Which preposition to use with antagonisms

to Occurrences 77%

I could not catch the eye of Ella cowering low in her seat, so could not judge what tender chords had been struck in her sensitive breast by these two assertions so dramatically offset against each otherthe one, his antagonism to the dead; the other, his freedom from the crime in which that antagonism was supposed to have culminated.

between Occurrences 48%

To my mind there appears to be no sort of necessary theoretical antagonism between Catastrophism and Uniformitarianism.

of Occurrences 46%

One felt all the time the strong antagonism of the church to the Republic.

in Occurrences 18%

The quiet of this house seemed to arouse a sense of suspicion and antagonism in his mind.

against Occurrences 8%

The climax to this antagonism against Persia came in 1911.

toward Occurrences 7%

The bad manners of Germans are proverbial, not only among Americans, but all over the world; so much so that certain German writers, admitting that Germans as a nation are ill-mannered, have sought to find in this fact an explanation for the world-wide antagonism toward Germany's policy in the war.

with Occurrences 6%

It is the fate of prophets to be stoned when they are in antagonism with men in power, or with popular sentiments.

towards Occurrences 3%

Ali was consulted by the Prophet, and he, with that antagonism towards Ayesha which germinated later into open hatred, was inclined to believe her defamers.

on Occurrences 2%

Sometimes the statement of principles opposed to existing prejudices arouses opposition, and any active antagonism on the patient's part must tend to intensify the barrier of conscious personality which it is the healer's first object to remove.

among Occurrences 2%

Racial antipathy and class antagonism among the whites appear to have contributed to this result.

for Occurrences 2%

I forgot my dislike of greenflies, and was overcome with a fierce antagonism for the fat fellow who had the game so entirely in his hands.

as Occurrences 1%

But now she had not to reckon with such as these, but with enemies of her own sort, with an antagonism as reckless of law and order as she herself.

over Occurrences 1%

American antagonism over the Irish Question has not been conciliated by this strange oversight.

than Occurrences 1%

There was a Border-land between Britain and Ireland, blackened and scarred by more burning antagonisms than those that once divided the larger island.

beneath Occurrences 1%

And Dade, loving the things they loved and living the life they lived, speedily forgot that there was still an undercurrent of antagonism beneath that surface of work and play and jokes and songs and impromptu riding and roping contests (from which José Pacheco was laughingly barred because of his skill and in which Dade himself was, somehow, never invited to join).

without Occurrences 1%

I have asked myself this: Is it possible that a cool-headed, resolute attorney like Mr. David Kent would move so far and so determinedly in this matter of antagonism without substantially paving the ground under his feet with evidence as he went along?" Kent admitted that it was possible, but highly improbable.

behind Occurrences 1%

" She saw his grim smile for an instant, and knew that he was playing his old fencing game with her, but at the same time she knew that there was no antagonism behind his point.

by Occurrences 1%

And, indeed, had he been reared under the tutelage of one of those modern silver-tongued American pedagogues, who make gentle requests lest they should elicit antagonism by commands, the military school should soon completely alter the complexion of his ideas, for he would find his failures in the execution of orders treated as disobedience.

from Occurrences 1%

But to her surprise the two men met more or less awkwardly and coldly, and her tact as hostess was tried to the utmost to keep their evident antagonism from being too apparent.

at Occurrences 1%

The man who made a great nation out of half-breeds and chaos was so sure of his own position, his own strength, and I may say his own motives, that he did not encourage antagonism at the polls, and "free voting" remained a name only.

like Occurrences 1%

"Well, if you meet my well-meant efforts on your behalf with open antagonism like this I can't make any further suggestion.

Which preposition to use with  antagonisms