Which preposition to use with elect

to Occurrences 254%

In 1884 he was elected to the newly founded professorship of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Cambridge.

in Occurrences 94%

The parish officers, including overseers of the poor, assessors, and way-wardens, are still elected in vestry-meeting by the freemen of the township.

for Occurrences 75%

So Claudius was led out, and the first to be asked his opinion was Father Janus: he had been made consul elect for the afternoon of the next first of July,[Footnote: Perhaps an allusion to the shortening of the consul's term, which was done to give more candidates a chance of the honour.]

of Occurrences 53%

The hour cometh, yea, it is at hand, when the elect of the earth, meaning me and twothree others, will be enthroned above the Gentiles, and Dagon and Baal will be cast down.

as Occurrences 33%

"I think," said Fletcher senior, rising to his feet when this interruption had ceased, and looking round with a foxy smile on his face, "that, with all due respect to the gentlemen who have been elected as prefects, it is a great pity that the doctor should not have consented to confirm the choice of the school, and reappoint Thurston.

at Occurrences 23%

With the sanction of thirty bishops, an antipope, Guibert, was elected at Brixen.

from Occurrences 22%

"It means he is a great criminala really great criminalone of the elect from whom crime has no secrets.

on Occurrences 22%

Suppose the President had unlimited power over our foreign relations and that within the next ten years an American, whose parents were born in any European nation, was elected on purely domestic issues, he could, with his assured four years of power, bring about a new alignment of nations and shake the political equilibrium of the world.

into Occurrences 11%

In this, as in many other cases, he acted very arbitrarily; for he elected into the senate whomsoever he pleased, and conferred the franchise in a manner equally arbitrary.

under Occurrences 11%

But all this proved insufficient, and as soon as the National Assembly, elected under the new constitution, met, Kossuth, who had been the life and soul of the Government during this trying and critical period, called upon the nation to raise large armies for the defence of the country.

with Occurrences 6%

Their first minister, after the removal, was a certain Mr. Mc.Kenzie, who stimulated the elect with many good things, and eventually died.

by Occurrences 6%

In default of this, the choice devolves upon the Ruma Bechara, who elect by a majority.

without Occurrences 4%

Then Marcus Duillius, tribune of the commons, brought before the people and the people enacted, that whoever left the people without tribunes, and whoever caused a magistrate to be elected without appeal, should be punished with stripes and beheaded.

before Occurrences 4%

But this able master was, I think, not elected before last February; and my visit happened, if I mistake not, in November.

against Occurrences 3%

Will you not send out against the pirates one, now an ex-consul, whom before he could yet properly hold office you elected against Sertorius?

after Occurrences 3%

It was the first time, doubtless, that such a doctrine had ever been mentioned to English electors; and the fact that I was elected after proposing it, gave the start to the movement which has since become so vigorous, in favour of women's suffrage.

out Occurrences 3%

"God cannot be a reflection from human kings where there are no kings; nor a president elected out of a polytheistic society of gods, where there is as yet no polytheism; nor an ideal first ancestor where men do not worship their ancestors."

among Occurrences 3%

But may not Christ have His elect among them?

amidst Occurrences 2%

Yet an assemblage of the worst and most daring men from every faction, elected amidst massacres and proscription, the moment they are collected together, declare, on the proposal of Collot d'Herbois, a profligate strolling player, that France shall be a republic.

over Occurrences 2%

We rolled the remains of the elect over the cliff into the river, and also resumed our course.

between Occurrences 2%

D'Aubremé's Dutch-Belgian infantry-brigade was prevented from running off when the Imperial Guard began their charge, only because Vandeleur's cavalry-brigade was in their rear, with even the squadron-intervals closed, so that they had to elect between the French bayonet and the English sabre.

within Occurrences 2%

The honorary and corresponding members, elected within the same period, were the Dean of Middleham; T.W. Coke, Esq., member of parliament, of Holkham, in Norfolk; and the Rev. William Leigh, who has been before mentioned, of Little Plumstead, in the same county.

during Occurrences 2%

He held his exalted office only for one term, while his rivals were re-elected during the twenty-four succeeding years of our national history,all disciples and friends of Jefferson, who followed out the policy he had inaugurated.

above Occurrences 1%

Beside the pleasant intoxication of the semi-trance, I felt a rare joy in the knowledge that I was elected above other men to be their interpreter.

throughout Occurrences 1%

The work was progressing; the treaties of offensive and defensive alliance had been followed by the creation of a new Customs' Union, and it was a further step when at Bismarck's proposal a Parliament consisting of members elected throughout the whole of Germany was summoned at Berlin for the management of matters connected with the tariff.

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