Thus, a number of Allied soldiers received the Bronze Star Medal in World War II, as well as U. N. soldiers in the Korean War, Vietnamese and allied forces in the Vietnam War, and coalition forces in recent military operations such as the Gulf War, Operation Enduring Freedom and the Iraq War.

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 familiarized with the phenomena associated with the movements of recent glaciers, Agassiz was prepared for a discovery which he made in 1840, in conjunction with William Buckland.

" ( Thus Nemesis and Delia will be long remembered: the first Tibullus ' recent love, the other his first.

Thus, in recent years, mixed forests are cultivated instead of monocultures of spruces because the mixed forests are more resistant to weather effects and pests.

Thus women and children would have been able to participate in hunting, although in recent Australian Aboriginal societies spearthrowers are in fact restricted by custom to male use.

Thus the index is a fixed-weight index, but rarely a true Laspeyres index, since the weight-reference period of a year and the price-reference period, usually a more recent single month, do not coincide.

Thus, completing such a search over several decades requires consulting the Decennial Digests, and then updating that work with the most recent series of the General Digest.

Thus, aside from the annual event in Cape Verde ( which boasts an impressive track record in recent years ), true world-class wave sailing can only really be seen in non-competitive freeriding sessions around the world.

Thus, Eiswein is a more recent German wine style than the botrytised wines.

Thus many workers are now using a recent analysis by Wilson et al.

Thus, his ... Serenade ... is founded upon neoclassical Stravinskian principles, his three Amateur Piano Sonatas on Haydnesque principles, and his recent long Symphony Classical Orchestra is modeled after Beethoven.

Thus, it will probably be eventually assigned to a new, yet-to-be-named subfamily .< ref > ( 2006 ): Using ancient and recent DNA to explore relationships of extinct and endangered Leiolopisma skinks ( Reptilia: Scincidae ) in the Mascarene islands.

Thus, the recent history of the pieds-noirs has been imprinted with a theme of double alienation from both their native homeland and their adopted land.

Moreover, a recent study has recommended that the IDP concept should be defined even more narrowly, to be limited to persons displaced by violence .” Thus, despite the non-exhaustive reasons of internal displacement, many consider IDPs as those who would be defined as refugees if they were to cross an international border hence the term refugees in all but name is often applied to IDPs.

Thus an elevated IgM titre indicates recent primary infection, while the presence of IgG suggests past infection or immunization.

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, the epsilon, delta techniques that some believe to be the essence of analysis can be implemented once and for all at the foundational level, and the students needn't be " dressed to perform multiple-quantifier logical stunts on pretense of being taught infinitesimal calculus ", to quote a recent study.

Thus, according to recent scholarship and pedagogy, identifying a story's theme — for example, " death "— does not inherently involve identifying the story's thesis or claims about " death's " definitions, properties, values, or significance.

Thus anglicisms in Quebec French tend to be longstanding and part of a gradual, natural process of borrowing, whereas the often entirely different anglicisms in European French are nearly all much more recent and sometimes driven by fads and fashions.

Thus, recent studio recordings were edited to isolate and emphasize these sounds, creating an intricate web of pure noise.

Thus now the Russian Premier League are among the best in Eastern Europe, as evidenced by recent victories in the UEFA Cup ( CSKA Moscow defeated Sporting CP in the 2005 final and Zenit St. Petersburg earned a victory over Rangers F. C.

Thus bifes de Peru, turkey steaks, have become a recent addition to Portuguese tables.

Thus up to the mid 1990s the school was admitting 120 boys per year ; in recent years the number admitted has been in the 90s, though in 2009, 120 were admitted.

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, direct comparisons can be drawn with free burning arcs which have been studied in detail during the past years and decades by numerous investigators ( Ref. 3 ).

Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.

Thus, over the past 1, 500 years, some Christians have used the term Arian to refer to those groups that see themselves as worshiping Jesus Christ or respecting his teachings, but do not hold to the Nicene creed.

Thus he prohibited the application of torture to children under fourteen years, though this rule had exceptions.

According to the Christian doctrine of Universal Reconciliation, the Greek New Testament scriptures use the word " eon " to mean a long period ( perhaps 1000 years ) and the word " eonian " to mean " during a long period "; Thus there was a time before the eons, and the eonian period is finite.

Thus, it has a year 0, the years before that are designated with negative numbers and the years after that are designated with positive numbers.

Thus it was the Aeginetans who, within 30 or 40 years of the invention of coinage in Asia Minor by the Ionian Greeks or the Lydians ( c. 630 BC ), introduced coinage to the Western world.

Thus, it has been known for many years that, due to repulsive Coulombic interactions, electrically charged macromolecules in an aqueous environment can exhibit long-range crystal-like correlations with interparticle separation distances, often being considerably greater than the individual particle diameter.

Thus the week cycle is by itself not a full calendar system ; neither is a system to name the days within a year without a system for identifying the years.

Thus, for example, the English form is is an apparent cognate of German ist, Latin est and Russian < nowiki > jest '</ nowiki >, even though the Germanic, Italic, and Slavic language groups split at least three thousand years ago.

Thus the castrati came to supplant both boys ( whose voices broke after only a few years ) and falsettists ( whose voices were weaker and less reliable ) from the top line in such choirs.

Thus, southern Germany once more became part of the Frankish kingdom, as had northern Germany during the first years of the reign.

Thus it is unperturbed by complications such as leap years.

Thus, a multitude of Japanese emperors have ascended as children, as young as 6 or 8 years old.

Thus, in England and Wales or in Hong Kong, a person born on February 29, 1996, will have legally reached 18 years old on March 1, 2014.

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.

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 methane has a potential of 25 over 100 years but 72 over 20 years ; conversely sulfur hexafluoride has a GWP of 22, 800 over 100 years but 16, 300 over 20 years ( IPCC TAR ).

Thus in March 1979 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who kept absolute power ( until his overthrow in 2011 referred to as " Guide of the Revolution "), after ten years as combined Head of State and Head of government of the Libyan Jamahiriya (" state of the masses "), styled Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, formally transferred both qualities to the General secretaries of the General People's Congress ( comparable to a Speaker ) respectively to a Prime Minister, in political reality both were his creatures.

Thus, Hannibal took the Romans by surprise a scant two years later in 218 BC by merely reviving and adapting the original Gaulish-Carthaginian invasion plan of his brother-in-law.