Which preposition to use with controlling

of Occurrences 1832%

He acknowledges their control of his musical self by his efforts to interpret their work to others, and to create new works which shall be inspired by their ideals.

over Occurrences 400%

Such control over the spirit of man is that of the Church over the social body; it stirs the spiritual aspiration of man, it directs his ambition.

in Occurrences 132%

" "Nine things there are of which the superior man should be mindful:to be clear in vision, quick in hearing, genial in expression, respectful in demeanor, true in word, serious in duty, inquiring in doubt, firmly self-controlled in anger, just and fair when the way to success opens out before him.

for Occurrences 33%

"I must keep control for some time yet," he said.

as Occurrences 33%

So one may list: Infancy as the epoch of the thymus Childhood as the epoch of the pineal Adolescence as the epoch of the gonads Maturity as the epoch of whatever gland is left in control as the result of the life struggle.

by Occurrences 25%

The school is not for the righteous but for the so-called sinner, who is only a child learning self-control by experience.

at Occurrences 21%

One of the glands, the thyroid, for example, will show, by the traces it has left upon the earliest developing features, that it was in control at the very earliest dates of his history, while other signs will disclose the more recent influence of the adrenal or of the pituitary.

with Occurrences 19%

Some horses have been accustomed to be driven on the check, and the curb irritates them; others, with harder mouths, cannot be controlled with the slight leverage this affords; he must, therefore, accommodate the horses as he best can.

to Occurrences 19%

He was at that point of passion which dulls the most self-controlled to all sense of propriety.

on Occurrences 18%

With all this duplication on the one hand, and absentee-control on the other, Main Street was a street of underlingsclerks and salespeople and delivery men.

from Occurrences 16%

It will be well to discriminate between the occasions, both in the Nursery School and in the transition and junior classes, when a child should be free to learn by experience and when he should be controlled from without.

through Occurrences 15%

It would be perfectly easy, if needful, to regulate all clocks by mechanical control through the electric network extended all over the face of the planet; but the perfect accuracy of each individual timepiece renders any such check needless.

than Occurrences 13%

Byron had, on occasion, more self-control than Burns, who yielded to every thirst or gust, and could never have lived the life of the soldier at Mesolonghi; but partly owing to meanness, partly to a sound instinct, his memory has been more severely dealt with.

under Occurrences 7%

The German circulation has lost all control under the force of internal needs, and Germany is threatened with failure.

without Occurrences 5%

Consequently, in a dynamometer in this simple form more or less violent oscillations of the weights are set up, which cannot be directly controlled without impairing the accuracy of the dynamometer.

into Occurrences 4%

The revival meetin' is an orgie of the soul, a spiritual debaucha dropping from sane and sensible control into eroticism.

among Occurrences 3%

Combinations and variations of control among the adrenals and thyroid, pituitary or thymus, and so on, occur, with effects that are sometimes additive, reinforcing a particular trait of the person, and at others conflicting, and neutralizing.

within Occurrences 2%

She felt that the time was opportune to plant the seed of self-control within the young heart.

of Occurrences 2%

How nice it would be if we had a biological method of controlling of pests.

than Occurrences 2%

But is it not a matter of deep regret, that the place, in which our national laws are madethat the place from which the sentiment and fashion of the whole country derive so much of their tone and directionshould cherish a system, which you have often admitted, is at war with the first principles of our religion and civil polity;[A] and the influences of which are no less pervading and controlling than corrupting?

as Occurrences 2%

Unaccustomed to exhibit his feelings upon this, the profoundest and most sacred of subjects, he was yet penetrated to his inmost soul by a sense of his own weakness and dependence on divine support; and, indeed, it may be questioned whether any other element of the great soldier's character was so deep-seated and controlling as his spirit of love to God.

until Occurrences 2%

History has not on record a more colossal diplomatic feat than this treaty, by which Europe has been neatly divided into two sections: victors and vanquished; the former being authorized to exercise on the latter complete control until the fulfilment of terms which, even at an optimistic point valuation, would require at least thirty years to materialize.

before Occurrences 2%

"Oh yes, oh yes," he said, looking up the valley appraisingly at the great volume of the smoke, "with a hundred and fifty men there, almost at once, they'll have it under control before long.

inside Occurrences 1%

Didn't he know that unless he came quickly Malet-Marsac would either leap on his horse and ride it till it fell, or else lose control inside the jail and either burst into tears, faint, orgoing madput up a fight for his friend there in the jail itself, snatch weapons, get back to back with him and die fighting then and thereor, later, on the same scaffold?

after Occurrences 1%

Scattering the smouldering leaves, beating out the fire with any sort of thing they could snatch up in their excitement, they managed to get the flames under control after a little while.

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