Thus, " earl " and " earldom " were taken as equivalent to the continental use of " count " and " county ".

Thus, the civil law systems of the countries of modern continental Europe, with the exception of Russia and the Scandinavian countries have, to different degrees, been influenced by the Napoleonic Code.

Thus, aboriginal hunting of both species may have contributed to the sea cow's disappearance from continental shorelines.

Thus legal realism or " relationalism " has been favored in some common law jurisdictions, where the kind of legal codification associated with continental ( and Japanese ) law are virtually unknown.

Thus continental philosophy tends toward historicism.

Thus paleogeography provides critical evidence for the development of continental drift and current plate tectonic theories.

Thus, the continental divide acts as a barrier for the precipitation.

Thus continental shelves were exposed and many islands became connected with the continents through dry land.

Thus the nations of continental Europe decided to go it alone and ' FIFA ' was born in Paris, uniting the Football Associations of France, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.

Thus, as the continental ice sheets of Quaternary glaciations advanced south according to each Milankovitch cycle, their northern edges were starved and it is believed that starvation caused them to retreat substantially southward by the time the southern limits of maximum glaciation were approached.

Thus Plato's rhetoric is actually dialectic ( or philosophy ) " turned " toward those who are not yet philosophers and are thus unready to pursue dialectic directly.

Thus philosophers like Voltaire opposed absolutism while at the same time being strongly pro-monarchy.

Thus, although Enlightenment philosophers saw the Roman Republic as an ideal system, it included no systematic separation of powers, and depended on slave labor.

Thus, French philosophers Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze signed in November 1977 L ' Appel des intellectuels français contre la répression en Italie ( The Call of French Intellectuals Against Repression in Italy ) in protest against Negri's imprisonment and Italian anti-terrorism legislation.

Thus, in the long-standing debate on whether free will is compatible with the doctrine of determinism, several philosophers have proposed analyses of the relevant concepts to argue for either compatibilism or incompatibilism.

Thus, although many religions may not recognize the difference, for Aristotle and many philosophers hubris is altogether an entirely different thing from pride.

Thus, for example, he enlisted the aid of geographers, historians and philosophers in bringing notions of time and space into the central heartlands of social theory.

Thus, they are primarily philosophers dealing with other subjects, economists, or business management theorists.

Thus they tread heavily on the ' philosophy ', but risk losing the ' African '; this risk, however, is by no means unavoidable, and many African philosophers have successfully avoided it, including Kwame Anthony Appiah, Kwame Gyekye, Kwasi Wiredu, Oshita O. Oshita, Lansana Keita, Peter Bodunrin, and Chukwudum B. Okolo.

Thus, in North America, there is an active second generation of reformational philosophers in Calvin Seerveld ; a third generation including Hendrik Hart, Bernard Zylstra ( deceased ), James Olthius, Arnold DeGraaff ( afterward a practicing psychotherapist for 30 years and co-founder of Mono Therapy Center, Mono, Ontario ), Thomas McIntire, Albert M. Wolters, William Rowe, George VanderVelde ( a theologian who took his doctorate under G. C. Berkouwer ); and fourth-generationers Paul Marshall and Robert Sweetman may be added-to name just those who have had active professorial roles at ICS.

Thus the two emerging philosophers became more than friends but also brothers-in-law, while later they also became colleagues as professors at VU.

Thus Aristotle was one of the most prolific natural philosophers of Antiquity.

Thus what were once espoused by the great philosophers of the likes of Swami Vivekananda are once again being exhorted by the modern day corporate world.

Thus, a poison that covers surface randomly will tend to reduce the number of uncontaminated large planes but leave proportionally more smaller sites free, thus changing the hydrogenation vs. hydrogenolysis selectivity.

Thus, dialectical materialists tend to accord primacy to class struggle.

Thus macroscopic objects tend toward being neutral overall, but macroscopic objects are rarely perfectly net neutral.

Thus, from an evolutionary perspective men may have had more to gain from a large increase in resources than women have had, which may be one explanation for why men, and especially poor men, tend to gamble more than women.

Thus, criminals tend to repeat their crimes, and eventually end up facing execution or exile.

Thus, the purl wales in ribbing tend to be invisible, since the neighboring knit wales come forward.

Thus the classes of nymphs tend to overlap, which complicates the task of precise classification.

Thus prices tend to be rigid.

Thus, oscillations tend to decay with time unless there is some net source of energy into the system.

Thus, theoretical physicists tend to regard these dimensionless quantities as fundamental physical constants.

Thus steep surfaces and edges tend to be brighter than flat surfaces, which results in images with a well-defined, three-dimensional appearance.

Thus, property taxes tend to be imposed on property owners.

Thus younger stars will tend to have a higher portion of heavy elements in their atmospheres than do the older stars.

Thus 8-PSK is often omitted from standards and, as seen above, schemes tend to ' jump ' from QPSK to 16-QAM ( 8-QAM is possible but difficult to implement ).

Thus the net current integrated over a nanosecond will tend more to stay near its average value of 100 electrons rather than exhibiting the expected fluctuations ( 10 electrons rms ) we calculated.

Thus, the coins that circulate in the transaction will tend to be of the most debased sort available to the parties.

Thus, larger particles tend to become sorted to the top of such a mixture.

Thus, we will tend to stay in ( and return large numbers of samples from ) high-density regions of, while only occasionally visiting low-density regions.

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, diagnosis of appendicitis by CT is made more difficult in very thin patients and in children, both of whom tend to lack significant fat within the abdomen.

Thus economic and social endeavors, which tend to strengthen the collective, are seen as valuable, whereas education and religion, which tend to strengthen the individual, are seen as counterproductive.

Thus, as poll results are repeatedly reported, the bandwagon effect will tend to snowball and become a powerful aid to leading candidates.

Thus, the social conflict theory states that groups within a capitalist society tend to interact in a destructive way, that allows no mutual benefit and little cooperation.

Thus the correlation coefficient is positive if X < sub > i </ sub > and Y < sub > i </ sub > tend to be simultaneously greater than, or simultaneously less than, their respective means.