Thus the term asteroid has come increasingly to refer specifically to the small bodies of the inner Solar System out to the orbit of Jupiter, which are usually rocky or metallic.

Thus, over the past 1, 500 years, some Christians have used the term Arian to refer to those groups that see themselves as worshiping Jesus Christ or respecting his teachings, but do not hold to the Nicene creed.

Thus far, the origins of the word remain inconclusive, as the term is not used outside Mexican-American communities, further indicating that the term is primarily self-identifying.

Thus use of the term " period " is somewhat deceptive.

Thus, in the sentence " There exists a man ", the term " man " is asserted to be part of existence.

Thus, in Alaska, Eskimo is in common usage, and is the preferred term when speaking collectively of all Inupiat and Yupik people, or of all Inuit and Yupik people throughout the world.

Thus in each term ( endothermic & exothermic ) the prefix refers to where heat goes as the reaction occurs.

Thus, the term " maternal surname " means the patrilineal surname which one's mother inherited from either or both of her parents.

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

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, on 2 December 1851, shortly before the end of his single three-year term in office was to expire, Louis Bonaparte staged a coup against the Second Republic in France, disbanded the elected Constituent Assembly, arrested some of the Republican leaders and declared himself Emperor Napoleon III of France.

The book takes the term from Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, where it is used in the context of the often nauseating quality of existence.

Thus the often-used term body needs to stand for a wide assortment of objects, including particles, projectiles, spacecraft, stars, parts of machinery, parts of solids, parts of fluids ( gases and liquids ), etc.

Thus, for example, the term " glucose " may signify glucofuranose, glucopyranose, the open-chain form, or a mixture of the three.

Thus, the term is more one of common application to macroscopic fungal fruiting bodies than one having precise taxonomic meaning.

Thus, in 1938, Somoza Garcia named a Constituent Assembly that gave the president extensive power and elected him for another eight-year term.

Thus, Wicca in particular is sometimes referred to by its proponents as " The Old Religion ", a term popularised by Margaret Murray in the 1920s, while Germanic neopaganism is referred to in some of its varieties as Forn Sed (" Old Custom ").

Thus the term nucleon number may be used in place of the more common terms mass number or atomic mass number.

Thus each polynomial is actually equal to the sum of the terms used in its formal expression, if such a term a < sub > i </ sub > X < sup > i </ sup > is interpreted as a polynomial that has zero coefficients at all powers of X other than X < sup > i </ sup >.

Thus, the terminology has poor standardization and specificity, particularly as a database search term.

Thus, the 1960 SI definition abandoned any explicit relationship between the scientific second and the length of a day, as most people understand the term.

Thus, Septimius Severus spent the remainder of his second term as quaestor on the island.

Thus, although the term is sometimes viewed as a synonym or euphemism for prostitute, it is more general.

Thus common law systems are adopting one of the approaches long common in civil law jurisdictions.

Thus, over the course of time, parallel to the civil law and supplementing and correcting it, a new body of praetoric law emerged.

Thus, Roman law is often still a mandatory subject for law students in civil law jurisdictions.

Thus in the modern thought the state is contrasted with civil society.

Thus later sociologists of religion ( notably Robert Bellah ) have extended Durkheimian insights to talk about notions of civil religion, or the religion of a state.

Thus begins a civil war in Sweden between father and son, which will last until Erik's death in 1359.

Thus, civil broadcast standards for time and frequency usually follow TAI closely, but occasionally change discontinuously ( or " leap ") in order to prevent them from drifting too far from mean solar time.

Thus began a 4-month civil war that destroyed or damaged much of the capital.

Jeff Snyder is a spokesman for the view that gun possession is a civil right, and that therefore arguments about whether gun restrictions reduce or increase violent crime are beside the point: " I am not here engaged in ... recommending ... policy prescriptions on the basis of the promised or probable results crime ... Thus these essays are not fundamentally about guns at all.

Thus, the civil law systems of the countries of modern continental Europe, with the exception of Russia and the Scandinavian countries have, to different degrees, been influenced by the Napoleonic Code.

Thus, a civil action or appeal in which the court's decision will not affect the rights of the parties is ordinarily beyond the power of the court to decide, provided it does not fall within one of the recognized exceptions.

Thus, a Christian symbolic theme was applied quite naturally to a form borrowed from civil semi-public precedents.

Thus all revolt, whether civil or religious, is a direct defiance of the Almighty.

Thus, PMC contractors are civilians ( in governmental, international, and civil organizations ) authorized to accompany an army to the field ; hence, the term civilian contractor.

Thus a civil war began between the Northern Court ( Mạc ) and the Southern Court ( Restored Lê ).

Thus, the conflicts are often misleadingly labelled and characterized as civil wars when they are inter-ethnic conflicts in a multi-ethnic state.

Thus a " new " civil war broke out in 1648.

Thus the division set up by Diocletian between civil governors ( praesides etc.

Thus in the foundation of 1350, Bateman stated that the college's aim was " the promotion of divine worship and of canon and civil science and direction of the commonwealth and especially of our church and diocese of Norwich.

Thus, for example, the Gandhian ahimsa is a philosophy and strategy for social change that rejects the use of violence, but at the same time sees nonviolent action ( also called civil resistance ) as an alternative to passive acceptance of oppression or armed struggle against it.

Thus began a series of civil wars known as the Carlist Wars, named after the Carlists, who supported Prince Carlos ' claim.

Thus, emancipative values provide social capital that activates societies, makes publics more self-expressive, and vitalizes civil society.

Thus, Guatemala's 36-year civil war ended with a signature of a peace treaty in 1996.

Thus the High Court may hear appeals from the Supreme Court of Nauru in both criminal and civil cases, with certain exceptions ; in particular, no case pertaining to the Constitution of Nauru may be decided by the Australian court.