Which preposition to use with crisises

of Occurrences 387%

He suddenly threw himself on his bed and gave way to a crisis of despair.

in Occurrences 207%

She had lived through many vicissitudes from the time of her marriage, when she arrived at the Chateau of St. Remy in the Department of Eure-et-Loire (where my husband, her eldest son, was born), passing through triumphal arches erected in honour of the young bride, to the last days when the fortunes of the family were diminished by revolutions and political and business crises in France.

like Occurrences 19%

Then the Duchess got up her Dutch spunk, and spoke out pretty freely, saying as much as if LEOPOLD were a tame sort of poodle, and that she ought to have been born to wear breeches, just to show him how a man should act in a great crisis like the present.

through Occurrences 18%

The terrible and sensational news that Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated, which was flashed over the wires on the morning of April 15, 1865 (forty years ago yesterday), was the most appalling announcement that had been made during the long crisis through which the country had just passed.

with Occurrences 16%

But there was a good deal of wrath, too, that a trader should have presumed so far, and I felt that things were gathering to a crisis with me.

at Occurrences 14%

He then instigated all the enemies of the empire simultaneously to attack the Franks and Saxons, at that crisis at war with each other, in 915, and while the Danes under Gorm the Old, and the Obotrites, destroyed Hamburg, immense hordes of Hungarians, Bohemians, and Sorbi laid the country waste as far as Bremen.

by Occurrences 9%

Land of an ancient civilization, prone to sudden bursts of enthusiasm, susceptible to rapid moods of discouragement, Italy, with all the infinite resources of the Latin spirit, has always overcome the most difficult crises by her wonderful adaptive power.

as Occurrences 9%

It is only in a somewhat strained and conventional sense that the term nodus, or knot, can be applied to the sort of crisis with which the modern drama normally deals; and if we do not naturally think of the crisis as a knot, we naturally do not think of its close as an unknotting.

for Occurrences 7%

" The death of Pericles himself, who directly or indirectly fell a victim to the prevailing pestilence, marked a grievous crisis for Athens in what was already become a measureless public woe.

after Occurrences 6%

" Things had come to this crisis after years of arbitrary power, and the humiliation of England in its king being a pensioner of Louis XIV.

on Occurrences 6%

About the middle of November, after General Gough's brilliant strokes on the Ancre, which gave us St. Pierre Divion, Beaucourt, and Beaumont Hamel, and took us up to the outskirts of Grandcourt, the Frankfurter Zeitung wrote"For us Germans the days of the crisis on the Somme are over.

to Occurrences 6%

At the same time it brightens the prospects of success of those influential circles whichimpelled by an overpowering impulse to deeds, and inspired by a diseased longing for prestigepress on from excitement to excitement, from daring to daring, and from crisis to crisis.

within Occurrences 5%

But he spoke of numerous distinct crises within forty years, when Prussia was on the verge of being drawn into a general European war, which diplomacy fortunately averted, and such as now must be warded off by being too strong for attack.

without Occurrences 4%

Their estates were less encumbered by debt, and they passed through each successive crisis without sustaining any noticeable injury.

over Occurrences 3%

The Shantung Settlement was not so evidently chargeable to secret negotiations as the crisis over the disposition of Fiume, but the decision was finally reached through that method.

into Occurrences 3%

" She was beginning to get hold of herself, to emerge from the emotional crisis into which this meeting had plunged her.

between Occurrences 3%

The entrance of Dr. Rank in the last act of A Doll's House is a wholly unnecessary interruption to the development of the crisis between Nora and Helmer.

from Occurrences 2%

But, between the suppression of slavery such as we hope will some time take place, and that which we should have been forced to fear, in case the South had carried it still further, is the distance which separates a hard crisis from a terrible catastrophe.

than Occurrences 2%

Nothing can show more forcibly the imminence and pressure of the crisis than words like these, not merely from Froude and his friends, but from such a man as Mr. Hugh James Rose.

during Occurrences 2%

The generality of the planters realized, without such a demonstration, that each year must bring its crop crisis during which an overindulgence by the laborers in the privileges of liberty might bring ruin to the employers.

along Occurrences 1%

Successive conflicts involve an indefinite volume of overhead costs, which grow with the intensity and extent of the expansive survival struggle, creating a series of crises along a path that leads to self-destruction and the return of the experimenters to a condition of pre-civilized self-containment.

among Occurrences 1%

At this crisis among the Jews, a hero arose in their midst as marvellous as Gustavus Adolphus.

against Occurrences 1%

Lastly, there is an attitude not unknown in the crisis against which I should particularly like to protest.

round Occurrences 1%

Master and disciple were as unlike as any two men could be; they were united by their sympathy in the great crisis round them, by their absorbing devotion to the cause of true religion.

before Occurrences 1%

To Jenieve herself, the crisis before her, so insignificant against the background of that historic island, was more important than massacre or conquest.

Which preposition to use with  crisises