Thus military expeditions employ anthropologists to discern strategic cultural footholds ; marketing professionals employ anthropology to determine propitious placement of advertising ; and humanitarian agencies depend on anthropological insights as means to fight poverty.

Thus far the only people who have been attested with a high level of genetic, historical, linguistic and cultural research to be the descendants of the ancient Mesopotamians are the Assyrian Christians of Iraq and its surrounding areas in north west Iran, north east Syria and south eastern Turkey.

Thus, Latin grew from a highly developed cultural product of the Golden and Silver eras of Latin literature to become the international lingua franca in matters diplomatic, scientific, philosophic and religious, until the 17th century.

Thus, until the 15th century, only minor trade and cultural exchanges between Europe and Asia continued at certain terminals controlled by Muslim traders.

Thus there are things which may act as signs without any respect to the human agent ( the things of the external world, all sorts of indications, evidences, symptoms, and physical signals ), there are signs which are always signs ( the entities of the mind as ideas and images, thoughts and feelings, constructs and intentions ); and there are signs that have to get their signification ( as linguistic entities and cultural symbols ).

Thus, over time, it is possible for non-Vedda groups to become Veddas, in this broad cultural sense.

Thus, knowledge about cultural norms is important for impressions, which is an individual's regulation of their nonverbal behavior.

Thus, it is not correct to establish a strict common origin, but a common cultural identity.

Thus, from an early stage in its history, when used as a label for various groups of people, the term " Latin " has had purely legal and cultural meanings, not ethnic.

Thus, Boas ' student Melville Herskovits summed up the principle of cultural relativism thus: " Judgements are based on experience, and experience is interpreted by each individual in terms of his own enculturation.

Thus, people came to use the phrase " cultural relativism " erroneously to signify " moral relativism.

Thus, cultural relativism came under attack, but from opposing sides and for opposing reasons.

Thus, Stanley Diamond argued that when the term " cultural relativism " entered popular culture, popular culture coopted anthropology in a way that voided the principle of any critical function:

Thus from then on until 1635, Inner Mongolia was the political and cultural center of the Mongols during the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

Thus biography can form one part of the larger study of the cultural significance, underlying program, or agenda of a work ; a study which gained increasing importance in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Thus, cultural studies seeks to understand the ways in which meaning is generated, disseminated, and produced through various practices, beliefs and institutions.

Thus, the key rubric for Gramsci and for cultural studies is that of cultural hegemony.

Thus, written records tend to reflect the biases, assumptions, cultural values and possibly deceptions of a limited range of individuals, usually only a fraction of the larger population.

Thus the study of racism can be seen, at least superficially, as the study of the ways that people with a certain skin color and cultural background are systematically mistreated by society at large.

Thus, a " more accessible " object for nostalgia was a " secondary silver age within the last few hundred years "— the Kingdom of Romania's 19th century cultural renaissance.

Thus, traditional societies, historical societies, religious societies, either in the East or in the West ( be they tribal, Bedouin, civilized Muslim or non-Muslim societies, in whatever social or cultural stage of civilization they may be ) have all been directly or indirectly influenced by these thoughts, intellectual currents and even new social realities.

Thus one should be able to virtually completely reconstruct these " cultural processes.

Thus psychological and cultural mechanisms are implied as unvarying differences in jealousy that play a role in sexual attachment.

Thus, instead of an anarchic international system, there are plenty of opportunities for cooperation and broader notions of power, such as cultural capital ( for example, the influence of films leading to the popularity of the country's culture and creating a market for its exports worldwide ).

Thus ending the schism.

Thus, says the UPCI, divisions over Christology caused this schism.

Thus, the schism deepened now along political Lombard-Roman lines.

Thus, the New Catholic Encyclopedia argues that the dispute need not have produced a permanent schism any more than excommunication of any " contumacious bishop.

Thus the schism had become definite.

Thus, as not all can be satisfied with the results, The Council of Chalcedon resulted in a schism with the Oriental Orthodox Church.

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.