Thus, in both a military and an economic sense, MIRVs render ABM systems less effective, as the costs of maintaining a workable defense against MIRVs would greatly increase, requiring multiple defensive missiles for each offensive one.

Thus, Brutus and Cassius could seize a strong defensive position holding the high ground along both sides of the via Egnatia, about 3. 5 km west of the city of Philippi.

Thus, when the action began and became a defensive rather than an offensive battle for the Russians, their heavy preponderance in artillery was wasted on a right wing that would never be attacked, while the French artillery did much to help win the battle.

Thus, there were three such Flex Defenses — strong, weak, and " tackle " — where both defensive tackles were off the line of scrimmage.

Thus the defensive line could be relatively thin because the bulk of the fighting power of the defenders was not concentrated in the line itself but rather in the mobile reserves.

) Thus, turtling offers great short-term defensive advantage but cedes the initiative ; it can be seen as a suicidal or desperation tactic, or a hallmark of an inexperienced player.

Thus, it's important for the coach to ensure all players get chances to play those positions. In t-ball, the pitcher is usually used for defensive purposes only.

Thus his incentive to construe the divine eradication of Satanic material as a purposeful, even constructive, activity, rather than a wholly reactive and defensive one.

Thus the Qur ' an justified defensive jihad by allowing Muslims to fight back against hostile and dangerous forces.

Thus defensive jihad can occur in the absence of a Caliph.

Thus the Ottomans were enabled to re-group and took new defensive positions along the Lule Burgas-Bunar Hisar line.

Thus forts evolved complex shapes that allowed defensive batteries of cannons to command interlocking fields of fire.

Thus, throughout January, February and into March the battalion undertook defensive duties, before being withdrawn from the line in mid-March.

Thus creativity may run all the way from making a cake, building a chicken coop, or producing a book, to founding a business, creating a League of Nations or, developing a mature character.

Thus, a well-planned adobe wall of the appropriate thickness is very effective at controlling inside temperature through the wide daily fluctuations typical of desert climates, a factor which has contributed to its longevity as a building material.

Thus the Bauhaus style, also known as the International Style, was marked by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of an object or a building and its design.

Thus permanent building societies quickly became mortgage banks and in such institutions there always existed a conflict of interest between borrowers and savers.

Thus, according to the Bank of England's Boxall and Gallagher ( 1997 ), "... there was virtually no difference between banks and building society ' listed ' interest rates for home finance mortgage lending between 1984 and 1997.

Thus, computing includes designing and building hardware and software systems for a wide range of purposes ; processing, structuring, and managing various kinds of information ; doing scientific studies using computers ; making computer systems behave intelligently ; creating and using communications and entertainment media ; finding and gathering information relevant to any particular purpose, and so on.

Thus made invisible, he appears to have entered the building as Clark Kent and exited seconds later as Superman.

Thus simple machines are considered to be the " building blocks " of more complicated machines.

Thus the long and exciting discussion touching the removal of Williams College and the location of a college in some more central town of old Hampshire County at length came to an end, and the contending parties now directed all their energies to building up the institutions of their choice.

Thus an acetal resin water pipe joint suddenly failed and caused substantial damages to a building in which it was situated.

Thus, Machiavelli summarizes that guarding against the people ’ s hatred is more important than building up a reputation for generosity.

Thus Rothko ’ s design of the building and the religious implications of the paintings were inspired by Roman Catholic art and architecture.

" Thus, a small company in a single building can have an " intranet ," but to have a VPN, they would need to provide tunneled access to that network for geographically distributed employees.

Thus, later analog synthesizers used the same building blocks, but integrated them into single units, eliminating patch cords in favour of integrated signal routing systems.

Thus, it appears that the move toward heavier framing, a trend that dominates the history of the piano, had already begun in Cristofori's own building practice.

Thus hof or " court " can become transferred to the building itself.

Thus, for instance a product certification mark for a fire door or for a spray fireproofing product, does not signify its universal acceptance for use within a building.

Thus lot of Nannayya's time was gone in building a scaffold for the great activity.

Thus, the crane ' grew ' and ' wandered ' with the building with the result that today all extant construction cranes in England are found in church towers above the vaulting and below the roof, where they remained after building construction for bringing material for repairs aloft.

