Thus the view from Whitehall early in 1916: If defeat was not imminent, neither was victory ; and the outcome of the war of attrition on the Western Front could not be predicted.

Thus, Octavian's victory at the Battle of Actium gave him sole and uncontested control of " Mare Nostrum " ( Our Sea i. e. the Roman Mediterannean ) and he became " Augustus Caesar " and the " first citizen " of Rome.

Thus the victory will be yours if we allow you to be not the steward but the lord of Holy Scripture.

Thus, the whole war could be decided by a single field battle ; victory was enforced by ransoming the fallen back to the defeated, called the " Custom of the Greeks ".

Thus the Scots won a significant victory which boosted the confidence of their army.

Thus, Brutus ’ s army could not reform, which made the triumvirs ’ victory complete.

Thus, a series victory in India, which Australia had not achieved since 1969 – 70, remained elusive.

Thus, what might have been another celebration of the Union victory became a memorial to the war dead on both sides.

Thus, some would argue, victory at Fleurus was a leading cause of 9 Thermidor a month later.

Thus, having recovered his stature, in the middle of the year he was sent by the princes to invite Kerbogha to settle all differences by a duel which the Emir subsequently declined ; and in 1099 he appears as treasurer of the alms at the siege of Arqa ( March ), and as leader of the supplicatory processions around the walls of Jerusalem before it fell and later within Jerusalem which preceded the Crusaders ' miraculous victory at the Battle of Ascalon ( August ).

Thus, Charles's skepticism was derived from the realisation that none of the strategic prerequisites for an Austrian victory in this war had materialised.

Thus began the 2007 – 2008 Kenyan crisis, as violence broke out in several places in the country, started by the ODM supporters protesting the " stealing " of their " victory ", and subsequently escalating as the targeted Kikuyus retaliated.

Thus Maurice Farman was awarded the ' Grand Prix de Pau ' for his overall victory in the Circuit du Sud-Ouest driving a Panhard 24 hp.

Thus the Swedish forces were diverted from their real objective and transferred to another field where even victory would have been comparatively unprofitable.

Thus Crispus achieved his most important and difficult victory which further established his reputation as a brilliant soldier and general.

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

Thus, the crucifixion of Christ is a victory because Christ could have fought His enemies, but He chose to die on the cross.

Thus Maurice Farman was awarded the ' Grand Prix de Pau ' for his overall victory in the Circuit du Sud-Ouest driving a Panhard 24 hp.

Thus the tribbles redeem themselves and enable the Federation to score a diplomatic victory against the Klingons.

Thus, the battle turned back Japan's last major attempt to dislodge Allied forces from Guadalcanal and nearby Tulagi, resulting in a strategic victory for the U. S. and its allies and deciding the ultimate outcome of the Guadalcanal campaign in their favor.

Thus the so-called " Stab-in-the-back legend " () was born, according to which the revolutionaries had attacked the undefeated army from the rear, and turned the almost certain victory into a defeat.

Thus, the " Myth of the Stab in the Back " was born according to which the revolutionaries stabbed the army, " undefeated on the field ", in the back and only then turning the almost secure victory into a defeat.

" Thus SA distinguishes itself from other S groups by defining sexual sobriety as no sex with self or with partners other than with one's spouse and a progressive victory over lust.

Thus, Yang would be renowned as the true reason for Jiang Ziya's victory over the Diablo Brothers at an overall point.

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, many long-term investors, even those who buy and hold for decades, may be classified as speculators, excepting only the rare few who are primarily motivated by income or safety of principal and not eventually selling at a profit.

Thus, the rejection of the reform by more than 52 % of the voters was widely considered to be mostly motivated by weariness with de Gaulle, and ultimately provoked his resignation that year.

Thus the order of the letters in ⟨⟩ and ⟨⟩ is not arbitrary, but is motivated by the phonetic details of these sounds.

Thus the Pickering rule has been extended to all offences, and a captain need no longer worry that the opponents are deliberately breaking the rules to waste time ( which was what had motivated OTH to hot 3 on 8 in the first place ).

Thus, while the majority of those who support the current regime may consider criminalisation of politically motivated behaviour an acceptable response when the offender is driven by more extreme political, ideological, religious or other beliefs, there may be a question of the morality of a law which simply criminalises ordinary political dissent.

