Thus while defenders argue that the three-prong test embodies the maxim that " opportunity drives interest ", critics argue that the three-prong test goes beyond Title IX original purpose of preventing discrimination, and instead amounts to an exercise in which athletic opportunities are taken away from male students and given to female students, despite the comparatively lower interest levels of those female students.

Thus, as Justice William Rehnquist explained in Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, “ The prohibition against discrimination based on sex was added to Title VII at the last minute on the floor of the House of Representatives ... the bill quickly passed as amended, and we are left with little legislative history to guide us in interpreting the Act ’ s prohibition against discrimination based on ‘ sex .’”

Thus, the efficiency **yt couplers is given by -- Af or approximately 50 percent each.

Thus the width of the plane within the top brittle crust of the Earth can become 50 to 100 km ( Tohoku, 2011 ; Alaska, 1964 ), making the most powerful earthquakes possible.

Thus began one of the most productive periods in Telemann's life: during his tenure at Eisenach he composed a wealth of instrumental music ( sonatas and concertos ), and numerous sacred works, which included four or five complete annual cycles of church cantatas, 50 German and Italian cantatas, and some 20 serenatas.

Thus, in the opinion of Richard Klein, the ability to produce complex speech only developed some 50, 000 years ago ( with the appearance of modern man or Cro-Magnon man ).

Thus, as an event marker of 1950s water in soil and ground water, < sup > 36 </ sup > Cl is also useful for dating waters less than 50 years before the present.

Thus, the urban development ( i. e., buildings ) is optimized to occupy less than 50 % of the total area, while the rest is reserved for open space, including the Vatican Gardens.

Thus, if a person owns 100 shares and the cash dividend is USD $ 0. 50 per share, the holder of the stock will be paid USD $ 50.

Thus a 1000-watt instrument at 50 percent power will emit a higher percentage of orange light than a 500-watt instrument operating at full power.

Thus, in the Brown Corpus of American English, about half of the 50, 000 words are hapax legomena within that corpus.

Thus, the incarcerated persons in the two prisons comprise just over 50 % of the total population of Corcoran.

Thus, in a market with two firms that each have 50 percent market share, the Herfindahl index equals

Thus, the station can be heard up and down the eastern coast of the United States at night, but despite its 50, 000 watt signal, it cannot be heard 20 miles to the southwest.

Thus we expect to observe 50 males.

Thus, no document remains classified for more than 50 years.

Thus the three-phase system transmits 73 % more power but uses only 50 % more wire.

Thus, 50 cent coins of 1840 to 1852 were worth 53 cents if melted down.

Thus, though common muzzle-loading hunting rifles are available in calibers over 0. 50 ", they are not regulated as destructive devices.

Thus, there can be at most 50 sectoral representatives in Congress, though usually no more than 20 are elected because many organizations do not reach the required 2 % minimum number of votes.

Thus, they declare the Second Foundation destroyed after finding the roughly 50 mentalist agents on Terminus, and are content to forget the matter.

Thus the MSE results from pooling all these sources of error, geometrically corresponding to radius of a circle within which 50 % of rounds will land.

Thus the differential collector current signal is converted to a single ended voltage signal without the intrinsic 50 % losses and the gain is extremely increased.

Thus 24-carat gold means 100 % pure, 12-carat gold means the alloy contains 50 % gold, etc.

Thus the story should attract 50 Shades of Grey fans.

Thus, the Navajo Nation's census figures for Kayenta Chapter are significantly different from those of Kayenta proper.

Gongyo entails chanting Chapter 2 ( Expedient Means ) and Chapter 16 ( Life Span of the Thus Come One ) of the Lotus Sutra and chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo to the Gohonzon, while focusing on the Chinese character 妙 myō ( Eng.

Servetus sent Calvin several more letters, to which Calvin took offense .< ref > Will Durant < cite > The Story of Civilization: The Reformation </ cite > Chapter XXI, page 481 </ ref > Thus, Calvin's antagonism against Servetus seems to have been based not simply on his views but also on Servetus's tone, which he considered inappropriate.

