Thus, an enemy would probably use this weapon for attack on static population centers such as large cities.

Thus field protection may be the primary mechanism that saved the population, but it is likely that field protection would not have been increased without CITES protection.

Thus, while values above one are common for newborns, the ratio dwindles until it is well below one for the older population.

Thus the modern population of Hungary do not feel that they belong in the Western Siberia that the Hungarian Magyars left 12 centuries ago ; and the English descendants of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes do not yearn to reoccupy the plains of Northwest Germany.

Thus Engset's equation should be used when the source population is small ( say less than 200 users, extensions or customers ).

Thus, although Scots were only 10 per cent of the British population, they made up 15 per cent of the national armed forces and eventually accounted for 20 per cent of the dead.

Thus, the intention is that approximately 95 % of the population scores within two SDs of the mean, i. e. has an IQ between 70 and 130.

Thus, Malaysia's population consists of 60. 4 % Muslims, 6. 4 % of Hindus and 9. 1 % of Christians ; the respective figures for Mauritius are 16. 6 %, 52 % and 30 %.

Thus, the total population of the country in 2004 amounted to 3, 938, 679.

Thus the Masurian population in 1890, 143, 397 were reported by German officials as having German as their language ( either primary or secondary ), 152, 186 Polish, and 94, 961 Masurian.

Thus, on the basis of remarks made by President Kim Il Sung in 1977 concerning school attendance, the population that year was calculated at 17. 2 million persons.

Thus, chronic food deficits drive resettlement into the Inner Terai to the detriment of indigenous Tharu people and eastward into Sikkim and Bhutan, where traditional practices of delayed marriage and diversion of significant population into monasteries and nunneries otherwise checked population growth.

Thus, Congo is one of the most urbanized countries in Africa, with 85 % of its total population living in a few urban areas, namely in Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire, or one of the small cities or villages lining the 332-mile railway which connects the two cities.

Thus, first slavery and then serfdom gradually decreased in Europe as the population grew, but were reintroduced in the Americas and in Russia as large areas of new land with few people became available.

Thus the urban area of Tirana has a population close to 600, 000.

Thus the area contains about one third of the population of the Kuyavia-Pomerania region ( which has about 2. 1 million inhabitants ).

Thus, these departments and the eastern portion of San José, which together constituted the Greater Montevideo region, held over one-half of Uruguay's population.

Thus other people pay the price of water pollution, while the private firms ' profits are not redistributed to the local population victim of this pollution.

Thus the current Albury-Wodonga population of approximately 104, 609 residents is far below the 300, 000 projected by Whitlam in the 1970s, a figure unlikely to ever be realised.

Thus the Allied powers at that time outnumbered the Axis powers in terms of population by 2. 7 to 1.

Thus, despite the population of France being greater than the population of all of the German states that participated in the war, the Germans mobilized more soldiers for battle.

Thus the northern desert region of the country contained semi-autonomous feudal Muslim states, while the southern population was predominantly Christian and Animist.

Thus a měizhōurén is an American in the generic sense, and a měiguórén is an American in the U. S. sense.

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, much of the spirits used in making a Canadian whisky, prior to aging, may have less grain-derived flavour than typical single malts or U. S. " straight " whiskeys.

Thus, it might be used to challenge the sharp distinction made in U. S. v. E. C. Knight ( 1895 ) between commerce, which was subject to federal regulation, and manufacturing, which was not.

Thus, in Wilson v. U. S. ( 1911 ), he asserted that corporate officers could not resist a subpoena for company records by invoking the Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination.

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 commercial lighting alone consumes about four to five million barrels per day ( equivalent ) of petroleum, in line with the alternate rationale above to estimate U. S. lighting energy consumption.

Thus enforcing that part of the treaty which was of interest to the United States, namely, " It granted the U. S. significant transit rights over the Panamanian isthmus "

Thus in four close U. S. elections ( 1824, 1876, 1888, and 2000 ), the candidate with the most popular votes still lost the election.

Thus far, Swiss authorities have blocked about 72 accounts totalling U. S .$ 22. 6 million.

Thus some of the suburbs of most of the developed world are comparable to several inner cities of the U. S. and Canada.

Thus, the Council was to consist of ( 1 ) all U. N. members administering trust territories, ( 2 ) the five permanent members of the Security Council, and ( 3 ) as many other non-administering members as needed to equalize the number of administering and non-administering members, elected by the United Nations General Assembly for renewable three-year terms.

Thus, for example, the Great Seal of the United States, among other uses, appears on the reverse of the one-dollar bill ; and several of the seals of the U. S. states appear on their respective state flags.

The absolute number of cancer cases attributed to exposure to gasoline, however, is low, estimated a few cases per year in the U. S. Thus, the decision to require fewer aromatics has been criticized on the grounds of opportunity cost: the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on process redesign could have been spent on other, more fruitful ways of reducing deaths caused by cancer or automobiles.

Thus, at his Canadian residence, Rideau Hall, George VI personally accepted and approved the Letter of Credence of the newly appointed U. S. Ambassador to Canada, Daniel Calhoun Roper.

Thus in the UK there is cost shifting from the private sector to the public sector, which again is the opposite of the allegation of cost shifting in the U. S. from public providers such as Medicare and Medicaid to the private sector.

Thus, some of today's auctioneers in the U. S. carry the unofficial title of " colonel ".

Thus, for this short period in LeMay ’ s career, he was technically an officer and enlisted soldier at the same time, a practice no longer permitted in the U. S. military.

Thus, U. S. 101 is treated as a primary, two-digit route with a " first digit " of 10, rather than a spur of U. S. 1.

Thus U. S. Route 101, not U. S. 99, is the westernmost north – south route in the U. S. Highway system.

Thus he developed and strongly supported " Vietnamization ", a program intended to expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U. S. combat troops.