And so while only the area around Akhalgori is covered by the security corridor, the presence of South Ossetian soldiers here gives them de-facto control over a much larger portion of Georgia than acknowledged by Russia thus far.
And despite little evidence of large numbers of bodies, accounts like Than Lwin's lend credence to the notion that many more people died than the 34,000 thus far acknowledged by the government.
Cook denied any mission creep had occurred, saying the "advise-and-assist role has not changed", and that the elite forces, the only ones thus far acknowledged in Syria, conduct "meetings" with indigenous forces "that are taking the fight to Isil", another term for Isis.
von Krafft-Ebing (1906) documented only two cases of female sadism and two cases of female masochism, and acknowledged that he had "thus far not succeeded in obtaining facts with regard to pathological fetishism in women" (p. 24).
But anyone who wishes to bring science into the argument must acknowledge that the evidence thus far is weak, especially when it is combined statistically, in the fashion of a meta-analysis.
These were the prisoners the Misurata rebels had thus far publicly acknowledged up the point that the city's airport fell; the number now is almost certainly larger.
The former State Department official acknowledged that the air attacks thus far had not been a success and added, "What worries me is if, a month from now, bin Laden gets on Al-Jazeera and thumbs his nose at us.
Claudio Ranieri, the Italian boss responsible for Leicester's remarkable rise, has thus far refused to acknowledge his side are in the title race but 13-time winner Ferguson believes otherwise.
The new delivery options address major problems with shipping online sales, which UPS has thus far failed to acknowledge, much less remedy.
