiring that he not mention till he himself were the father of children ; and because of the affection of his son Archidamus ' for Cleonymus, he saved Sphodrias, Cleonymus ' father, from execution for his incursion into the Piraeus, and dishonorable retreat, in 378 BC.

Thus, there was seen a need for a new law that would ensure the continuance of the succession following the death of the last legal heir under the Bill of Rights, being Princess Anne, guaranteeing the line of succession would continue in the Protestant line, and excluding any possible claims by the deposed James II or his son and daughter, James Francis Edward and Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart.

Thus, in Steiner's view, we can overcome the subject-object divide through inner activity, even though all human experience begins by being conditioned by it.

Thus, anthroposophy considers there to be a being who unifies all religions, and who is not represented by any particular religious faith.

Thus there are alignments in all directions which would suggest there is little of astronomical significance, However, ethnohistorical records show that the various directions do have cosmological and astronomical significance with various points in the landscape being significant at different times of the year.

Thus, there are 35 possible basic contracts ( five at each of the seven levels ); 1 being the lowest, followed by 1 etc., up to 7NT, the highest possible bid.

Thus, in time, the bishop changed from being the leader of a single church confined to an urban area to being the leader of the churches of a given geographical area.

Thus, it has been known for many years that, due to repulsive Coulombic interactions, electrically charged macromolecules in an aqueous environment can exhibit long-range crystal-like correlations with interparticle separation distances, often being considerably greater than the individual particle diameter.

Thus, by monitoring eye movements, we can study what information is being processed at a given time.

Thus, covalent bonding involves sharing of electrons in which the positively charged nuclei of two or more atoms simultaneously attract the negatively charged electrons that are being shared between them.

In particular, one should think of the condition number as being ( very roughly ) the rate at which the solution, x, will change with respect to a change in b. Thus, if the condition number is large, even a small error in b may cause a large error in x.

Thus a person who owns a quarter of the shares of a joint-stock company owns a quarter of the company, is entitled to a quarter of the profit ( or at least a quarter of the profit given to shareholders as dividends ) and has a quarter of the votes capable of being cast at general meetings.

Thus we cannot define being, unity and similar concepts.

Thus any popular general-purpose data model usually well balances between being intuitive and relatively simple, and very complex with high expressive power.

Thus for instance the determinant of a matrix with integer coefficients will be an integer, and the matrix has an inverse with integer coefficients if and only if this determinant is 1 or − 1 ( these being the only invertible elements of the integers ).

Thus, while D-Cinema is a defined standard, though one that is still partly being framed by SMPTE as of 2007, E-Cinema may be anything, ranging from a DVD player connected to a consumer projector to something that approaches the quality of D-Cinema without conforming to some of the standards.

Thus, the new classicals assume that prices and wages adjust automatically to attain full employment, whereas the new Keynesians see full employment as being automatically achieved only in the long run, and hence government and central-bank policies are needed because the " long run " may be very long.

Thus gravity is the dominant force at distance in the universe, despite being much weaker.