Thus, a child's Skeletal Age `` dots '' may be classified as `` advanced '' when they appear above the middle curve, `` moderate '' when they appear immediately above or below the middle curve, and `` delayed '' when they appear below the lower curve.

Thus, the white middle and lower classes are arrayed against the Negro middle and lower classes.

Thus while Persian-speakers were concentrated on the lower rungs of the work force, managers tended to be brought in from some distance.

Thus Lewis and Clark had first to travel the lower Missouri to the Mandan country in North Dakota.

Thus lower cost liquid lubricants may be used.

Thus enhanced electrotonic coupling results in lower tonic activity of the coupled cells while increasing rhythmicity.

Thus, for example, MOVEI A, 3 ( C ) adds 3 to the 18 lower bits of register C and puts the result in register A, without touching memory.

Thus, when these stars expand and cool, they do not brighten as much as lower mass stars ; however, they were much brighter than lower mass stars to begin with, and are thus still brighter than the red giants formed from less massive stars.

" Thus, a lesion at the T8 level will produce pain radiating from the spine laterally along the lower costal margins.

Thus in strong alkali at high pH, it forms the dually charged full urate ion, but at biological pH or in the presence of carbonic acid or carbonate ions, it forms the singly charged hydrogen or acid urate ion as its pKa < sub > 1 </ sub > is lower than the pKa < sub > 1 </ sub > of carbonic acid.

Thus, reducing the current by a factor of 2 will lower the energy lost to conductor resistance by a factor of 4.

Thus, if in this example the composer actually wanted the note a semitone lower than G-natural, he might put first a natural sign to cancel the previous G-sharp, then the flat.

Thus, any exciting frequency lower than the cutoff frequency will attenuate, rather than propagate.

Thus it was the preferred choice of that era for a high-speed backbone, but FDDI has since been effectively obsolesced by fast Ethernet which offered the same 100 Mbit / s speeds, but at a much lower cost and, since 1998, by Gigabit Ethernet due to its speed, and even lower cost, and ubiquity.

Thus range encoding can achieve greater compression ratios than the one-bit-per-symbol lower bound on Huffman encoding and it does not suffer the inefficiencies that Huffman does when dealing with probabilities that are not exact powers of two.

Thus the two justices would have adjudicated the case and upheld the lower court opinion striking down the ban on corporate and union spending.

Thus, the Maasai, according to their own oral history, migrated south from the lower Nile valley north of Lake Turkana in about the 15th century, arriving in a long trunk of land stretching from what is now northern Kenya to what is now central Tanzania during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Thus when there is a wide temperature differential between the hot and cold reservoirs, the COP is lower ( worse ).

Thus, Barbadian manufacturers must compete with those from other regional economies, whose wage costs and other overheads are usually much lower.

Thus, it was explained by the early 1950s that Kryptonians were powerless on their own planet, and would gain super powers only within a lower gravity environment.

Thus, according to the standard quantum-theoretic viewpoint, none of this energy can be withdrawn without altering the system to a different form in which the system has a lower zero-point energy.

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 a sweet pepper or a bell pepper, containing no capsaicin at all, has a Scoville rating of zero, meaning no heat detectable.

Thus over the 250 years ( approximately ) that the rating system of the Royal Navy held sway, only a relatively small number of first rates saw service.

Thus, many have resigned themselves that this debate will never be settled and, while nominal horsepower gives a very appropriate way of rating traction engine, it may never be converted accurately into diesel HP.

Thus, a senior chief petty officer with the rating of machinist's mate would properly be called a senior chief machinist's mate, the abbreviation of which is MMCS.

Thus, a petty officer third class who has the rating of fire control technician is called a fire control technician third class.

Thus, a petty officer second class, who has the rating of interior communications electrician would properly be called an interior communications electrician second class.

Thus, a petty officer, first class, who has the rating of electronics technician would properly be called an electronics technician petty officer, first class, or ET1.

Thus, part of the regulatory authority was abdicated in favor of private rating agencies.

Thus it is possible to have a player with a USCF rating of 2100 ( or below ) who is a Life Master.

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 the member of an industrial union comes to regard his officers as business agents who may proceed without interference or recall ; ;

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, as a development program is being launched, commitments and obligations must be entered into in a given year which may exceed by twofold or threefold the expenditures to be made in that year.

Thus he may be referring to some concrete thing, or incident, in his immediate environment by some symbolic-sounding, hyperbolic reference to transcendental events on the global scene.

Thus in Mary wrote an account of the trip first strong stress on Mary marks Mary as the first in a series of people who wrote accounts of the trip, strong stress on wrote marks the writing as the first of a series of actions of Mary's concerned with an account of her trip ( about which she may later have made speeches, for example ), and strong stress on trip makes the trip the first of a series of subjects about which Mary wrote accounts.

Thus while his theory or technique may not be oversubscribed, it is commonplace for bullish and bearish positions to become temporarily over-subscribed.

Thus, if public pressure sets the effective limit to the price that the industry may charge, this pressure is itself a function of the wage rate.

Thus, when specifically permitted, the operand of a given line on the Autocoder coding sheet may be continued in the operand of from one to four additional lines which immediately follow.

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 man who is butting a stone wall at the office may become unusually aggressive in bed -- the one place he can still be champion.

Thus he will be in a position to disabuse the Soviet leader of any notions he may have about grave Allied disunity.

Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.

Thus, giving grades and promotions based only on an individual's performance relative to a small local group, as is common, may reduce cooperative behaviors in the group.

Thus, while altruistic persons may under some circumstances be outcompeted by less altruistic persons at the individual level, according to group selection theory the opposite may occur at the group level where groups consisting of the more altruistic persons may outcompete groups consisting of the less altruistic persons.

Thus, although some things may be certain, they have little to do with Dasein's sense of care and existential anxiety, e. g., in the face of death.

Thus, a court officer taking possession of goods under a court order may use force if reasonably necessary.

Thus, a gene for antibiotic resistance that evolves via natural selection may be shared.

This latter construal is sometimes expressed by saying " there is no fact of the matter as to whether or not P ." Thus, we may speak of anti-realism with respect to other minds, the past, the future, universals, mathematical entities ( such as natural numbers ), moral categories, the material world, or even thought.

Thus it may be roughly translated as " protector of man ".

Thus, three eclipse calculations may be evidence for the suggestion that Romulus reigned from 746 BC to 709 BC, and Rome was founded during 745 BC.

Thus if the instrument depends on the pressure or suction effect alone, and this pressure or suction is measured against the air pressure in an ordinary room, in which the doors and windows are carefully closed and a newspaper is then burnt up the chimney, an effect may be produced equal to a wind of 10 mi / h ( 16 km / h ); and the opening of a window in rough weather, or the opening of a door, may entirely alter the registration.