Thus securing the loyalty of Caesar of the Western Roman Empire Constantius Chlorus, father of Constantine and grandfather of Crispus.

Thus, just short of reaching nominal majority, Constantine was eclipsed by a senior emperor.

Thus the childless Alexander I's brother Constantine Pavlovich was tsesarevich and, oddly, retained the title even after he renounced the throne in 1825 in favor of his younger brother, Nicholas I.

Thus Italy was the first among foreign Allied and neutral powers to recognize King Constantine.

Thus, Ilya supposedly served Prince Vladimir of Kiev ( ruled 980 – 1015 ); he fought Batu Khan, the founder of Golden Horde ( c. 1205 – 55 ); he saved Constantine the God-Loving, the tsar of Constantinople, from a monster ( there were a number of Byzantine emperors named Constantine, none of them contemporaries of Prince Vladimir or Batu Khan, and the one most likely to be called " God-loving " was Constantine XI, 1405 – 53 ).

Thus, Byzantine Emperor Constantine IV provided direct ecclesiastical, political and military support to the Maronites.

Thus Ani was relinquished to Emperor Constantine IX Monomachos who began the resettlement of large numbers of Armenians in Byzantine Cilicia.

Thus encouraged, the encircling regiments remained in place, maintaining continual pressure, until weakened British dispositions enabled the host to make a final surge forward.

Thus, while he recognised the benefits of citrus fruit ( although he weakened the effect by switching to a boiled concentrated or " rob ", the production of which unfortunately destroyed the vitamin C ), he never advocated citrus juice as a single solution.

Thus delaying moves, in this case the delaying move is the sacrifice of the queen has weakened the position in the game.

Thus, Fern weakened to a tropical storm prior to its Tampico landfall on October 4, dissipating later that day.

Thus when Rama VI died suddenly in 1925, aged only 44, the monarchy was already in a weakened state.

Thus instead of becoming powerful, Shalya was severely weakened and Yudhishthira could easily slay him.

Thus, the cyclone weakened to a tropical storm by 1800 UTC on July 18.

Thus in 565 or 566 Justinian's successor Justin II sent his son-in-law Baduarius as magister militum ( field commander ) to lead a Byzantine army against Alboin in support of Cunimund, ending in the Lombards ' complete defeat.

Thus, there was a short-lived eleventh century attempt to re-establish an independent Galatia by native Galatians whose aristocracy and people appealed to Anglo-Saxon and Russo-Norman mercenaries of the Byzantine Varangian Guard and Frankish Crusaders alike in establishing a new kingdom.

Thus, the monastery became the capital of a state comprising a compact and strategic region between the Lombard principality of Benevento and the Byzantine city-states of the coast ( Naples, Gaeta, and Amalfi ).

Thus the Byzantine law was created.

Thus, Priscus, a Byzantine emissary to Attila, repeatedly referred to the latter's followers as " Scythians ".

Thus the Alexiad allows the events of the First Crusade to be seen from the Byzantine elite's perspective.

Thus, on 25 July 1261, with most of the Latin troops away on campaign, the Nicaean general Alexios Strategopoulos found an unguarded entrance to the city, and entered it with his troops, restoring the Byzantine Empire for his master, Michael VIII Palaiologos.

Thus he borrowed Théodora ( 1884 ) from Byzantine annals ( which was adapted into a opera by Xavier Leroux ), La Haine ( 1874 ) from Italian chronicles, La Duchesse d ' Athénes from the forgotten records of medieval Greece.

Thus, as in Byzantine chant, the singing is always 2-parts, comprising a melody and an ison, but, as in Znamenny chant, the scale structure is always diatonic, the ornamentation is simplified in comparison with Byzantine chant, and the melodies are more similar to that of ancient Znamenny Chant, at the edge of being considered a local variety of this tradition.

Thus spurned, Argyrus contacted the Pope, and when Leo and his army moved from Rome to Apulia to engage the Normans in battle, a Byzantine army led by Argyrus personally moved from Apulia with the same plan, catching the Normans in a pinch.

Thus, the Samaritans rebelled again under the rule of emperor Anastasius I, reoccupying Mount Gerizim, which was subsequently reconquered by the Byzantine governor of Edessa, Procopius.

Thus, ultimately the defeat marked the end of Byzantine attempts to recover the Anatolian plateau, which was now lost to the empire forever.

A punitive force sent by the Bulgarians was defeated. Thus we see a continuous cycle of dynastic strife amongst Vlastimir ’ s successors, stirred on by the Byzantine and Bulgarians, who were effectively using the Serbs as pawns.

Thus, after his coup d ' état of 4 August 1936, Ioannis Metaxas proclaimed the advent of the " Third Hellenic Civilization " after the civilization of the ancient Greek and Byzantine Civilization.

Thus South Caucasus became the area of not only military, but also religious convergence, which often led to bitter conflicts with successive Persian Empires on the one side and the Roman ( later Byzantine ) Empire on the other.

Thus much of Cilicia was restored back to Byzantine control, but Thoros still held the mountainous regions in the north.

