Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

Thus, Margenau remarks: `` A large number of unrelated epicycles was needed to explain the observations, but otherwise the ( Ptolemaic ) system served well and with quantitative precision.

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, when the Russians sent up their first sputnik, American chagrin was human enough, and American determination to put American satellites into orbit was perfectly understandable.

Thus, a finding of conspiracy to restrain trade or attempt to monopolize was excluded from the Court's decision.

Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.

Thus was invented the single thread sewing machine, which Mr. Gibbs in partnership with Mr. Willcox decided to bring to Brown & Sharpe with the proposal that the small company undertake its manufacture.

Thus it was that Barco, apprehended for mere larceny, now began to suspect that one or another of his murders had been uncovered.

Thus, the energy transferred from the arc to the anode was partly fed back into the arc.

Thus, the dotted line shown in figure 4 was taken as typical for the temperature distribution for all blowing rates.

Thus, the Span of its ossification was shortened and the center's ability to `` catch up '' in ossification is demonstrated.

Thus to has light stress both in that was the conclusion that I came to and in that was the conclusion I came to.

Thus the Congress marks a formal recognition of the political system that was central to world politics for a century.

Thus, in the immemorial way -- in the way of the right hand that knows and the left that does not -- was the stage set for tragedy at Bari.

Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.

Thus, when Dartmouth's Winter Carnival -- widely recognized as the greatest, wildest, roaringest college weekend anywhere, any time -- was broadcast over a national television hookup, Prexy John Sloan Dickey appeared on the screen in rugged winter garb, topped off by a tam-o'-shanter which he confessed had been acquired from a Smith girl.

Thus when Premier Khrushchev intimated even before inauguration that he hoped for an early meeting with the new President, Mr. Kennedy was confronted with a delicate problem.

Thus `` America '', the most widely sung of the patriotic songs, was written by a New England Baptist clergyman, Samuel Francis Smith ( 1808-1895 ), while a student in Andover Theological Seminary.

Thus, the Mahayana metaphysic of mystical union for salvation was distilled down to a bare self-seeking, and for this reason, the mystic in Asia did not long remain in isolated contemplation.

Thus there was really an excess of eighteenth-century charm as one of these light-weight pieces followed another on Saturday night.

Thus, the masculine animate infinitive dabhumaksanigalu'ahai, meaning to live, was, in the perfect tense, ksu'u'peli'afo, and, in the future, mai'teipa.

Thus, the planetary model of the atom was discarded in favor of one that described atomic orbital zones around the nucleus where a given electron is most likely to be observed.

Thus, only a limited number of individuals were hired as scribes to be trained in its use.

" Thus a servant was hired to help with the children as Pankhurst involved herself with the Women's Suffrage Society.

Thus Poirot answered the question Mr. Entwhistle hired him to resolve, as well as untangled, by deduction, the mystery of Cora's death.

Thus, the cumbersome job of translation was undertaken and ten pundits were hired to which an eleventh was added.

Thus, in 2001, Fame and Greene hired attorneys Oren Warshavsky and Steven Ames Brown through Artists Rights Enforcement Corporation.

Thus only a limited number of individuals were hired as scribes to be trained in its reading and writing.

Thus we are compelled to face the urbanization of the South -- an urbanization which, despite its dramatic and overwhelming effects upon the Southern culture, has been utterly ignored by the bulk of Southern writers.

Thus Faulkner reminds us, and wisely, that the `` new '' South has gradually evolved out of the Old South, and consequently its agrarian roots persist.

Thus, the avant-garde choreographers have extended the scope of materials available for dance composition.

Thus, there is freshness not only in the individual movements of the dance but in the shape of their continuity as well.

Thus, paradoxically, the beat writers resort to `` religious '' metaphors: they are in search of mana, the spiritual, the numinous, but not anything connected with formal religion.

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

Thus, on the highroad, a troop of soldiers `` marched in their own dust and sang '', while on the footpath one man walks alone.

Thus the image of man has suffered complete fragmentation in personal and spiritual qualities, and complete objectification in sub-human and quasi-mechanistic powers.

Thus the fictional detective is much more than a simple businessman.

Thus the transformation of Adam Smith's ideal entrepreneur into a mythological detective coincides closely with the decline of the real entrepreneur in economic life.

Thus the cocktail party would appear to be the ideal system, but there is one weakness.

Thus, if corporations are not to run away with us, they must become quasi-governmental institutions, subject to public control and needs.

Thus in both types attention is focused on the community itself, and its phenomenological life.

Thus, it is no mystical intuition, but an analyzable conception to say that man and his tradition can `` fall out of existence ''.

Thus human perception and human volition is the immanent cause of all social change and this most truly when the change reaches the civilizational level.

Thus with regard to the loss of tradition, in the change from order to disorder the metaphysics of change works itself out as a disruption of the individual soul, a change in which man continues as an objective ontological existent, but no longer as a man.

Thus, circular motion is itself one of the essential characteristics of completely perfect celestial existence.

Thus earth has fallen to the center of the universe.

Thus, in no ordinary sense of ' simplicity ' is the Ptolemaic theory simpler than the Copernican.

Thus he complains, with considerable justice, that the Tory writers have resorted to libel instead of answering his arguments.

Thus Burns's `` My love is like a red, red rose '' and Hopkins' `` The thunder-purple sea-beach, plumed purple of Thunder '' although clearly intelligible in content, hardly present ideas of the sort with which we are here concerned.

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 ideas like `` grace '', `` salvation '', and `` providence '' cluster together in traditional Christianity.