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In response, it cleaned up its act, and thereby lifted the bar for the entire industry.
The Sierra Leone ministry of health refused to share data in the early outbreak and instructed the WHO to report only lab-confirmed deaths, thereby excluding the "probable" and "suspect" cases that could not be tested because of the lack of testing facilities.
Inside the country, Fidesz has favoured the middle class, and especially the upper middle class, thereby building a core clientele of politically active supporters – while slashing benefits for the neediest (about a third of Hungarians live in poverty – don't be fooled by the glittering, EU-funded projects in the centre of Budapest).
Moscow could grant Greece privileged import access, thereby generating revenue for struggling companies back home and allowing Tsipras to present a concrete result to his voters.
Running to more than 2,000 pages and costing hundreds of millions of euros, the report concluded that Lowry proceeded to bypass consideration by his cabinet colleagues and thereby not only influenced but also delivered the result that Esat Digifone had won the evaluation process, ultimately leading to the licensing award.
It is also a parallel universe where when a young woman faced with the loss of housing benefit and loss of shelter doesn't make a decision to get pregnant and thereby keep her housing benefit.
He acknowledged and apologised for his administration's promotion of dumping cheap US rice on Haiti, thereby destroying Haitian rice production and forcing rice farmers to flee to the overcrowded cities. Buttonholed in a UN hallway, he claims he thought that Haitians would "get aid to skip agricultural development and go straight into an industrial era".
Confirming the UK's withdrawal, the new Foreign Office minister, Lady Anelay, highlighted an "unintended pull factor"' of search and rescue: "that it encourages more migrants to attempt the dangerous sea crossing, thereby leading to more tragic and unnecessary deaths".
I'm also sorry that I helped to start the anti-GM movement back in the mid-1990s and that I thereby assisted in demonising an important technological option which can be used to benefit the environment.
But in an analogous way Moscow is now lending them support, political and financial, thereby boosting European neo-fascism.
"If the Scottish experiment worked, it could make a pure residence charge look sensible rather than extreme, and thereby pave the way for its introduction in England and Wales," said Letwin, confirming the long-made but never confirmed charge that Thatcher treated people in Scotland as "guinea pigs" for England and Wales.
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The primary grammatical function of "thereby" is to serve as an adverb of result . It connects an action with its direct consequence, indicating that the action leads to a specific outcome. As Ludwig AI suggests, this adverb is often used to add conciseness to writing.
Expression frequency: Very common
