Thus Jerome's Chronicon lists 36 kings of the Assyrians, beginning with Ninus, son of Belus, down to Sardanapalus, the last king of the Assyrians before the empire fell to Arbaces the Median.

Thus, a player should use Blackwood only when he can ascertain that the partnership holds at least second-round controls in all suits ( kings or, if a suit fit is found, singletons ).

Thus, texts like the Annals will often state whether the calendar they use ( the calendar of Lu ) is in phase with the Royal calendar ( used by the Zhou kings ).

Thus, he cautiously states: " But knowing the sure number declared by Scripture, that is six hundred sixty and six, let them await, in the first place, the division of the kingdom into ten ; then, in the next place, when these kings are reigning, and beginning to set their affairs in order, and advance their kingdom, them learn to acknowledge that he who shall come claiming the kingdom for himself, and shall terrify those men of whom we have been speaking, have a name containing the aforesaid number, is truly the abomination of desolation.

Thus in the present-day Temne we have a people who partly withstood the Mane onslaught: they kept their language, but became ruled by a line of Mane kings.

Thus began the Hellenistic age, a period characterized by a more absolute approach to rule, with Greek kings taking on royal trappings and setting up hereditary successions.

Thus Saul ( 1 Sam 10: 1 ) and David were anointed as kings by the prophet Samuel:

Thus, Rama Varma Kulasekara, the last emperor of Chera dynasty, is probably the founder of the Venad royal house, and the the title of Chera kings, Kulasekara, was thenceforth kept by the rulers of Venad.

Thus, though scarcely influenced by the culture of the successor territories of the former Caliphate, Ferdinand I followed the example of the counts of Barcelona and the kings of Aragon and he became hugely wealthy from the parias of the Taifas.

: Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whom he has taken by his right hand to subdue nations before him and strip the loins of kings, to force gateways before him that their gates be closed no more: I will go before you levelling the heights.

Thus the County of Kladsko ( hrabství Kladské ) became a part of the Habsburg Monarchy ; the local counts retained their powers and Bohemian kings ( i. e. Habsburg emperors ) ruled this land as suzerains.

Thus the French kings are a good example of a non-imperial Catholic monarchy that was rather successful in getting a great say in the French Catholic Church ( such as commendatory prelatures ) and getting access to significant income from the Church's property ; during and around the ' Babylonian Exile ' of the papacy in Avignon they even had a heavy hand in the papacy as such ; and aspects of Gallicanism reflect the desire to give even the liturgy ( even when Latin was the only language for liturgical ritual in the Latin Rite ) a distinctive French flavour.

Thus, Hitler decided on a mausoleum the design of which was based on that of the Pantheon, not in its original function as a temple but in its later function as a tomb of the famous: the artist Raphael and the kings Victor Emannuel II and Umberto I.

Thus Ingjald made himself the sole ruler of the domains of the murdered kings.

Thus the process of following the teachings of the sage kings ( and a teacher who can teach them ) equates a renunciation of one's evil nature and a commitment to conscious activity ( conscious activity because one must deliberately and willingly change their actions in order to overstep their evils which would otherwise occur naturally, without conscious thought ).

Thus the Kingdom of Navarre, though the crown was still claimed by the kings of Aragon, passed by marriage to the House of Champagne, firstly to the heirs of Blanca, who were simultaneously counts of Champagne and Brie, with the support of the Navarrese Parliament ( Cortes ).

Thus, although all Jewish Kings were anointed, not all kings were considered messianic.

Thus, the Frankfurt cultural morphologists tried to reconstruct " the " world-view of hunters, early planters, and megalith-builders or sacred kings.

Thus, the Visigothic kings imposed a tax not upon each individual Jew or upon the heads of families, but upon the community as a whole, allowing the communal authorities to fix the individual rate of taxation.

Thus, he states that the Gothones were ruled by kings " a little more strictly than the other German tribes, but not as yet inconsistently with freedom " while beyond the Gothones, the Rugii and Lemovii ( tribes placed at the far end of Magna Germania, near the Baltic Sea ) lived in " servile submission to their kings ".

Thus, fools become wise, kings become beggars ; opposites are mingled ( fact and fantasy, heaven and hell ).

Thus, kings can be removed immediately to the Foundation.

