Africa has thus contributed nothing to the historical accumulation of greenhouse gases through carbon-based industrialisation.
The government thus contributed to the hype that caused billions of dollars to be invested in long-distance fiber optic networks that go unused.
Many of the Germans had supported Hitler, and thus contributed to the destruction of the pre-war Czechoslovak state.
Close to 200,000 German-born soldiers fought in the Union armies, sent letters home and thus contributed to shaping the positive image of Lincoln in the country they had left behind.
My father, Alan Bromley, who has died aged 88, was one of the driving forces in promoting the new town developments of the 1940s and 50s, and thus contributed to the government's masterplan to modernise postwar Britain.
Plants in the east were not similarly regulated and thus contributed to general atmospheric pollution; after unification a number of them were closed and others were upgraded.
The Belgic and semi-Belgic tribes later formed the civilized nucleus of the Roman province and thus contributed greatly to Roman Britain.
Book dealers traveled to famous bookstores in search of rare manuscripts for purchase and resale to collectors and scholars and thus contributed to the spread of learning.
Almost two-thirds of financial advisers fear that if they flog pensions to moderate earners they may later be accused of mis-selling.Outsourcing policyLabour's haphazard policy-making thus contributed to the mess that the commission had to sort out.
Of course, in this vast historical laboratory, nearly all the defaults were accompanied by currency depreciations — if not outright currency meltdowns — that swung the current-account balance from deficit to surplus and thus contributed to the recovery.
Ultra, Allied intelligence project that tapped the very highest level of encrypted communications of the German armed forces, as well as those of the Italian and Japanese armed forces, and thus contributed to the Allied victory in World War II.
