Which preposition to use with efficacious

in Occurrences 43%

"We have no capital punishment," says he; "for, from all we learn, it is not more efficacious in preventing crime, than other punishments which are milder; and we prefer making the example to offenders a lasting one.

than Occurrences 24%

No conservative propaganda could have been more efficacious than the vision of the truth.

as Occurrences 10%

The lesser celandine (Ranunculus ficaria) is known in many country places as the pilewort, because its peculiar tuberous root was long thought to be efficacious as a remedial agent.

to Occurrences 4%

It is with such feelings that I would beg an interest in your prayers, that the precious blood which the Divine Saviour has been willing to shed for us and other sinners, may be found efficacious to me in that moment when I shall depart from this vale of tears; for my age admonishes that this time is not far distant.

against Occurrences 3%

Each infective disease has its special toxine, and for the destruction of each the blood prepares its particular antitoxine; possibly, however, some of the antitoxines may be efficacious against more than one kind of toxine, for there are physicians who are convinced that vaccination is a temporary preventive of whooping-cough.

for Occurrences 3%

It may be called the "Old Soldier's Resort," as the waters are specially efficacious for gunshot wounds.

of Occurrences 3%

Happily the feat need not be attempted; I had the game, in which troubles may be played away at least beyond the necessity for analyzing themthe game which requires two decks and is to be played alonethe most efficacious of those devices for the solitary which cards afford.

at Occurrences 2%

Perhaps most legal codes may be simple and efficacious at their first institution, and the circumstance of their being encumbered with forms which render them complex and expensive, may be the natural consequence of length of time and change of manners.

with Occurrences 1%

I would go down and see them did I not know that your words would be more efficacious with them than my own.

on Occurrences 1%

He was not a man who would have been left out in the cold in silence, and perhaps the feeling that such was the case had been as efficacious on his behalf as his well-attested popularity.

before Occurrences 1%

Love is simply an extension of this process-making it efficacious before marriage and thus quintupling its importance.

under Occurrences 1%

"If ever mind your dress," said Lady Bearwarden, resuming, now the crisis was past, her habitual air of authority, conscious that it would be most efficacious under the circumstances.

by Occurrences 1%

It has never entered into the minds of the managers of these enterprises that a man disposed to give away five hundred dollars could make his contributions to the public welfare more efficacious by giving the whole to one institution instead of dividing it among twenty.

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