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The rationality of voters is an interesting, if uncomfortable, area of inquiry among economists and others, such as Michael Huemer, a philosophy professor, who weighs in thusly :Perhaps the most striking feature of the subject of politics is how prone it is to disagreement only religion and morality rival politics as a source of disagreement.
Mr Klein describes the problem thusly :So long as bond traders are calling their political fixers and hearing reassuring things about how they've seen this before and this is just how Washington works and there's no way that Boehner and Obama won't come to a deal before Social Security checks stop going out, they'll give us time to work it out.
It puts me in mind of a scene from The Mating Season by PG Wodehouse, described thusly by Mark Steyn:In [the book], a Hollywood starlet recounts to Bertie Wooster her encounter with an elderly English spinster who turned out to be something of a movie fan.
The Social Security Administration publishes the return and duration of its portfolio each year going back to 1941.The trust fund in these special Treasury bonds was not simply invested thusly to give the government another source of tax revenue.
It thusly made any direct tax subject to the rules articulated in Article I, Section 2. Consequently, unless the U.S. Congress expected all income taxes to be apportioned among the states according to their populations, the power to levy income taxes was rendered impotent.
Each symbol has a numerical value, and messages are decoded into English thusly : first, translate the first symbol directly (0=A, 1=B, etc)., then for remaining letters subtract the previous symbol's value (if the result is less than 0, add 26).
In The Curfew, the story of one family's struggle against an unnamed totalitarian regime, Ball suppresses the urge to deploy giant type until fully 50 pages into the story, but used thusly it feels, alas, more like mannerism than experiment.
And so her career continued thusly – the epitome of deliberate contradiction – as she stumbled from stage to interview, dressed like a prom queen and swearing like a trucker.
Which are described thusly on her agency site… Just in case you wanted to know how tall she was or something: Oh, and she can do the following accents, should you so require her to do so… Cockney, Dublin, London, Northern.
In an interview for The Paris Review that same year, she described her fiction thusly : "What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.
Schneier, who has reviewed the documents, describes the process thusly : "Basically, the NSA asks companies to subtly change their products in undetectable ways: making the random number generator less random, leaking the key somehow, adding a common exponent to a public-key exchange protocol, and so on".
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The adverb "thusly" functions to modify a verb, clause, or sentence , indicating the manner in which something is done or the consequence of a preceding action. Ludwig AI confirms that "thusly" means ‘in this way’ or ‘accordingly.’
Expression frequency: Very common
