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 arguably deserve their own ontological category.

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, if is the total number of trials and is the number of trials where the event occurred, the probability of the event occurring will be approximated by the relative frequency as follows:

Thus, " the onus of being the last ' People of the Book ' engendered an ethos of " early on and the establishment of important book repositories throughout the Muslim world has occurred ever since.

Thus elongation of legs and head as well as reduction of toes gradually occurred, producing the only extant genus of Equidae, Equus.

Thus a phonemic split has occurred in London English, exemplified by the minimal pair wholly vs. holy.

Thus, a major shift in focus, from concern for the individual ’ s moral behavior to concern for the individuals theological practices, occurred with the post-Reformation morality plays.

Thus, the role of the hippocampal region in navigation appears to begin far back in vertebrate evolution, predating splits that occurred hundreds of millions of years ago.

Thus, if a pogrom had occurred in Radom, it would surely have been rationalized by ra dam ‘ of bad blood ’.

Thus Arthur, " the once and future king ," is an illegitimate child ( though the later legend emphasizes that the conception occurred after Gorlois ' death and that therefore he was legitimated by Uther's subsequent marriage to Igraine ).

Thus, the martyrdom may have occurred in the aftermath of Septimus Severus ’ s decrees of 202 that forbade conversion to Judaism and Christianity .< ref > Brent Shaw, “ The Passion of Perpetua ,” Past and Present 139, ( May 1993 ), JSTOR 30 < http :// www. jstor. org / stable / 651089 >, 10-11.

Thus the majority vote in favour of the amendment to the militia bill caused the downfall of Russell's ministry, which occurred on February 21, 1852.

Thus, a stimulus that has occurred before sexual interaction comes to cause sexual arousal, which prepares the individual for sexual contact.

Thus, if services that had been classified as telecommunications services are re-classified as information services, as recently occurred for high-speed digital subscriber line (“ DSL ”) services, then the universal service assessment base will decline and carriers that depend on universal service funding may see a decline in support.

Thus the general rule that the long's ' " never occurred at the end of a word " is not strictly correct, although the exceptions are rare and archaic.

Thus, scoring a test right – wrong loses 1 ) how students achieved their correct answers, 2 ) what led them astray towards unacceptable answers and 3 ) where within the body of the test this departure from expectation occurred.

Thus, it rather appears as if the divergence of the Lesser Whitethroat complex and its closest living relatives is more ancient than assumed, and that it did not involve separation by ice sheets building up in Europe, but by aridification of the Arabian region ( which also occurred throughout the Ice Ages ).

Thus, without widening, traffic would be even worse than it is, contributing even more pollution, something which occurred in Sydney, Australia, during the New South Wales state government's " No Freeways " era in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Thus his later childhood and young adulthood occurred during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl years.

Thus, the change from freshwater to salty water and eventually salt flats started over 2, 400 to 6, 400 years before the oldest of the impacts hypothesized by the Tollmann bolide hypothesis occurred.

" Thus, penis-to-penis rubbing between males is thought, according to varying evolutionary theorists, to have existed before the development of hominids into humans and bonobos, and may or may not have occurred in the homosexual activity of both of these genetically related species.

Thus our modern day use of a name such as ' Christopher Columbus ' can be thought of as referring to Columbus through a causal chain that terminates not simply in one instance of his naming, but rather in a series of grounding uses of the name that occurred throughout his life.

Thus an average of one foot of movement occurred every 300 years ( 1 cm per year on average ).

Thus passive Catholic nationalism stylized by Father Lionel Groulx gave way to a more active pursuit of independence, and in 1963 the first bombings by the Front de libération du Québec occurred.

Thus, the investigators were able to fully examine tubes in only 2 out of 3 cases ; perforations occurred in about 4 % of cases.