" Thus Elizabeth bore the title of Queen of South Africa while her predecessors were kings of South Africa in law but not in title.

Thus, after two successful wars, Greece had doubled its territory by gaining most of Macedonia, Epirus, Crete and the rest of the Aegean islands, although the status of the latter remained as yet undetermined and a cause of tension with the Ottomans.

Thus Epirus came peacefully under imperial rule.

Thus Mussolini claimed that Italy under Fascist rule was not capitalist in the contemporary use of the term, which referred to supercapitalism.

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, while there was a good measure of debate in the Early Church over the New Testament canon, the major writings are claimed to have been accepted by almost all Christians by the middle of the 3rd century.

Thus, Nero had as his paternal grandmother Antonia Maior, and also claimed more remote descent from Antonia Minor as a great-grandson — later grandson after Claudius adopted him.

Thus the claimed similarities between creoles may be mere consequences of similar parentage, rather than characteristic features of all creoles.

He claimed that on top of individual exploitation, the capitalist also unjustly appropriates the additional value ( termed “ collective force ”) produced by co-operative activity as a “ force of one thousand men working twenty days has been paid the same wages that one would be paid for working fifty-five years ; but this force of one thousand has done in twenty days what a single man could not have accomplished, though he had laboured for a million centuries .” Thus the capitalist may have “ paid all the individual forces ” but “ the collective force still remains to be paid ” and which the capitalists “ enjoy unjustly .” Other notable anti-capitalist thinkers claim that the elite maintain wage slavery and a divided working class through their influence over the media and entertainment industry, educational institutions, unjust laws, nationalist and corporate propaganda, pressures and incentives to internalize values serviceable to the power structure, state violence, fear of unemployment and a historical legacy of exploitation and profit accumulation / transfer under prior systems, which shaped the development of economic theory:

Thus Taylor claimed that the leaders of 1914 became prisoners of the logic of the mobilisation timetables and the timetables that were meant to serve as deterrent to war instead relentlessly brought war.

Thus the council abolished annates, greatly limited the abuse of " reservation " of the patronage of benefices by the pope, and completely abolished the right claimed by the pope of " next presentation " to benefices not yet vacant ( known as gratiae expectativae ).

Thus, Carr claimed to have overheard Cooke's intrusion and the ensuing conflict and gunshots.

Thus, the claimed area of the ROC continues to include mainland China, several off-shore islands, and Taiwan.

Thus absolute, universal power was vested under early Islam in the original Caliphate ( before it became the political toy of worldly powers ' behind the throne ' and was even politically discarded by essentially secular princes ), and later again claimed by Mahdis.

He and other neoconservative leaders claimed that the intelligence community had grossly underestimated threats to the national security of the U. S. Thus, they established two secret offices in the Pentagon after September 11 – the Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group and the Office of Special Plans.

Thus some congestion charging schemes have been claimed a " success " because they have achieved a significant reduction in traffic volumes, even though there was little effect on actual journey times.

Thus, in this way, Ranke urged his readers to stay loyal to the Prussian state and reject the ideas of the French Revolution, which Ranke claimed were meant for France, not Prussia.

Thus, each side misinterpreted the moves of the other, and as a result each claimed victory.

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 it is officially claimed that the Universal Century is a time before Correct Century, possibly around 3, 000 years before the story of Turn A begins.

Thus he claimed that a deeper analysis carried one beyond the human subjectivity of even Kant's categorical imperative, since consciousness of obligation was " une experience imposée sous le mode de l ' absolu.

Thus, in 1829, Smith and his associate claimed that the Aaronic Priesthood was given to him by John the Baptist, who was thought to have authority through the lineage of his father Zacharias, who was an Aaronic priest.

Thus, relying on the Supreme Court's decision in California Democratic Party v. Jones, which had held that California's blanket primary violated the First Amendment ( despite the fact that the Court explicitly differentiated — albeit in dicta — the blanket primary from the open primary in Jones ), on McKinney's behalf, five voters claimed that the open primary system was unconstitutional, operating in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the associational right protected by the First Amendment, and various statutory rights protected by § 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

Thus the SS 80 / 90, for the heart of its operation, depended on the very technology it claimed to replace, a marketing tactic.

Thus, when Deodato claimed that he had not killed the group, questions arose as to why the actors were in no other media if they were alive.

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.