Thus in 1651, when he published the first printed edition of the works of George Acropolites, the 13th century emissary of the Byzantine Emperor who acknowledged the supremacy of the Roman pontiff and thus had become something of a celebrity, at least in the West, the Latin essay that formed the preface to this volume, De Georgiis eorumque Scriptis gained fame itself as a learned plea for the commonalities between the two churches.

Thus, the Genoan marine crushed the very pirates the Republic had created to cripple Venetian ( and Byzantine ) trade.

Thus, practice in the Eastern Catholic Churches of Byzantine Rite is identical with that described above for the Churches that constitute the Eastern Orthodox Church, but differs from that of, for instance, the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church or the Latin Church.

Thus the Byzantine army finally lost any meaningful connection with the standing imperial Roman army.

Thus, Griko should rather be described as a Doric-influenced descendant of Byzantine Greek.

Thus, at a time when Islam was rising on the borders of the Byzantine Empire and a united front was necessary to keep out Islamic infiltration, the Maronites were focused on a struggle to retain their independence against imperial power.

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

Thus, the three main categories of antisubmarine warfare operations are defense of shipping, defense of naval forces, and area defense.

Thus, a number of Allied soldiers received the Bronze Star Medal in World War II, as well as U. N. soldiers in the Korean War, Vietnamese and allied forces in the Vietnam War, and coalition forces in recent military operations such as the Gulf War, Operation Enduring Freedom and the Iraq War.

Thus, body forces are specified by vector fields which are assumed to be continuous over the entire volume of the body, i. e. acting on every point in it.

Thus, the sum of all applied forces and torques ( with respect to the origin of the coordinate system ) in the body can be given by

Thus the analysis using Newton's laws of motion can proceed as if the reference frame was inertial, provided the fictitious force terms are included in the sum of external forces.

Thus he created one of the US armed forces ' first racially integrated bands, " The Wolfpack ".

Thus, although Scots were only 10 per cent of the British population, they made up 15 per cent of the national armed forces and eventually accounted for 20 per cent of the dead.

Thus, for instance, forces that act on particles are frequently derived from fields ( electromagnetic or gravitational ), and particles generate fields by acting as sources.

Thus, in 1329 after this Battle of Pelekanon the Byzantines gave up the idea of getting the Kocaeli lands back and never tried conducting a field battle against the Ottoman forces.

Thus, the establishment of Artillery, tailoring and the Armed forces Agricultural Units sit between these initiatives.

Thus, Electronic Support provides a source of information required for decisions involving Electronic Protection ( EP ), Electronic Attack ( EA ), avoidance, targeting, and other tactical employment of forces.

Thus fiscal federalism provides the tools for " application of the federal approach to governance which lies in its ability to balance the contrasting forces of centralization and decentralization " ( Sharma, 2005b: 177 ).

Thus, he planned to leave the city and retreat, in order to better take it back with more military forces.

He claimed that on top of individual exploitation, the capitalist also unjustly appropriates the additional value ( termed “ collective force ”) produced by co-operative activity as a “ force of one thousand men working twenty days has been paid the same wages that one would be paid for working fifty-five years ; but this force of one thousand has done in twenty days what a single man could not have accomplished, though he had laboured for a million centuries .” Thus the capitalist may have “ paid all the individual forces ” but “ the collective force still remains to be paid ” and which the capitalists “ enjoy unjustly .” Other notable anti-capitalist thinkers claim that the elite maintain wage slavery and a divided working class through their influence over the media and entertainment industry, educational institutions, unjust laws, nationalist and corporate propaganda, pressures and incentives to internalize values serviceable to the power structure, state violence, fear of unemployment and a historical legacy of exploitation and profit accumulation / transfer under prior systems, which shaped the development of economic theory:

" Thus the ego, driven by the id, confined by the super-ego, repulsed by reality, struggles ... bringing about harmony among the forces and influences working in and upon it ," and readily " breaks out in anxiety — realistic anxiety regarding the external world, moral anxiety regarding the super-ego, and neurotic anxiety regarding the strength of the passions in the id.

Thus, the post-medieval gentlemanly code of the value of a man's honor, respect for women, and a concern for those less fortunate, is directly derived from earlier ideals of chivalry and historical forces which created it.

Thus, rather than being formed from a trained, armed, and organised army, the Republican armed forces began to grow in September from usually younger, less trained groups built around charismatic leaders.

Thus, in 94 Anguo Chanyu joined forces with newly subjugated Xiongnu from the north and started a large scale rebellion against the Han.

Thus he developed and strongly supported " Vietnamization ", a program intended to expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U. S. combat troops.

Thus the Ottomans were prevented from supplying and reinforcing their land forces in Macedonia by sea, a critical factor in the success of the Balkan League in the war.

Thus, while the Carter Doctrine warned away outside forces from the region, the Reagan Corollary pledged to secure internal stability.

Thus, Colonel Claire Chennault became America's first military leader to be publicly recognized for striking a blow against the Japanese military forces.

Thus all of Rohan's forces would be focused in the west trying to stem the tide of the Isengard attack, and none would be sent to Minas Tirith's defence.