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.

According to the Christian doctrine of Universal Reconciliation, the Greek New Testament scriptures use the word " eon " to mean a long period ( perhaps 1000 years ) and the word " eonian " to mean " during a long period "; Thus there was a time before the eons, and the eonian period is finite.

Thus short-handed, Kidd sailed for New York City, capturing a French vessel en route ( which was legal under the terms of his commission ).

" Thus, by the 4th century, there existed unanimity in the West concerning the New Testament canon, and by the 5th century the East, with a few exceptions, had come to accept the Book of Revelation and thus had come into harmony on the matter of the canon.

Thus many admirers ( though not necessarily Brahms himself ) saw him as the champion of traditional forms and " pure music ", as opposed to the " New German " embrace of programme music.

Thus, on April 28, 2006, after the unofficial repeal of the French First Employment Contract ( CPE ), the Longjumeau ( Essonne ) conseil des prud ' hommes ( labour law court ) judged the New Employment Contract ( CNE ) contrary to international law, and therefore " illegitimate " and " without any juridical value ".

Thus the British Navy captured New Amsterdam ( New York ) in 1664.

Thus, while there was a good measure of debate in the Early Church over the New Testament canon, the major writings are claimed to have been accepted by almost all Christians by the middle of the 3rd century.

Thus, some claim that, from the 4th century, there existed unanimity in the West concerning the New Testament canon ( as it is today ), and that, by the 5th century, the Eastern Church, with a few exceptions, had come to accept the Book of Revelation and thus had come into harmony on the matter of the canon.

Thus, on November 28, 1821, the national assembly was convened and it was officially declared ( through Fábrega, who was invested with the title of Head of State of Panama ) that the isthmus of Panama had severed its ties with the Spanish Empire and its decision to join New Granada and Venezuela in Bolivar's recently founded Republic of Colombia.

Thus many of the species that occur in Tristan da Cunha appear as far away as New Zealand.

Thus, the Court struck down a law decreeing maximum hours for workers in a bakery in Lochner v. New York ( 1905 ) and struck down a minimum wage law in Adkins v. Children's Hospital ( 1923 ).

Thus distant suppliers can be cheaper than local sources ( e. g., New York City buys a lot of electricity from Canada ).

Thus " Saturday Night " has come to imply the party scene, and has lent its name to the films Saturday Night Fever, which showcased New York discotheques, Uptown Saturday Night, as well as many songs ( see below ).

Thus in 1949, when the rest of the Dutch East Indies became fully independent as Indonesia, the Dutch retained sovereignty over western New Guinea, and took steps to prepare it for independence as a separate country.

Thus, for Bevan, joining Mosley's New Party was not an option.

Thus Palpatine's New Order was finally brought to an end after 157 years of imperialism which opposed to his 10, 000 year rule that he had promised at its formation.

Thus began the Press's tradition of publishing the Bible, a tradition that has endured for over four centuries, beginning with the Geneva Bible, and continuing with the Authorized Version, the Revised Version, the New English Bible and the Revised English Bible.

Thus, New Jersey has a law which makes it a “ disorderly persons offense ” to knowingly to engage in the unauthorized practice of law, and a “ crime in the fourth degree ” to commit UPL if one ( a ) creates a false impression that one is a lawyer ; ( b ) derives a benefit from UPL, or ( c ) causes an injury by UPL.

Thus, the darkest evening occurs in early to mid-December, but the mornings keep getting darker until about the New Year.

Thus the Delaware Memorial Bridge was built as an intrastate span by Delaware, without financial participation by neighboring New Jersey.

Thus, for that season, a team from Buffalo, New York nominally represented Buffalo, Texas in the NFL.

Thus Parliament disallowed religious toleration and voted to disband the New Model Army, but the New Model Army refused the order.

Thus many opponents of what they saw as racism in New Zealand in the early 1980s saw it as useful to use the protests against South Africa as a vehicle for wider social action.

Thus New Zealand is now an independent kingdom where the sovereign reigns no longer as the British Monarch, but as the Monarch of New Zealand.

Thus, a critical majority of voters preferred Robert Muldoon's National Party of New Zealand, who promised to create many more jobs by borrowing foreign funds to build large infrastructural projects ( the so-called " Think Big " strategy developing oil, gas, coal and electricity resources ).

Thus, it is illegal to invest in Textron in Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Lebanon, Malta, Mexico, Norway, and Rwanda.

Thus a foal conceived in New Zealand but foaled in Australian is regarded as being bred in Australia.

Thus, for the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal, which was created by a Royal Warrant from the Queen, 30, 000 were distributed in Britain, 1, 507 in New Zealand, 6, 870 in Australia, and 30, 000 in Canada.

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, even when reception was effected by a constitution, the common law was still subject to alteration by a legislature's statute.

Thus, to be valid, any law must conform to natural law and coercing people to conform to that law is morally acceptable.

Thus in Austinian terms a moral code can objectively determine what people ought to do, the law can embody whatever norms the legislature decrees to achieve social utility, but every individual remains free to choose what to do.

Thus the necessary and sufficient conditions for the truth of a proposition of law simply involved internal logic and consistency, and that the state's agents used state power with responsibility.

Thus criminal law grew out what 21st-century lawyers would call torts ; and, in real terms, many acts and omissions classified as crimes actually overlap with civil-law concepts.

Thus, the law of " interpenetrating opposites " records the inextricable interdependence of components: the " transformation of quantity to quality " defends a systems-based view of change that translates incremental inputs into alterations of state ; and the " negation of negation " describes the direction given to history because complex systems cannot revert exactly to previous states.

Thus, Egypt was by Ottoman law de jure a province of that empire, but de facto was part of the British Empire.

Thus, this law can be applied to generate a magnetic field and run an electric motor.

Thus, the total of entropy of the room plus the entropy of the environment increases, in agreement with the second law of thermodynamics.

Thus, if there is no alternate rationale for prosecuting some people more harshly for the same crime based on who the victim is, then different defendants are treated unequally under the law, which violates the United States Constitution.

Thus Jahangir was able to deliver justice to people in accordance of their beliefs, and also keep his hold on empire by unified criminal law.

Thus, law has an internal morality that goes beyond the social rules by which valid laws are made.

But this group found it increasingly difficult to prove that they were not labourers because the 1882 act defined excludables as ‘ skilled and unskilled labourers and Chinese employed in mining .’ Thus very few Chinese could enter the country under the 1882 law.

Thus the Syrian Mandate provided that the government should be based on an organic law which should take into account the rights, interests and wishes of all the inhabitants, and that measures should be enacted “ to facilitate the progressive development of Syria and the Lebanon as independent States ”.

Thus in the absence of the minimum wage law unskilled workers would be paid approximately the same amount.

Thus in theory, if law enforcement officials decline to offer a Miranda warning to an individual in their custody, they may still interrogate that person and act upon the knowledge gained, but may not use that person's statements to incriminate him or her in a criminal trial.

Thus the court accepted that a modified doctrine of tenure operated in Australia, and that the law of tenure ( as a product of the common law ) could co-exist with the law of native title ( as a product of customary laws and traditions ), though where there had been a valid grant of fee simple by the Crown the latter title would be extinguished.

Thus prosecutions have been possible of such individuals as Nazi war criminals and officials of the German Democratic Republic responsible for the Berlin Wall, even though their deeds may have been allowed or even ordered by domestic law.