Which preposition to use with governments

of Occurrences 3494%

I was out of the active government of affairs, with leisure on my hands, and my thoughts naturally turned with curiosity again to the laboratory in the valley.

in Occurrences 1271%

He was in Paris at the time, and was in the garden a few hours after the executionremembered quite well the wall against which the marshal stoodand the comments of the crowd, not very flattering for the Government in executing one of France's bravest and most brilliant soldiers.

for Occurrences 421%

While they had created a central government for certain specified purposes, they yet regarded themselves as sovereign nations, and their representatives in the Senate were, in a sense, their ambassadors.

to Occurrences 291%

This example has been given at length to illustrate the relation of government to freedom.

at Occurrences 275%

We often hear of a man's energies being taxed; but, so far as the matter is apparent to the naked eye, it is difficult to see whose energies are taxed for the good of the government at the present day.

on Occurrences 225%

She had heard that W. had refused the London Embassy, was afraid it was a mistake, and that the winter in Paris would be a difficult one for himhe would certainly be in opposition to the Government on all sorts of questionsand if he remained in Paris he would naturally go to the Senate and vote.

by Occurrences 224%

There was every reason to suppose that civil government by a governor and council would be the next best thing.

with Occurrences 178%

We will kill him and establish a provisional government with myself at its head.

as Occurrences 157%

They have had thorough training in government as Poor Law Guardians, District and County Councilors, members of School Boards.

under Occurrences 143%

Haldimand had carried on the government under its provisions for the following six.

from Occurrences 116%

On the 22nd of September 1766 Carleton arrived at Quebec and began his thirty years' experience as a Canadian administrator by taking over the government from Colonel Irving, who had held it since Murray's departure in the spring.

without Occurrences 66%

Shorn of their pretensions in Armenia and the countries south of Taurus, the Turks may experiment in the art of government without the tragedies which their present domination has brought upon mankind.

over Occurrences 62%

He communicated directly with the home government over his superior's head and was not rebuked by the minister to whom he wroteHenry Dundas, afterwards first Viscount Melville.

into Occurrences 59%

This system was in part due to the confident belief of the framers of the Constitution in the Montesquieu doctrine of the division of government into three independent departmentslegislative, executive and judicial; but experience has shown how difficult it is to apply this doctrine in its literal rigidity.

during Occurrences 49%

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.

against Occurrences 48%

The counties in solid array addressed protests to the Government against the illegal act and in behalf of Kossuth, who continued to publish the paper in spite of the inhibition.

than Occurrences 39%

For nearly a century and a half it gave the Peloponnesos a larger measure of orderly government than the country had ever known before, without infringing upon local liberties.

within Occurrences 28%

It is clear that four years before a Philadelphia merchant, one Peletiah Webster, had published a brochure proposing a scheme of dual sovereignty, under which the citizens would owe a double allegianceone to the constituent States within the sphere of their reserved powers, and one to a federated government within the sphere of its delegated powers.

of Occurrences 26%

Your Government justifies and excuses such measures; therefore Americans have been forced to conclude that your Government is less civilised than are the Governments of America, England, and France, which forbid such conduct.

through Occurrences 25%

"We have borne with their present government through all these bitter months because of that friendship, exercising a patience and forbearance which would otherwise have been impossible.

like Occurrences 22%

They were succeeded by a second set of ten, who, for the next year at least, were to conduct the government like their predecessors.

towards Occurrences 19%

Listen to the pathetic conclusion of the Belgian reply: "Before God and before man, the Belgian Government has no hesitation in giving this as its opinion of the conduct of the German Government towards the Belgian nation: 'He is twice guilty who violates the rights of others and then attempts, with singular audacity, to justify himself by imputing to his victim faults that were never committed.'

among Occurrences 18%

They looked on it as merely a family affair, an arrangement made for the convenience of government among the descendants of the great Charles.

after Occurrences 16%

The Archbishop of Cologne, Anno, assumes the reins of government after seizing the young emperor Henry IV. 1066.

toward Occurrences 16%

The Highlanders a hundred years ago were viewed by the English with sentiments nearly similar to those with which the Puritan settlers of New England looked upon the Indians,at any rate, as freebooters, robbers, and murderers, who were dangerous to civilization; and the severities of the English government toward these lawless clans, both as outlaws and as foes of the Hanoverian succession, were generally condoned by public opinion.

Which preposition to use with  governments