Which preposition to use with council

of Occurrences 1744%

The Brahmin immediately presented himself before the council of state, to remove the impression.

on Occurrences 209%

The man was sore harassed by the King's Government on one side and the Virginian Council on the other, and he treated every stranger as a foe.

in Occurrences 143%

They should have access to the garden and playground, and all the incitements to activity should be theresimilar to those of the Nursery School, or those provided by the London County Council in parks.

at Occurrences 112%

Carleton opened the melancholy little session of the new Legislative Council at Quebec on the very day Montgomery arrived at Ticonderogathe 17th of August.

with Occurrences 74%

The queen her mother was already up, and seated among her maids, spinning at her wheel, as the fashion was in those primitive times, when great ladies did not disdain housewifery: and the king her father was preparing to go abroad at that early hour to council with his grave senate.

for Occurrences 57%

The Edinburgh Provincial Council for the Training of Teachers opened another Free Kindergarten as a demonstration school for Froebelian methods, a practising school for students, and also as an experimental school, where attempts might be made to solve problems as to the education of neglected children under school age.

to Occurrences 32%

On the 10th of April he called a council to London to consult about the coronation of his son.

as Occurrences 18%

"Miss ANNIE P. LADD, of Augusta, Me., has been appointed by the governor and confirmed by the council as a justice of the peace.

by Occurrences 16%

If the latter should not before his death have named his own successor, the Council by a process of elimination is reduced to three, and these cast lots which shall name the new Autocrat from among the youths deemed worthy of the throne, of whom six are seldom living at the same time.

from Occurrences 15%

Pope Eugenius removes his council from Ferrara to Florence; here is signed a treaty for the ostensible union of the Latin and Greek churches.

over Occurrences 9%

" There had been quite a council over the letter, and parts of it had been read more than once by Mrs. Carey, but the children, though very sympathetic with Uncle Allan and loud in their exclamations of "Poor Julia!" had not suggested any remedy for the situation.

about Occurrences 6%

This act of power was complained of as an infringement of the great charter: yet the justiciary, in a Parliament summoned at Oxford, (for the great councils about this time began to receive that appellation,) made no scruple to grant, in the king's name, a renewal and confirmation of that charter.

under Occurrences 6%

France followed suit in reorganizing her war council under Premier Briand, also restricting the number of members to five, and General Joffre was succeeded in command of the armies of the north and the northeast by General Nivelle, commander of the French troops at Verdun, where notable victories were gained by the French in December, regaining almost all the ground lost during the previous operations of the year.

before Occurrences 5%

In common with all of his class, the fisherman had a vague idea of the existence, and of the attributes, of the council before which he was to appear; but his simple apprehension was far from comprehending the extent or the nature of functions that equally took cognizance of the most important interests of the Republic, and of the more trifling concerns of a patrician family.

during Occurrences 4%

Any Member of the League not represented on the Council shall be invited to send a Representative to sit as a member at any meeting of the Council during the consideration of matters specially affecting the interests of that Member of the League.

among Occurrences 4%

Sir Benedict being sick a-bed of his wound, Beltane sat in council among the oldest and wisest of the knights, and presently summoned Walkyn and Ulf, Roger and Jenkyn o' the Ford, speaking them on this wise: "Good comrades, list ye now!

between Occurrences 3%

The first great compromise answered to the initial difficulty of securing approximate equality of weight in the federal councils between states of unequal size.

into Occurrences 3%

After these words he retired with the members of his Council into the round room behind the tribunal, which could not be seen from the vestibule.

against Occurrences 3%

On the one hand, Jones in Dublin, and Monk in Ulster, concluded truces with O'Neil, that he might be in a better condition to oppose the common enemy; on the other, Inchiquin joined with Preston to support the authority of the council against O'Neil.

without Occurrences 3%

Anazeh says there can be no proper council without his being present, and that he will attend the council; but as for taking only two men, he has pledged his word to escort you with twenty men to El- Kerak.

than Occurrences 2%

There was no surer way to prevent me from bringing the subject again before the Council than by having the proposed resolution before him for action.

behind Occurrences 1%

"Next day they held a council behind the big barn, and they called in Uncle Redotherwise known as Big Red Saunders, or Chanta Seechee Red, which means 'Bad-heart Red' in Sioux language, and doesn't explain me by a durn sightto get the benefit of his valuable advice.

amid Occurrences 1%

Born in the mediaeval pontificate of Sixtus IV., brought up in the golden days of Lorenzo de' Medici, he survived the Franco-Spanish struggle for supremacy, watched the progress of the Reformation, and only died when a new Church and a new Papacy had been established by the Tridentine Council amid states sinking into the repose of decrepitude.

throughout Occurrences 1%

In this way he becomes a connecting link between the national authority at Christiania and the municipal councils throughout the kingdom, because certain measures of local interest are subject to restrictions by the national parliament, particularly those involving finances.

after Occurrences 1%

By the bye, do you remember that Jasper and his fond mamma and George had a family council after dinner?

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