Which preposition to use with approved

of Occurrences 1250%

My mother-in-law, who knew three or four languages, did not at all approve of the careless habit we had all got into of mixing our languages and using French or Italian words when we were speaking Englishif they came more easily.

in Occurrences 25%

The people is asked its opinion, but the first measure taken to obtain it is to establish military terrorism throughout the country, and to threaten with deprivation every public agent that does not approve in writing what has been done.

on Occurrences 13%

Sir William Killegrew's plays have been applauded by men very eminent in poetry, particularly Mr. Waller, who addresses a copy of verses to him upon his altering Pandora from a tragedy into a comedy, because not approved on the stage.

as Occurrences 12%

Do you not see, then, that by following these studies you are walking in the very path to which England owes her wealth; that you are training in yourselves that habit of mind which God has approved as the one which He has ordained for Englishmen, and are doing what in you lies toward carrying out, in after life, the glorious work which God seems to have laid on the English race, to replenish the earth and subdue it?

with Occurrences 7%

In this isle remote Our painted ancestors were slow to learn, To arms devote, of the politer arts Nor skilled nor studious; till from Neustria's coasts Victorious William, to more decent rules Subdued our Saxon fathers, taught to speak The proper dialect, with horn and voice To cheer the busy hound, whose well-known cry His listening peers approve with joint acclaim.

at Occurrences 6%

The thing was neither understood nor approved at first by the French Government.

out Occurrences 4%

approves out of Halyabbas, Rhasis, and Avicenna.

without Occurrences 4%

But, my lords, as I cannot assume the province of disputing on this question, so I cannot, without longer consideration, form any resolution concerning it; for arguments may be fallacious, which, yet, I cannot confute, and to approve without knowledge is no less weak than to censure.

unto Occurrences 3%

The prayer of the true workman is ever to make himself a workman approved unto God.

for Occurrences 2%

The firing trial of the first new 110½ ton breech loading gun approved for H.M.'s ships Benbow, Renown, and Sanspareil was commenced recently at the Woolwich proof butts, under the direction of Colonel Maitland, the superintendent of the Royal Gun Factories.

by Occurrences 2%

The subject is now proposed for the consideration of Congress, because if approved by the time the State legislatures shall have deliberated on this extension of the Federal trusts, and the laws shall be passed and other arrangements made for their execution, the necessary funds will be on hand and without employment.

than Occurrences 2%

The Devil, if there be a personal deviland it has been pointed out, with some show of reason, that an impersonal one could scarcely carry out such enormous contractswould, in all probability, rather approve than otherwise of indiscriminate truth-telling.

bazar Occurrences 1%

Sometimes the Great Mogul and his court would amuse themselves by holding a mock fair, in which the prettiest of the nobles' wives and daughters would act as traders, and the Emperors and the Begums would bargain with them in the most approved bazar fashion.

after Occurrences 1%

The proposal was approved after personal discussion with Admiral Bacon, and directions were given that the earliest supplies of the new pattern mines were to be allocated for this service; these mines commenced to become available early in the following November, and were immediately laid.

against Occurrences 1%

1. &c. Marigold is much approved against melancholy, and often used therefore in our ordinary broth, as good against this and many other diseases.

before Occurrences 1%

The Quaestio however was finished and approved before the day of a certain Congregation, and then the undergraduate was declared to be "actualiter in artibus Baccalaureum.

from Occurrences 1%

[B.C. 28 (a. u. 726)] [-1-] The following year Cæsar held office for the sixth time and did everything according to the usage approved from very early times, delivering to Agrippa his colleague the bundles of rods which belonged to an incumbent of the consulship, while he himself used the others.

to Occurrences 1%

When I further discerned that the two genealogies in Matthew and Luke were at variance, utterly irreconcilable,and both moreover nugatory, because they are genealogies of Joseph, who is denied to be the father of Jesus,on what ground of righteousness, which I could approve to God and my conscience, could I shut my eyes to this second fact?

above Occurrences 1%

" P. Forestus and Capivaccius forbid it to be taken in substance, but allow it in decoction or infusion, both which ways P. Monavius approves above all others, Epist.

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