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 the discovery report by the Berkeley group reads: " It is suggested that element 97 be given the name berkelium ( symbol Bk ) after the city of Berkeley in a manner similar to that used in naming its chemical homologue terbium ( atomic number 65 ) whose name was derived from the town of Ytterby, Sweden, where the rare earth minerals were first found.

Thus we cannot define being, unity and similar concepts.

Thus Esperanto achieved a stability of structure and grammar similar to that which natural languages enjoy by virtue of their native speakers and established bodies of literature.

Thus, similar immune systems may be more vulnerable to infectious diseases ( see Major histocompatibility complex and sexual selection ).

Thus, both versions of the problem are of similar difficulty.

Thus, T ' ai chi ch ' uan in spite of its roots in martial arts has become similar in scope to Qigong, the purely meditative practice based on notions of circulation of qi.

Thus there is an export mechanism similar to the import mechanism.

Thus, Melnyk's rebuttal, stated very crudely, is that one should define physicalism in relation to current physics, and hold a similar attitude towards its truth as most scientists hold towards the truth of currently accepted scientific theories.

Thus, finding any evidence of extraterrestrial life similar to ours would lend credibility to exogenesis.

Thus, the final game was very stripped down from its original intentions, and instead featured gameplay similar to Doom and its sequel, although levels and enemies were closer to medieval RPG style rather than science-fiction.

Thus Vietnamese, Tai – Kadai and Hmong – Mien ( Miao – Yao ), all languages with a similar tone system to Chinese, were classified under the Sino-Tibetan tree.

Thus, strategy becomes important as players attempt to predict each others ' moves, similar to rock-paper-scissors.

Thus, versatile word processors with layout editing and similar capabilities find widespread use in most business.

Thus, power output of a Wankel engine is generally higher than that of a four-stroke piston engine of similar engine displacement in a similar state of tune ; and higher than that of a four-stroke piston engine of similar physical dimensions and weight.

However, scholars agree that these words of Montanus exemplify the general practice of religious prophets to speak as the passive mouthpieces of the divine, and to claim divine inspiration ( similar to modern prophets stating " Thus saith the Lord ").

Thus rather than " nurture ", behavior geneticists distinguish shared family factors ( i. e., those shared by siblings, making them more similar ) and nonshared factors ( i. e., those that uniquely affect individuals, making siblings different ).

Thus similar optimization techniques can be used across languages.

Thus the image on paper has a texture similar to that of a charcoal drawing.

Thus, his response to Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court was to write a similar time travel novel ( Lest Darkness Fall ) in which the method of time travel was rationalized and the hero's technical expertise both set at a believable level and constrained by the technological limitations of the age.

Thus, some view Catiline as a reformer such as the Gracchi who met similar resistance from the government.

Thus the ratio of two similar quantities was not just a numerical value, as we think of it today ; the ratio of two similar quantities was a primitive relationship between them.

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, if every historian were to claim that there was a solar eclipse in the year 1600, then though we might at first naively regard that as in violation of natural laws, we'd come to accept it as a fact.

Thus, during the abdication crisis of 1936, caused by Edward VIII's desire to marry Wallis Simpson, the consent of all realms concerned, along with, in some cases, new acts of parliament, was required in Britain and throughout the British Dominions to allow for Edward's stepping aside and to ensure that if he had any children they would have no claim to the thrones.

Thus, Abulafia in the 13th century assumed that the language spoken in Paradise had been different from Hebrew, and rejected the claim then current also among Christian authors, that a child left unexposed to linguistic stimulus would automatically begin to speak in Hebrew.

Thus, in the Hindu schools, if a claim was made that could not be substantiated by appeal to the textual canon, it would be considered as ridiculous as a claim that the sky was green and, conversely, a claim which could not be substantiated via conventional means might still be justified through textual reference, differentiating this from the epistemology of modern science.

Thus, SETE could not claim copyright on photographs or panoramas of Paris incorporating the lit tower.

Thus in A v United Kingdom, the Court dismissed a claim that a derogation lodged by the British government in response to the September 11 attacks was invalid, but went on to find that measures taken by the United Kingdom under that derogation were disproportionate .< ref >

Thus, there is a good basis for affirming the straightforward and traditional claim that the Epistle to Titus was authentically written by Paul.

Thus in the system of units in which the fine structure constant is fixed, the observational claim is that the speed of light is time-dependent.

Thus, this system negates the claim that taking away any of the flagellum's parts would render it useless.

Thus literate lay defendants often also claimed the right to benefit of clergy ; furthermore, as the Biblical passage used for the literacy test was always Psalm 51 ( Miserere mei, Deus ...-" O God, have mercy upon me ..."), an illiterate person who had memorized the psalm could also claim benefit of clergy.

Thus, some claim that, from the 4th century, there existed unanimity in the West concerning the New Testament canon ( as it is today ), and that, by the 5th century, the Eastern Church, with a few exceptions, had come to accept the Book of Revelation and thus had come into harmony on the matter of the canon.

Thus if we wish to claim that no-cloning is a uniquely quantum result, some care is necessary in stating the theorem.

Thus, for Rand, the fact that consciousness must itself possess identity implies the rejection of both universal skepticism based on the " limits " of consciousness and any claim to revelation, emotion or faith based belief.

Thus panentheism separates itself from pantheism, positing the extra claim that God exists above and beyond the world as we know it.

Thus, according to Wittgenstein, mental states are intimately connected to a subject's environment, especially their linguistic environment, and conceivability or imaginability arguments that claim otherwise are misguided.

Thus, they claim, to conceive of a particular apple and its redness is not to conceive of applehood or redness-in-general, so they question the source of the concept.

Thus, although they would admit from the problem of pretense, that at no one time can we claim to have access to another's mental state, they are not permanently unavailable to us.

Thus the mathematical formulation of the Alcubierre metric does not contradict the conventional claim that the laws of relativity do not allow a slower-than-light object to accelerate to faster-than-light speeds.

Thus, though the College lays claim to few examples of neo-classical design, the College Library stands as one of the earliest examples of English neo-Gothic architecture.

Thus Kito's main claim is that he is responsible for the cookie being so strongly associated with Chinese restaurants.