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 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, for example, controversies in physics are limited to subject-areas where experiments cannot be carried out yet, whereas Benford's Law implies that controversy is inherent to politics, where communities must frequently decide on courses of action based on insufficient information.

Thus the record and array data structures are based on computing the addresses of data items with arithmetic operations ; while the linked data structures are based on storing addresses of data items within the structure itself.

Thus, an applicant must prove discrimination in the enjoyment of a specific right that is guaranteed elsewhere in the Convention ( e. g. discrimination based on sex-Article 14-in the enjoyment of the right to freedom of expression-Article 10 ).

Thus the aim developed, to provide a new time scale for astronomical and scientific purposes, to avoid the unpredictable irregularities of the mean solar time scale, and to replace for these purposes Universal Time ( UT ) and any other time scale based on the rotation of the Earth around its axis, such as sidereal time.

Thus, medical practitioners would select treatment options for specific cases based on the best research for each patient they treat.

Thus, if there is no alternate rationale for prosecuting some people more harshly for the same crime based on who the victim is, then different defendants are treated unequally under the law, which violates the United States Constitution.

Thus the ceremony held at the site of the demolished Bastille, organized by the foremost artistic director of the Revolution, Jacques-Louis David, in August 1793 to mark the inauguration of the new republican constitution, an event coming shortly after the final abolition of all forms of feudal privilege, featured a cantata based on Rousseau's democratic pantheistic deism as expounded in the celebrated " Profession de foi d ' un vicaire savoyard " in Book Four of Émile.

Thus the Syrian Mandate provided that the government should be based on an organic law which should take into account the rights, interests and wishes of all the inhabitants, and that measures should be enacted “ to facilitate the progressive development of Syria and the Lebanon as independent States ”.

Thus materialism has no definite content independent of the particular theory of matter on which it is based.

Thus it is distinguished from revealed theology ( or revealed religion ) which is based on scripture and religious experiences of various kinds ; and also from transcendental theology, theology from a priori reasoning.

Thus, T ' ai chi ch ' uan in spite of its roots in martial arts has become similar in scope to Qigong, the purely meditative practice based on notions of circulation of qi.

Thus, for Rand, the fact that consciousness must itself possess identity implies the rejection of both universal skepticism based on the " limits " of consciousness and any claim to revelation, emotion or faith based belief.

Thus, Biblical poetry relies much less on metrical feet to create rhythm, but instead creates rhythm based on much larger sound units of lines, phrases and sentences.

Thus explanations of a sort are provided for the astrological effects of the planets, based upon their combined effects of heating, cooling, moistening, and drying.

Thus they developed a scheme of categories different from Aristotle's based on the ideas of Anaxagoras and Timaeus.

Thus meanings are generated on the fly based on finite context.

Thus Britain had both a formal Empire based on British rule and an informal one based on the British pound.

Thus, using Planck's constant h to determine the energy of the photons based upon their frequency, the energy of ejected electrons should also increase linearly with frequency ; the gradient of the line being Planck's constant.

Thus, motivations and actions for characters will change based on who is present on stage.

Thus a computer instantiating the ' conversation for action ' has the useful ability to model the status of the current social reality independent of any external reality on which social claims may be based.

Thus, on the highroad, a troop of soldiers `` marched in their own dust and sang '', while on the footpath one man walks alone.

Thus in both types attention is focused on the community itself, and its phenomenological life.

Thus, there is an added incentive to stay on the job.

Thus, an enemy would probably use this weapon for attack on static population centers such as large cities.

Thus, the client receives enough ego support to engage in constructive efforts on his own behalf.

Thus it is reasonable to believe that there is a significant difference between the two groups in their performance on this task after a brief `` structuring '' experience.

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 a context in which there has been discussion of snow but mention of local conditions is new, dominant stress will probably be on here in it rarely snows here, but in a context in which there has been discussion of local weather but no mention of snow, dominant stress will probably be on snows.

Thus in it's incredible what that boy can eat dominant stress is likely to be on incredible, and eat will have strong stress also.

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, in the example cited above Fromm rests his whole case on the premise that the workers are being deprived unconsciously, unknowingly, of fulfillment, and then supports this with survey data reporting conscious, experienced frustrations.

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, 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, moral issues concerning the nature of the legal and political processes take on theological dimensions.

Thus Baptist churches on the frontier took cognizance of charges against their members of drunkenness, fighting, malicious gossip, lying, cheating, sexual irregularities, gambling, horse racing, and failure to pay just debts.

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

Thus there was really an excess of eighteenth-century charm as one of these light-weight pieces followed another on Saturday night.

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, 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 agrarianism is not industrial farming, with its specialization on products and industrial scale.