Thus, a new angle to the show would have been added, as it would have been finally understood what made Heddy tick, and had motivated her to be so haughty and manipulative.

Thus, they initiated a new wave of baptisms to Hindus who were motivated by social coercion into converting.

Thus, Buckingham's later opposition to Charles's insistence that his brother James ( later James II played by Charlie Creed-Miles ) inherit the throne, appears to be motivated by merely spite and jealousy rather than a feeling of betrayal.

Although they “ had interest in the historical heroes and their trek … they the vision of Pacific trade that had motivated the exploration and settlement of the Oregon Country .” Thus, the Legislature passed “ An Act Celebrating the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Exploration of the Oregon Country ,” which appropriated a sum of approximately $ 500, 000 for the fair.

Thus, individuals are motivated to maintain wa ( harmony ) and participate in group activities, not only on the job but also in after-hours socializing ( nomikai ).

Thus the fictional detective is much more than a simple businessman.

Thus if E is sufficiently small, there can be only one intersection of C and Af near Q, for if there were more than one intersection for every E then the difference between C and Af near Q would not be a monotone function.

Thus, this readiness to relax controls, evidenced in the Kohnstamm situation, appears to be a more general personality factor.

Thus, when more than one distinct form leads to a particular cell in the X-region, a chain of information cells must be created to accommodate the forms, one cell in the chain for each form.

Thus, food so processed might reach more remote markets and permit the consumer to enjoy more produce at peak freshness and palatability.

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, while altruistic persons may under some circumstances be outcompeted by less altruistic persons at the individual level, according to group selection theory the opposite may occur at the group level where groups consisting of the more altruistic persons may outcompete groups consisting of the less altruistic persons.

Thus although most species in the order are herbaceous, some no more than 15 cm high, there are a number of climbers ( e. g. some species of Asparagus ), as well as several genera forming trees ( e. g. Agave, Cordyline, Yucca, Dracaena ), some of which can exceed 10 m in height.

In mathematics, an associative algebra A is an associative ring that has a compatible structure of a vector space over a certain field K or, more generally, of a module over a commutative ring R. Thus A is endowed with binary operations of addition and multiplication satisfying a number of axioms, including associativity of multiplication and distributivity, as well as compatible multiplication by the elements of the field K or the ring R.

Thus, ocular albinism occurs more frequently in males as they have a single X and Y chromosome, unlike females, whose genetics are characterized by two X chromosomes.

Thus they could be used in place of the more expensive Athlon MP in dual socket A motherboards.

Thus for an ion which traverses a 1 m flight path, across a time of 2000 ns, given an initial accelerating voltage of 5000 V and noting that one amu is 1 × 10 < sup >− 27 </ sup > kg, the mass-to-charge ratio ( more correctly the mass-to-ionisation value ratio ) becomes Z amu / charge.

Thus, for high-energy neutrons beryllium is a neutron multiplier, releasing more neutrons than it absorbs.

Thus, negotiation generally features only in games for three or more people.

Thus, the theory asserts that the apple is no more than the collection of its properties.

Thus, a single " rule ," like mapping every real number x to x < sup > 2 </ sup >, can lead to distinct functions and, depending on whether the images under that rule are understood to be reals or, more restrictively, non-negative reals.

Thus, the energy required to break any single pair is related to the energy required to break all of the pairs ( or more than just two electrons ).

Thus while bumblebees have been found to be about ten times more efficient pollinators on cucurbits, the total efficiency of a colony of honey bees is much greater due to greater numbers.

Thus, at a given angular rate of rotation, a concave surface represents the stable situation, and the more rapid the rotation, the more concave this surface.

Thus, under Elizabeth, a more permanent enforcement of the Reformed religion was undertaken, and the 1552 book was republished in 1559, scarcely altered.

Thus, if two species use the same codon at the same place to specify an amino acid that can be represented by more than one codon, that is evidence for a recent common ancestor.

Thus, the universe would have been even more special before the thermalization than after .” The problem of specific or “ fine-tuned ” initial conditions would not have been solved ; it would have gotten worse.