Thus we are compelled to face the urbanization of the South -- an urbanization which, despite its dramatic and overwhelming effects upon the Southern culture, has been utterly ignored by the bulk of Southern writers.

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, despite the obvious analogy to planets revolving around the Sun, electrons cannot be described as solid particles.

Thus, despite all of these desirable properties, such engines have not succeeded in production because of costs for the ceramic components and the limited advantages.

Thus gravity is the dominant force at distance in the universe, despite being much weaker.

Thus, despite widely held popular belief outside the Orthodox cultures, there is not one bishop at the head of the Orthodox Church ; references to the Patriarch of Constantinople as a leader equivalent or comparable to a pope in the Roman Catholic Church are mistaken.

Thus, despite Gemma's intimate connection with a powerful American politician, who was then director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ( UNRRA ), it took two years to be cleared and sent to the United States.

Thus, the Middle-earth legendarium, despite its lack of overt religious elements, can be interpreted as a profoundly religious work.

Thus, despite its universal occurrence, diamagnetic behavior is observed only in a purely diamagnetic material.

Thus Netanyahu, despite his theoretical position of power, needed the support of the religious parties to form a viable government.

Thus Servius was divinely fathered and already destined for greatness, despite his mother's servile status ; for the time being, Tanaquil and Ocrisia kept this a secret.

Thus despite the fact no cigars have been brought into the hotel, each guest can smoke a cigar inside the property.

Thus, despite the diminished stature of Henry the Lion, Frederick did not gain his allegiances.

Thus the concrete existence of the Xia is yet to be proven, despite efforts by Chinese archaeologists to link Xia with Bronze Age Erlitou archaeological sites.

Thus, despite the population of France being greater than the population of all of the German states that participated in the war, the Germans mobilized more soldiers for battle.

Thus, the prefix ferro, meaning iron, was used to describe the property despite the fact that most ferroelectric materials do not contain iron.

Thus, despite appearing brilliant white to observers on Earth, Halley's Comet is in fact pitch black.

Thus, even if one were to prescribe a likely and reasonable meaning to the sentence, the grammaticality of the sentence is concrete despite being the first time a person had ever uttered the statement, or any part thereof in such a combination.

Thus, despite its lack of a full guarantee of religious freedom or broad-based tolerance, the law is, " a significant step forward in the struggle for religious liberty.

Thus, despite ongoing research, a complete understanding of the causes of mental disability in Graves ’ disease awaits a full description of the effects on neural tissue of thyroid hormones, as well as of the underlying autoimmune process.

Thus the FitzGeralds also claim an association with Áine ; despite the French-Norman origins of the clan, the FitzGeralds would become known for being " More Irish than the Irish themselves.

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, despite the use of the long scale, one billion is called un milliard (" one milliard ") in French, and not mille millions (" one thousand million ").

Thus, despite some observable elements in Naruto ( Oiroke no Jutsu

Thus Koons concludes that the problem of theodicy ( explaining how God can be good despite the apparent contradiction presented in the problem of evil ) does not pose a challenge to all possible forms of theism ( i. e., that the problem of evil does not present a contradiction to someone who would believe that God exists but that he is not necessarily good ).

" Thus Ambrose refused to be drawn into a false conflict over which particular local church had the " right " liturgical form where there was no substantial problem.

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

Thus, no two nuclear powers have yet fought a conventional war directly, with the exception of brief skirmishes between for example, China and Russia in the 1969 Sino-Soviet conflict and between India and Pakistan in the 1999 Kargil War.

Thus, Cyril followed his uncle in a position that had become powerful and influential, rivalling that of the prefect in a time of turmoil and frequently violent conflict between the cosmopolitan city's Pagan, Jewish, and Christian inhabitants.

Thus, Cair Andros was of vital strategic importance during the centuries of conflict with Mordor to the east.

Thus both the Pattern and Logrus are forestalled for a time, in their attempts to escalate their conflict: while Corwin begins the journey back to Amber, Merlin-who wants peace with Amber-returns to Chaos to await his coronation.

Thus SPECTRE's main strategy is to instigate conflict between two powerful enemies, namely the superpowers, hoping that they will exhaust themselves and be vulnerable when it seizes power.

Thus, Carr claimed to have overheard Cooke's intrusion and the ensuing conflict and gunshots.

Thus, one conforms to the group standard, but as soon as one does, eliminating this external conflict, internal conflict is introduced ( because one has violated one's own standards ).

Thus even small-scale land reforms and legal modifications may be subject to intense debate or conflict.

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 they ended up on opposite sides in the conflict, as regional stability gives way to national discord and social breakdown, and the war begins to quite literally tear families apart.

Thus, nationalism is invoked in conscience to quell tribal conflict and the notion of a Brotherhood of Man is invoked to quell national conflicts.

Thus both kingdoms were represented in man, and hence a conflict symbolized on the side of Light by the Twelve Patriarchs, heavenly spirits, who corresponded to certain of man's powers, and on the side of Darkness by the Signs of the Zodiac, the symbols of matter and the lower kingdom.

Thus Azaña came into conflict with both the right and far left.

Thus at the very outset of the conflict, the Department of the Navy adopted a policy of going to the source of the enemy's strength.

Thus they adopted the rhetoric of Norman vs. Saxon conflict as part of a much wider ideology.

Thus, as Holmwood states, “ Merton explicitly made power and conflict central issues for research within a functionalist paradigm ”.

Thus he emphasized the long-term conflict among industrialists in the Northeast, farmers in the Midwest, and planters in the South that he saw as the cause of the Civil War.

" Thus, the requirement for active armed conflict remained in the Army and Navy awards manuals.

Thus, the 1989 amendment applies only to those held outside of armed conflict, which also means that hostility is a designation that does not require armed conflict.

Thus it inevitably contributed to the strengthening of labor unions and of labor-vs-management conflict ( which was the opposite of any of Taylor's own hopes for labor relations ).

Thus, there may be exculpation if the level of force used in defense matches the force threatened and the " winner " of the conflict first retreated or showed a clear intention not to fight ( assuming this was possible in the time available ).