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 events occurred, and victims changed in appearance, and new ones arrived.

Now, all that lasts is the decaying shell of a once thriving dwelling .” Thus, without the decrepit backdrop to initiate the events, the Gothic Novel would not exist.

Thus, while modafinil's unique stimulant profile features interactions with monoamine systems, these may very well be downstream events secondary to effects on specific, electrotonically-coupled populations of GABAergic interneurons.

Thus, the events of previous stories are considered to have happened within a certain number of years prior to the publishing date of the current issue.

Thus, no Nostradamus quatrain is known to have been interpreted as predicting a specific event before it occurred, other than in vague, general terms that could equally apply to any number of other events.

Thus, for example, people may speak of the significance of events, the signification of characters, the meaning of sentences, or the import of a communication.

Thus, Wimbledon, the US Open, the French Open, and the Australian Open ( dating to 1905 ) became and have remained the most prestigious events in tennis.

Thus, assigning age significance to a result requires studying the metasomatic and thermal history of the rock, any metamorphic events, and any evidence of fluid movement.

Thus in a fraction of the nuclear events ( the recoil-free fraction, given by the Lamb – Mössbauer factor ), the entire crystal acts as the recoiling body, and these events are essentially recoil-free.

Thus in the example above, a SAX parser may generate a different series of events, part of which might include:

Thus the Third Age of Middle-earth begins, with Isildur's fateful decision to keep the Ring of Power, which sets in motions the events that will lead to the War of the Ring.

Thus, metaphor works by presenting a target set of meanings and using them to suggest a similarity between items, actions, or events in two domains, whereas metonymy calls up or references a specific domain ( here, removing items from the sea ).

Thus there is argument that actions like the Gleiwitz incident and events in Bydgoszcz were all part of a larger Nazi plan to discredit the Poles.

Thus, in 2008, the women's foil and sabre events and men's épée were automatically selected.

Thus the evolution of atmospheric phenomena can be followed, ensuring real-time coverage of short-lived dynamic events, especially severe local storms and tropical cyclones — two meteorological events that directly affect public safety, protection of property, and ultimately, economic health and development.

Thus, in the study of historical Chinese culture, many of the stories that have been told regarding characters and events which have been written or told of the distant past have a double tradition: one which tradition which presents a more historicized and one which presents a more mythological version.

Thus, in classical physics, it was assumed that all events are caused by earlier ones according to the known laws of nature, culminating in Pierre-Simon Laplace's claim that if the current state of the world were known with precision, it could be computed for any time in the future or the past ( see Laplace's demon ).

Thus, argues Eliade, religious behavior does not only commemorate, but also participates in, sacred events:

Thus the Alexiad allows the events of the First Crusade to be seen from the Byzantine elite's perspective.

Thus, the earlier events must have been caused by more generalized types of disturbances to the biosphere.

Thus, there exists a statistically significant imbalance between the frequency of sudden stratospheric warmings if these events are grouped according to the QBO phase ( easterly or westerly ).

" Thus, the goals arguably serve as a litmus test for non-Satanists, more so than as a compendium of the Satanist purpose.

Thus it can be seen that an object with negative inertial mass would be expected to accelerate in the opposite direction to that in which it was pushed, which is arguably a strange concept.

Thus the possibility remained that for its new remake MGM could eliminate the arguably infringing elements of the 1932 film in a way that did not substantially alter the story, thereby complying with both the copyright law and the 1931 Agreement.

Thus these sessions resulted in some of the most important masterpieces of early jazz, of which West End Blues is arguably the best known.

Thus, Walpole, by extension, is arguably the forerunner to such authors as Charles Robert Maturin, Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and Daphne du Maurier.

Thus for instance ' the recent intellectual infatuation with structuralism and post-structuralism ' arguably lasted at least until ' September 11 ended intellectual infatuation with postmodernism ' as a whole.

Thus it is arguably difficult to assess whether Maudlin is suggesting that the direction of time is a consequence of the laws or is itself primitive.

Thus there is perhaps no surprise that his exhibit in the Songwriters Hall of Fame says he is " arguably one of the most successful lyricists to write for the screen ".

The statute, however, describes the offense differently: " No person, either orally or in writing, on oath lawfully administered or in a statement made under penalty of election falsification, shall knowingly state a falsehood as to a material matter relating to an election in a proceeding before a court, tribunal, or election official, or in a matter in relation to which an oath or statement under penalty of election falsification is authorized by law ..." Thus the requirement is, arguably, more a statement of current intent than a loyalty oath's promise of future support.

Thus, the war effort on Earth took on a clear rationale of defeating a despicable enemy with a fierce enthuasism in an arguably just war.

Thus he contends that not even God can change the Ten Commandments ( adding that God can change what individuals deserve in particular cases, in what might look like special dispensations to murder or steal ).

Thus, from Aristotle's perspective, in order to feel pity, a person must believe that the person who is suffering does not deserve their fate.

Thus, there is freshness not only in the individual movements of the dance but in the shape of their continuity as well.

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

Thus, when the Russians sent up their first sputnik, American chagrin was human enough, and American determination to put American satellites into orbit was perfectly understandable.

Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.

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 twenty `` black souls '' were to remain ignorant of their imminent journey to the land of free men.

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 they formed their own dioceses and national church, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, in a mostly amicable separation.

Thus a colonial bishop and colonial diocese was by nature quite a different thing from their counterparts back home.

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 we hear of abbots going out to hunt, with their men carrying bows and arrows ; keeping horses, dogs and huntsmen ; and special mention is made of an abbot of Leicester, c. 1360, who was the most skilled of all the nobility in hare hunting.

Thus, he believed real charity supplied the means for those who wish to help themselves, achieve their goals.

Thus, if people are accustomed to using a particular machine name to access a particular service, their access will break when the service is moved to a different machine.

Thus, on January 16, 1997, the Diamondbacks were officially voted into the National League while their expansion counterparts in Tampa Bay were voted into the American League.

Thus, most recipes that use bay leaves will recommend their removal after the cooking process has finished.

Thus the limbs of the castrati often grew unusually long, as did the bones of their ribs.

Thus the Hellenic laws treated all forms of theft, assault, rape, and murder as private wrongs, and left action for enforcement up to the victims or their survivors.

Thus the first two games were played at Wrigley Field and the next three at the home of their opponents, San Diego.

In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

Thus, by 1939, both Church ( 1934 ) and Turing ( 1939 ), neither having knowledge of the other's efforts, had individually proposed that their " formal systems " should be definitions of " effective calculability "; neither framed their statements as theses.

Thus, as an ethnic religion, Judaism holds that others may have their own, different, paths to God ( or holiness, or " salvation "), as long as they are consistent with the Seven Laws of Noah.

Thus literary criticism became highly theoretical and some of those practicing it began referring to the theoretical dimension of their work as " critical theory "-a philosophically inspired theory of literary criticism.

Thus, double-barreled shotguns are accurate only at practical shotgun ranges, though the range of their ammunition easily exceeds four to six times that range.