As he writes in his English adaptation Sound and Symbol in Chinese ( 1923 ), Chapter I: " Thus, though Chinese traditions give no hint whatever of an immigration from any foreign country, and though there consequently is no external chronological point d ' appui, we are nonetheless able to state, from internal evidence, that the Chinese tradition which places the reign of the emperor Yao in the twenty-fourth century B. C.

The Secondary Practice is to chant Chapter 2 ( Expedient Means ) and Chapter 16 ( Life Span of the Thus Come One ) of the Lotus Sutra, or any other chapter of The Lotus Sutra or the complete Sutra.

Thus, Chapter XIII of the Charter is no longer relevant, and can be deleted.

Thus, the means test is " a formula designed to keep filers with higher incomes from filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

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

Thus #, $ and % were placed to correspond to 3, 4, and 5 in the adjacent column.

Thus, at pH between 2. 2 and 9. 4, the predominant form adopted by α-amino acids contains a negative carboxylate and a positive α-ammonium group, as shown in structure ( 2 ) on the right, so has net zero charge.

Thus numbers like 2 and 120 ( 2 × 60 ), 3 and 180 ( 3 × 60 ), 4 and 240 ( 4 × 60 ), looked the same because the larger numbers lacked a final sexagesimal placeholder.

Thus, if a two-dimensional array has rows and columns indexed from 1 to 10 and 1 to 20, respectively, then replacing B by B + c < sub > 1 </ sub >-− 3 c < sub > 1 </ sub > will cause them to be renumbered from 0 through 9 and 4 through 23, respectively.

Thus, after a bid of 3, bids of 2 or 3 are not sufficient, but 3 or 4 are.

Thus, if the score was 3 – 2 with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth, and the batter smacked an " over the fence home run ", the game would end at 4 – 3, with the batter only allowed a double, and the runners officially stopped on 2nd and 3rd ( since they were not needed to win the game ).

Thus, in Zoroaster's revelation, Ahura Mazda was perceived to be the creator of only the good ( Yasna 31. 4 ), the " supreme benevolent providence " ( Yasna 43. 11 ), that will ultimately triumph ( Yasna 48. 1 ).

Thus in some cases a single entity can essentially maintain controlling interest with only 33. 4 % of the outstanding shares.

Thus, would contain 3 moieties ( 2 Na < sup >+</ sup > and one SO < sub > 4 </ sub >< sup > 2 -</ sup >).

Thus an hour was 144 conventional minutes ( more than twice as long as a conventional hour ), a minute was 86. 4 conventional seconds ( 44 % longer than a conventional minute ), and a second was 0. 864 conventional seconds ( 13. 6 % shorter than a conventional second ).

Thus IPv4 provides an addressing capability of 2 < sup > 32 </ sup > or approximately 4. 3 billion addresses.

Thus, in the cases listed above, the disjunction of and is true in all cases except 4.

Thus, Malaysia's population consists of 60. 4 % Muslims, 6. 4 % of Hindus and 9. 1 % of Christians ; the respective figures for Mauritius are 16. 6 %, 52 % and 30 %.

Thus a vacuum of 26 inHg gauge is equivalent to an absolute pressure of 30 inHg ( typical atmospheric pressure ) − 26 inHg = 4 inHg.

The narrator relates two facts: ( 1 ) Noah became inebriated when he “ uncovered himself within his tent ” and ( 2 ) Ham “ saw his father ’ s nakedness .” Thus, these passages revolve around sexuality and the exposure of genitalia as compared with other Hebrew bible texts, such as Habakkuk 2: 15 and Lamentations 4: 21.

Thus, six objects may be divided into piles of 5 + 1 or 4 + 2, but not 3 + 3.

Thus 4, 000, 000, which has a logarithm ( in base 10 ) of 6. 602, has 7 as its nearest order of magnitude, because " nearest " implies rounding rather than truncation.

Thus Reversi can start with either a parallel or diagonal layout of the first 4 pieces.

Thus, 1NT – 2 ; 2 – 2 shows 4 spades and 1NT – 2 ; 2 – 2, shows 4 hearts.

Thus, a cap of 13 million tons could be credited to Japan ( which represents about 4 % of its base-year emissions ).

Thus, 3 + ( 6 * 4 ) is 27 which is exactly the number in a 3 x 3 x 3 larger cube.