Thus, a player should use Blackwood only when he can ascertain that the partnership holds at least second-round controls in all suits ( kings or, if a suit fit is found, singletons ).

Thus, a Blackwood query by the player holding two quick losers in a side suit is a wild gamble, as it is still possible that the suit is not controlled by an Ace or a King.

Thus, while D-Cinema is a defined standard, though one that is still partly being framed by SMPTE as of 2007, E-Cinema may be anything, ranging from a DVD player connected to a consumer projector to something that approaches the quality of D-Cinema without conforming to some of the standards.

Thus the actual mathematics of mathematical games may not be apparent to the average player.

Thus, a player who bids three and takes either two or four tricks will lose one point.

" Thus, sabermetrics attempts to answer objective questions about baseball, such as " which player on the Red Sox contributed the most to the team's offense?

Thus a transition between positions can never result in a better evaluation for the moving player and a perfect move in a position would be a transition between positions that are equally evaluated.

Thus, if the player went far out of play, he was in the " popcorn machine.

Thus the time control " 20 minutes + 15 minutes byoyomi " on IGS means that after the initial 20 minutes of thinking time are over, a player is granted 15 additional minutes, which may be spent however he chooses.

Thus if a player thinks for eight seconds before making his first move, he will have five minutes and four seconds on his clock after making it.

Thus, other equipment, such as a VCR, DVD player, or video game console, which wishes to send a signal to such an old TV must replicate this process, in effect " faking " an over-the-air signal.

Thus, Patxi Ferreira from Salamanca and Biurrun, a Brazilian-born player who immigrated to the region at a young age, played for the club in the late 1980s.

Thus, the pitcher ( or pitchers ) cannot allow any hits, walks, hit batsmen, or any opposing player to reach base safely for any other reason: in short, " 27 up, 27 down ".

Thus, the player ’ s score is directly tied to the amount of time he has to play the game.

Thus, one player may open with a bid of 15 turns, the other player may counter with a bid of 14 turns, and the first player, more confident in his ability to escape in 13 rounds than in his ability to contain for 14, may bid 13 and take the king's side.

Thus, as the player character strengthens from gaining experience, they are encouraged to accept tasks that are commensurate with their improved abilities in order to advance.

Thus the three notes ( E, C and A ) are played in quick succession at relative ease to the player.

Thus when a team is down to a single player and the single player camps, team members may announce his location to the opposing team.

) 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, Victor and Columbia began making flat records in America, with UK Gramophone and others continuing to do so outside America, leaving Edison as the only major player in the making of cylinders ( Columbia still made a limited number for a few years ), and Emile Berliner, the inventor of flat records, out of the business.

Thus, if a player discards a club and two diamonds, they have bid 3 + 0 + 0 = 3 tricks.

Thus all differences were leveled, and all contrasts erased, in a realm of no distinction, and the harmonious balance of the Lo Shu square could effectively symbolize the world in balanced harmony around a powerful central axis.

Thus, the emperor could draw on sources not available to those with less puissant ancestors.

Thus he maintained that there must be blackness as well as whiteness in snow ; how otherwise could it be turned into dark water?

Thus, the above conditions could be re-written as follows:

Thus, services could be moved to a different machine and, so long as they kept the same service name, there was no need for users to do anything different to continue accessing the service.

Thus they could be used in place of the more expensive Athlon MP in dual socket A motherboards.

Thus, the new charter changed the manner in which the military could exercise its moderating power.

Thus, small minority parties cannot easily enter the Bundestag and prevent the formation of stable majority governments as they could under the Weimar constitution.

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 the view from Whitehall early in 1916: If defeat was not imminent, neither was victory ; and the outcome of the war of attrition on the Western Front could not be predicted.

Thus, only the immediate purchaser could recover for a product defect, and if a part was built up out of parts from parts manufacturers, the ultimate buyer could not recover for injury caused by a defect in the part.

Thus, Confucius could not achieve the idealistic reform that he wanted and restore the legitimate rule of the duke, returning to the period of the Duke of Zhou.

Thus, a catalyst that could change the equilibrium would be a perpetual motion machine, a contradiction to the laws of thermodynamics.

Thus a construction of the following type could conceivably arise: " It nearly knocked me off me plates — he was wearing a syrup!

Thus, in Wilson v. U. S. ( 1911 ), he asserted that corporate officers could not resist a subpoena for company records by invoking the Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination.

Thus, in the event of their death, their estate could pass to a competent heir.

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

Thus, an emissary to the Ottoman Empire could expect to be arrested and imprisoned upon the outbreak of hostilities between their State and the empire.

Thus, SETE could not claim copyright on photographs or panoramas of Paris incorporating the lit tower.

Thus, churches actually had money-changing tables at which each coin would be examined separately and a token of actual worth given to the layperson so that he or she could be seen by the other parishioners as putting money in the basket during that part of the service.

Thus, the Audion could not only detect and amplify radio signals, it could transmit them as well.

Thus, since the 19th century many historical Jesus scholars have argued that only one of the two traditions could be authentic.