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, many users of a given BBS usually lived in the same area, and activities such as BBS Meets or Get Togethers were common, where users of the board would gather at a local restaurant, the SysOp ’ s home or similar venue and meet face to face.

" Thus, even when reception was effected by a constitution, the common law was still subject to alteration by a legislature's statute.

Thus, if two species use the same codon at the same place to specify an amino acid that can be represented by more than one codon, that is evidence for a recent common ancestor.

Thus was born a new type of beef cattle for Central Brazil, with the name CANCHIM, derived from the name of a tree very common in the region where the breed was developed.

Thus, while values above one are common for newborns, the ratio dwindles until it is well below one for the older population.

Thus, a 7A is a common jazz stick with a wooden tip, while a 7N is the same weight of stick with a nylon tip, and a 7B is a wooden tip but with a different tip profile, shorter and rounder than a 7A.

Thus, in Alaska, Eskimo is in common usage, and is the preferred term when speaking collectively of all Inupiat and Yupik people, or of all Inuit and Yupik people throughout the world.

Thus, Kraepelin's system is a method for pattern recognition, not grouping by common symptoms.

Thus, any other number c that divides both a and b must also divide g. The greatest common divisor g of a and b is the unique ( positive ) common divisor of a and b that is divisible by any other common divisor c.

Thus, g is the greatest common divisor of all the succeeding pairs:

Thus, 21 is the greatest common divisor of 1071 and 462.

The media, in an attempt to explain the ideology of Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution to a Western audience described it as a " fundamentalist version of Islam " by way of analogy to the Christian fundamentalist movement in the U. S. Thus was born the term " Islamic fundamentalist ", which would come to be one of the most common usages of the term in the following years.

Thus, although there is an esoteric tradition in Judaism ( Kabbalah ), Rabbinic scholar Max Kadushin has characterized normative Judaism as " normal mysticism ", because it involves everyday personal experiences of God through ways or modes that are common to all Jews.

Thus a leader or important man will be characterised as generous, according to one common convention, and called an " enemy of gold ", " attacker of treasure ", " destroyer of arm-rings ", etc.

Thus, the " pencil beam " directly generated by a common helium-neon laser would spread out to a size of perhaps 500 kilometers when shone on the Moon ( from the distance of the earth ).

Thus, the most common letter in English, the letter " E ," has the shortest code, a single dot.

Thus, any system of policies that benefited one group would by definition harm the other, and there was no possibility of economics being used to maximize the " commonwealth ", or common good.

Thus, in several languages of the Banks Islands, including Mwotlap, the simple m stands for, but an m with a macron ( m ̄) is a labial-velar nasal ; while the simple n stands for the common alveolar nasal, an n with macron ( n ̄) represents the velar nasal ; the vowel ē stands for a ( short ) higher by contrast with plain e ; likewise ō contrasts with plain o.

Thus, the term is more one of common application to macroscopic fungal fruiting bodies than one having precise taxonomic meaning.

Thus the court accepted that a modified doctrine of tenure operated in Australia, and that the law of tenure ( as a product of the common law ) could co-exist with the law of native title ( as a product of customary laws and traditions ), though where there had been a valid grant of fee simple by the Crown the latter title would be extinguished.

Thus the term nucleon number may be used in place of the more common terms mass number or atomic mass number.

Thus, there is no sewage system, drinking water must be bought from vendors or carried from a nearby tap, and if there is electricity, it is stolen from a passing cable.

Thus, it seemed quite logical to promote the group as " Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band ", around the concept that Captain Beefheart had ' magic powers ' and, upon drinking a ' Pepsi ', could summon up " His Magic Band " to appear and perform behind him.

Thus, by drinking the water of Long Lake, you are drinking water straight from the glaciers.

Thus, by removing the keys, the other person facilitates this decision and ensures that it will be upheld in the face of paradoxical behaviour ( i. e., drinking ) by the driver.

Thus, Phocion and ten acquaintances were sentenced to die by drinking hemlock.

Thus in states like Texas and New Jersey, minors can sue a drinking establishment for their own injuries sustained while intoxicated.