Thus, it rather appears as if the divergence of the Lesser Whitethroat complex and its closest living relatives is more ancient than assumed, and that it did not involve separation by ice sheets building up in Europe, but by aridification of the Arabian region ( which also occurred throughout the Ice Ages ).

Thus a turnstile can be used in the case of paid access ( sometimes called a faregate when used for this purpose ), for example public transport as a ticket barrier or a pay toilet, or to restrict access to authorized people, for example in the lobby of an office building.

Thus, although Buzău's name is attested by documents as a river with a polis on its banks, since the 4th century, and as a market town since 1431, the oldest building in the city is the Vergu-Mănăilă house, erected as recently as the 18th century, around 1780.

Thus the constitution's preamble said that " socialism has won in our country " and so " finishing the socialist construction, we are changing over to building an advanced socialist society and gathering strength for the transition to communism.

Thus the copywriter in the world of the space merchants is the person who in earlier ages might have been a lyric poet, the person `` capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing ''.

Thus, we might provide limited assistance in such fields as education, essential transport, communications, and agricultural improvement despite the absence of acceptable country programs.

Thus committed, action might follow.

Thus, food so processed might reach more remote markets and permit the consumer to enjoy more produce at peak freshness and palatability.

Thus, a Rabbi, a Catholic priest, and an agnostic might agree that, in this particular case, the best approach is to withhold extraordinary medical care, while disagreeing on the reasons that support their individual positions.

Thus, what might be " readily achievable " for a sophisticated and financially capable corporation might not be readily achievable for a small or local business.

Thus, if every historian were to claim that there was a solar eclipse in the year 1600, then though we might at first naively regard that as in violation of natural laws, we'd come to accept it as a fact.

Thus aesthetic judgments might be seen to be based on the senses, emotions, intellectual opinions, will, desires, culture, preferences, values, subconscious behavior, conscious decision, training, instinct, sociological institutions, or some complex combination of these, depending on exactly which theory one employs.

Thus something as simple as a newspaper might be specified to six levels, as in Douglas Hofstadter's illustration of that ambiguity, with a progression from abstract to concrete in Gödel, Escher, Bach ( 1979 ):

Thus, an outdoors utility knife suited for camping or hunting might use a broad three to five-inch fixed blade, while a utility knife designed for the construction industry might feature a replaceable utility or razor blade for cutting packaging, cutting shingles, marking cut lines, or scraping paint.

Thus only the target might be affected adversely.

Thus, in the Hindu schools, if a claim was made that could not be substantiated by appeal to the textual canon, it would be considered as ridiculous as a claim that the sky was green and, conversely, a claim which could not be substantiated via conventional means might still be justified through textual reference, differentiating this from the epistemology of modern science.

Thus linguists must resort to indirect methods to determine what those rules might be, if indeed rules as such exist.

Thus, in an agent-focused account, such as one that Peter Railton outlines, the actor might be concerned with the general welfare, but the actor is more concerned with the immediate welfare of herself and her friends and family.

Thus, one might pursue an increase in material equality or political liberty instead of something like the more ephemeral " pleasure ".

Thus, for example, on the basis of superficial similarities one might suppose that the Latin verb habere and German haben, both meaning ' to have ', were cognates.

Thus Post in his 1936 was also discounting Kurt Gödel's suggestion to Church in 1934 – 5 that the thesis might be expressed as an axiom or set of axioms.

" Thus, Poole's critique might better be understood as aimed at Calef, Mather's contemporary, who saw fit to ascribe to him, and his influence, the largest portion of blame.

Thus, it might be used to challenge the sharp distinction made in U. S. v. E. C. Knight ( 1895 ) between commerce, which was subject to federal regulation, and manufacturing, which was not.

Thus, doublespeak might have theories that have parallels with these theories and could possibly help us to understand the theories underlying doublespeak better.

Thus Bolesław the Brave might have received Kraków as his part of his father's legacy before the Dagome iudex had been written.

Thus, one might pursue an increase in material equality or political liberty instead of something like the more ephemeral " pleasure ".

Thus, while a permit to fill non-federal wetlands might require a permit from a single state agency, larger and more complex endeavors — for example, the construction of a coal-fired power plant — might require approvals from numerous federal and state agencies.