Thus a sacrifice bunt or squeeze play is typically used instead.

Thus miniatures were no longer required for game play, although some players continued to use them as a visual reference.

Thus there was a spirit of celebratory play.

Thus, to say the name of the play inside a theatre is believed to doom the production to failure, and perhaps cause physical injury or death to cast members.

( Thus, a song that is in the public domain is free to play on the radio, regardless of who performs it or when it was performed.

Thus education would play an important role in creating a balance through rigorous exercise of beneficial organs while repressing baser ones.

Thus when the record was played multiple times, different recordings would play seemingly at random.

Thus, Player 1 is motivated to play a balanced first four moves ; otherwise, Player 2 can easily win by selecting the side with the stronger position.

Thus going into Super Bowl XIX, many sports writers predicted that it would be the first of many Super Bowls that Marino would play in during his career.

Thus, as the game goes on, fewer and fewer failure cards are in play.

Thus, if the player went far out of play, he was in the " popcorn machine.

Thus, in 6-5-Joker-2-A, the joker plays as a 3, while in Joker-5-4-3-2 it would play as a 7 ( an ace or six would make a straight ).

Thus, you finesse against a missing honor, but you finesse the card you yourself play, the card finessed being so played that it has a chance of winning against the missing higher card.

Thus, it appears that this part of the brain may play a role in the display and modulation of aggression.

Thus he taught himself how to play cello, guitar, the piano and other instruments, wrote lyrics and poetry and later also assumed jobs as actor in some movies and TV shows or at the theatre.

Thus in the Armoured Corps, the traditional administrative " regiment " tends to play more of a ceremonial role, while in practice, its members are administered by their corps or " branch " as in the Artillery.

Thus psychological and cultural mechanisms are implied as unvarying differences in jealousy that play a role in sexual attachment.

Thus, the player ’ s score is directly tied to the amount of time he has to play the game.

Thus, bidding a blind 8 or higher is contrary to standard game play, and is not allowed.

Thus the team would be forced to play teams that were considered second-rate opponents.

Thus, few were aware of the play, and fewer bought tickets.

Thus, the " dummy " is always first or last to play in the 2-player version.

Thus many gamblers believe that they can play the martingale strategy with very little chance of failure long enough to double their bankroll.

Thus if a baserunner running from third base crosses home plate with two out before a batter is put out on a ground out or before a fly ball is caught after two outs, then the run that would otherwise score is null ; likewise, if a conventional double play is made with one out on a ground ball involving forces at other bases, the run that would otherwise score before the third out is registered is void.

Thus the government simultaneously undertook the vast burden of social security which had traditionally been privately discharged, and created a national scarcity which has engendered calamitous problems of social security.

Thus it was that Barco, apprehended for mere larceny, now began to suspect that one or another of his murders had been uncovered.

Thus, when Dartmouth's Winter Carnival -- widely recognized as the greatest, wildest, roaringest college weekend anywhere, any time -- was broadcast over a national television hookup, Prexy John Sloan Dickey appeared on the screen in rugged winter garb, topped off by a tam-o'-shanter which he confessed had been acquired from a Smith girl.

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

" Thus Ambrose refused to be drawn into a false conflict over which particular local church had the " right " liturgical form where there was no substantial problem.

Thus, from the human body, the usual form assigned to the Deity, forasmuch as it is written that God created man in his own image, issue the two supporters, Nous and Logos, symbols of the inner sense and the quickening understanding, as typified by the serpents, for the same reason that had induced the old Greeks to assign this reptile for an attribute to Pallas.

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 Dürer contributed to the expansion in German prose which Martin Luther had begun with his translation of the Bible.

Thus the price of wheat had fallen.

Thus, Walsh modified the vertical passing scheme he had learned during his time with the Raiders, designing a horizontal passing system that relied on quick, short throws-often spreading the ball across the entire width of the field.

Thus a fighter realizing he was in trouble had an opportunity to recover.

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

In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

Thus, by 1939, both Church ( 1934 ) and Turing ( 1939 ), neither having knowledge of the other's efforts, had individually proposed that their " formal systems " should be definitions of " effective calculability "; neither framed their statements as theses.

Thus, many understood Eutyches to be advocating Docetism, a sort of reversal of Arianism — where Arius had denied the consubstantial divinity of Jesus, Eutyches seemed to be denying his human nature.

Thus the Rump never had more than two hundred members ( less than half the number of the Commons in the original Long Parliament ).

Thus, every non-Han dynasty saw itself as the legitimate holder of the " Mandate of Heaven ", which legitimized the dynastic cycle regardless of social or ethnic background as it was moral integrity and benevolent leadership that had been validating the " Mandate of Heaven.

Thus, Cyril followed his uncle in a position that had become powerful and influential, rivalling that of the prefect in a time of turmoil and frequently violent conflict between the cosmopolitan city's Pagan, Jewish, and Christian inhabitants.

Thus, this supposedly distinctive feature was easy to use, but had nothing to do with actual phylogenic relationship.

Thus the dragoon regiments of the Imperial German Army wore the pickelhaube ( spiked helmet ) of the same design as those of the infantry and the British dragoons wore scarlet tunics, In other respects however dragoons had adopted the same tactics, roles and equipment as other branches of the cavalry and the distinction had become simply one of traditional titles.

Thus Bolesław the Brave might have received Kraków as his part of his father's legacy before the Dagome iudex had been written.

Thus, churches actually had money-changing tables at which each coin would be examined separately and a token of actual worth given to the layperson so that he or she could be seen by the other parishioners as putting money in the basket during that part of the service.