Thus, at U. S. gatherings, drinking is most often limited to the first camp, known as " A Camp ," found just past the main entrance of each gathering.

Thus, they argued, oral pre-dawn consumption of auto-exogenous melatonin, by either re-setting of the sleep-wake cycle or enhancement of the physiological prerequisites for meditation ( decreased body awareness ( i. e. analgesia ) and claimed slowed brain wave activity, as well as heightened visualization ability ), may be the mechanism behind the alleged benefits ascribed to ' amaroli ' or auto-urine drinking by ancient texts of the yogic religion.

Thus, in effect, a two-tier system of student discipline is maintained ; Code of Student Conduct policies ( regarding things like parking or drinking ) are enforced by the Dean of Students ' Office while the Honor Code system ( with more serious penalties for lying, cheating, or stealing ) is maintained by the students themselves.

Thus, a drinking subculture grew in size and a crime subculture grew along with it.

Thus an increase in the speed of the car will twist the cup and speedometer pointer against the spring.

Thus, the cup product operation passes to cohomology, defining a bilinear operation

Thus, due to this emphasis on prayer in the early church, lengthy passages of the New Testament are prayers or canticles ( see also the Book of Odes ), such as the Prayer for forgiveness (), the Lord's Prayer, the Magnificat (), the Benedictus (), Jesus ' prayer to the one true God (), Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (), the Believers ' Prayer (), may this cup be taken from me (), Pray that you will not fall into temptation (), Saint Stephen's Prayer (), Simon Magus ' Prayer (), pray that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men (), Maranatha.

Thus, two of Britain's trading triangles were to meet within the cup: the sugar sourced from Britain's trading triangle encompassing Britain, Africa and the West Indies and the tea from the triangle encompassing Britain, India and China.

Thus, a measured current of one nanoamp ( 10 < sup >− 9 </ sup > A ) corresponds to about 6 billion ions striking the faraday cup each second.

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

Thus jazz is transmuted into something holy, the sacred road to integration of being.

Thus the fictional detective is much more than a simple businessman.

Thus the cocktail party would appear to be the ideal system, but there is one weakness.

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

Thus, it is no mystical intuition, but an analyzable conception to say that man and his tradition can `` fall out of existence ''.

Thus human perception and human volition is the immanent cause of all social change and this most truly when the change reaches the civilizational level.

Thus, circular motion is itself one of the essential characteristics of completely perfect celestial existence.

Thus, in no ordinary sense of ' simplicity ' is the Ptolemaic theory simpler than the Copernican.

Thus Burns's `` My love is like a red, red rose '' and Hopkins' `` The thunder-purple sea-beach, plumed purple of Thunder '' although clearly intelligible in content, hardly present ideas of the sort with which we are here concerned.

Thus science is the savior of mankind, and in this respect Childhood's End only blueprints in greater detail the vision of the future which, though not always so directly stated, has nevertheless been present in the minds of most science-fiction writers.

Thus the copywriter in the world of the space merchants is the person who in earlier ages might have been a lyric poet, the person `` capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing ''.

Thus there is a clearer division of authority, administrative and legislative.

Thus, as a development program is being launched, commitments and obligations must be entered into in a given year which may exceed by twofold or threefold the expenditures to be made in that year.

Thus, the need for the B-70 as a strategic weapon system is doubtful.

Thus technical efficiency is achieved at the expense of actual experience.

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

Thus, the Span of its ossification was shortened and the center's ability to `` catch up '' in ossification is demonstrated.

Thus T is not diagonalizable.

Thus Af is divisible by the minimal polynomial P of T, i.e., Af divides Af.

Thus, the study of the solutions to the equation Af is reduced to the study of the space of solutions of a differential equation of the form Af.

Thus in the three-dice example Af, Af, and the independence assumption imply that the probability that the three dice fall ace, not-ace, ace in that order is Af.

Thus we do not score the number of bull's-eyes, and the random variable is not the number of successes.

Thus if E is sufficiently small, there can be only one intersection of C and Af near Q, for if there were more than one intersection for every E then the difference between C and Af near Q would not be a monotone function.

Thus Af is also continuous at Af, and in a neighborhood of Af which does not contain a tangent point.