Which preposition to use with developments

of Occurrences 2973%

It is this wish for growth, for the development of our powers, for a larger life for ourselves and for those who shall come after us.

in Occurrences 314%

Growth is development in right assertion; it is the assumption of legitimate responsibility and command.

from Occurrences 48%

Slow Thin Full New Small Tender Gentle Obscure Smooth True Grand Odd Sober Warm Heavy Particular Soft Yield Keen <Literal vs. Figurative Applications> One of the most interesting things to watch in the study of words is their development from a literal to a figurative application.

by Occurrences 25%

While it is true that the text of the instrument has suffered almost as little change as the Nicene Creed, yet it would be manifest error to suggest that in its development by practical application the Constitution has not undergone great changes.

at Occurrences 22%

It towers sublimely from every ridge and cañon of the range, at an elevation of from three to seven thousand feet above the sea, attaining most perfect development at a height of about 5000 feet.

as Occurrences 20%

If in the earliest years his will is in the hands of others, and he has the habit of obedience to the exclusion of all other habits, then his development as a self-reliant individual is arrested, and may be permanently weakened.

for Occurrences 18%

In order to secure free economic development for the German nation, we demand: "(a) The 'open door,' i.e., equal rights for commercial and such-like activities in all colonial territories.

on Occurrences 15%

With the Russian armies in full retreat and their double line of fortresses all fallen to the invader, the apparent calm on the Western front continued to be the marvel of the European campaign, as up to September 7 no development on the Western front indicated that any effort was being made to distract the Kaiser's attention from his victorious expedition into the territory of the Czar.

into Occurrences 14%

How can we best aid development into the wholeness or healthiness and the scope of sanity and wisdom?

with Occurrences 13%

Social Democracy has fought against this ominous development with all the forces at its command.

through Occurrences 13%

Afterwards the term was used to designate the different phases of development through which the Buddhist dogma passed, known as the mahâyâna, hînayâna, and madhyamayâna."

than Occurrences 12%

She was in nothing more valuable to my mental development than by her just measure of the relative importance of different considerations, which often protected me from allowing to truths I had only recently learnt to see, a more important place in my thoughts than was properly their due.

to Occurrences 11%

It is easy to show that although Froebel was pre-Darwinian, he had been in close touch with scientists who were working at theories of development, and that he was largely influenced by Krause, who applied the idea of organic development to all departments of social science.

during Occurrences 10%

Its pernicious influence, like that of alcohol, is peculiarly hurtful to the young, as the cell development during the years of growth is easily disturbed by noxious agents.

within Occurrences 10%

But all the more northerly part of this chain was unexplored in 1851, and of course there was room for almost any development within such wide limits. Warned by events in New South Wales, the governments of the other Australian colonies had made preparations for the crisis.

under Occurrences 10%

It is difficult to understand why no work in prose anterior to Herodotus is worthy of note, since the Greeks had attained a high civilization two hundred years before he appeared, and the language had reached a high point of development under Homer for more than five hundred years.

among Occurrences 9%

Whether, then, liberty is a privilege granted to a few, or a right to which all people are justly entitled, it is bootless to discuss; but its development among civilized nations is a worthy object of historical inquiry.

along Occurrences 7%

With that, he pulled out a rolled-up manuscript from his coat pocket with a flourish and began to read; "'Ladies and Gentlemen: I have called this emergency session of the Five Hundredth and Eighteenth Parliamentary Congress to inform you of some very disturbing developments along our northern border.

after Occurrences 6%

So startling were the rapid strides made by the colored people in their mental development after the revolutionary era that certain southerners who had not seriously objected to the enlightenment of the Negroes began to favor the half reactionary policy of educating them only on the condition that they should be colonized.

out Occurrences 3%

In addition to the above arrangements guaranteed by or arising out of the general treaty, there would probably be a periodical congress of delegates of the parliaments of the States belonging to the league, as a development out of the existing Interparliamentary Union.

between Occurrences 2%

There is, indeed, half a century of development between the two books, yet the germinal thought of the second may be detected in the first.

inside Occurrences 2%

The social order of the gentry, whose birth and development inside China we followed, had for the first time to defend itself against views and systems entirely opposed to it; for the Turkish and Mongol peoples who ruled northern China brought with them their traditions of a feudal nobility with privileges of birth and all that they implied.

before Occurrences 2%

A vast number of observations gathered by laboratory experimentalists as well as by those naturalists of the abnormal, physicians in active practice, prove that the construction of the individual both during development before maturity, and maintenance during maturity, his constitution, in short, is directed by the endocrine glands.

toward Occurrences 2%

If the object of our allegiance be a high one, if the ideal be a grand one, our lives are in a constant process of development toward that height, that grandeur.

towards Occurrences 2%

This office was set up by the eunuchs and the clique at their back, and was the first dictatorial organ created in the course of a development towards despotism that made steady progress in these years.

Which preposition to use with  developments