Thus one prevents long strings without change via such devices as run length limited codes.

Thus, from the starting position, it takes little skill and no imagination to avoid losing, and nothing in the rules prevents games from being interminable.

Thus, parts of these two nuclei are driven to send more inhibitory signals to the ventrolateral nucleus of the thalamus, which prevents the development of significant activity in the motor cerebral cortices.

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, despite widely held popular belief outside the Orthodox cultures, there is not one bishop at the head of the Orthodox Church ; references to the Patriarch of Constantinople as a leader equivalent or comparable to a pope in the Roman Catholic Church are mistaken.

Thus in 1992, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, while affirming that " the Church does not know of any means other than Baptism that assures entry into eternal beatitude ", but also stating that " God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism, but he himself is not bound by his sacraments ", stated: " As regards children who have died without Baptism, the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as she does in her funeral rites for them.

Thus, separate Catholic schools and school boards were permitted in Ontario.

Thus, at the beginning of the 17th century, the Rhine lands and those south to the Danube were largely Catholic, while Lutherans predominated in the north, and Calvinists dominated in certain other areas, such as west-central Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Thus the Council Fathers meant to say that the being of the Church as such is a broader entity than the Roman Catholic Church, but within the latter it acquires, in an incomparable way, the character of a true and proper subject.

Thus, the Catechism of the Catholic Church ( published in 1994 ) condemns the use of torture as a grave violation of Human Rights.

Thus, a modern Catholic saint, Josemaria Escriva said, while consoling a dying woman who was suffering in a hospital, " Blessed be pain!

Thus Rothko ’ s design of the building and the religious implications of the paintings were inspired by Roman Catholic art and architecture.

Thus, while numerous traditional Catholics opposed voting rights for women, the Pope was in favour, arguing that, unlike the feminist protagonists, most women would vote conservative and thus support traditional Catholic positions.

Thus, Joseph was undoubtedly a much laxer Catholic than his mother, perhaps even to the point of being Catholic in name only simply because it was a requirement for the throne.

Thus, some modern historians have stressed the critical and incendiary role that militant preachers played in shaping ordinary lay beliefs, both Catholic and Protestant.

Thus, the Catholic Church accepts the ' priesthood of all believers ' doctrine – it is not the exclusive domain of Protestantism.

Thus, within the Latin-Rite Catholic Church, the term subdeacon now applies only to those ordained to that rank within one of these groups and to acolytes in countries where the Episcopal Conference has chosen to give them the name of subdeacon.

Thus, from the Inquisition's point of view a person who had been baptized into the Catholic faith but was found to be secretly practicing Jewish or Muslim customs was considered to be a Catholic culpable of heresy-and punishable under the law.

Thus, other Christian ( Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant ) denominations with different teachings which are not heretical are considered heterodox.

Thus the Credo of the Liberal Catholic Church Liturgy written by Leadbeater reads:

Thus, in 1999 he requested and obtained formal permission from Elizabeth II to marry the Roman Catholic Princess Caroline of Monaco.

Thus a Maronite Catholic is normally subject only to a Maronite bishop.

Thus, a devise " to John Smith, so long as no one operates a liquor store on the premises, but if someone does operate a liquor store on the premises, then to the Roman Catholic Church " would violate the rule.

Thus the houses of Georgian Dublin, particularly in the early phase before Catholic Emancipation was granted in 1829, were almost invariably owned by a small Church of Ireland Anglican elite, with Catholics only gaining admittance to the houses as skivvies and servants.

Thus the controversy finally shifted to a speculative theological question: whether or not it was consonant with Catholic Faith to hold that Christ and the Apostles had no property individually or in common ; and while in the famous dispute at Narbonne in 1321 the inquisitor, John of Belna, claimed that it was heretical, Berengarius of Perpignan declared it a Catholic dogma in perfect accordance with the decretals of Nicholas III and Clement V.

Thus at the first Council of Constantinople, AD 448, 23 archimandrites or abbots sign, with 30 bishops.

Thus, the 1979 Puebla Conference was an opportunity for orthodox bishops to reassert control of the radical elements ; but they failed.

Thus a player could in theory simultaneously have as many as ten knights, ten bishops, ten rooks or nine queens on the board.

" Thus, he proceeded to pressure several priests and bishops into abjuring their positions.

Thus, the Council of Trent combated " absenteeism ," which was the practice of bishops living in Rome or on landed estates rather than in their dioceses.

Thus again the Antiochian church was divided into rival factions, not grounded on any difference of faith, but simply on a preference of bishops.

Thus the 1969 Instruction states that, for cardinals and bishops, " the elbow-length cape, trimmed in the same manner as this cassock, may be worn over it ".

Thus the Golden Bull of Emperor Charles IV names the bishops as prince-bishops, a rank not awarded to the other three Prussian bishops ( Culm, Pomesania, and Samland ).

Thus, the 1905 French law on the separation of Church and State removed the special status of the four state religions ( although by the Briand-Ceretti Agreement the state subsequently regained a role in the procedure for nominating bishops ), except in Alsace-Lorraine, at the time part of Germany, but left to them the use without fee of the churches that they used prior to 1905.

Thus was founded the Monastery of Lérins, which has enjoyed so great a celebrity and which was during the fifth and sixth centuries a nursery for illustrious bishops and remarkable ecclesiastical writers.

Thus, even if a teaching on a matter of faith and morals is out of favor among the bishops of a later date, once it has been held by all the bishops to be accepted by the faithful as infallible, then it is considered infallible and unchangeably true.

Thus the Orthodox Church, though it may not use the same terminology, would generally accept the Catholic views of the infallibility of bishops in an ecumenical council, with the important reservation that not every council that proclaims itself ecumenical is so in fact.

Thus in Christianity, bishops of almost all denominations have a ceremony of enthronement after they assume office or by which they assume office.

Thus in 542, following two decades of persecutions which had decapitated the Monophysite leadership, he appealed for the appointment of new Monophysite bishops in Syria to the Empress Theodora, whose own Monophysite leanings were well-known.

Thus in little more than a hundred years the structural arrangement by provinces envisaged by the First Council of Nicaea was, according to John H. Erickson, transformed into a system of five large divisions headed by the bishops of Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem.

Thus, while a conference of bishops can assist the individual bishops of the conference it cannot substitute for the authority which they individually possess.

Thus down to 1840 there were but ten colonial bishops ; and of these several were so hampered by civil regulations that they were little more than government chaplains in episcopal orders.

Thus the Church organization supported the state, and in return, bishops received important government titles ( in the later era, they were members of the Senate of Poland ).