Which preposition to use with grievances

of Occurrences 93%

Bruce, whom champagne quickly saddened, became vaguely reminiscent and communicative about old, dead, forgotten grievances of the past, while Vincy, who was a little shocked at what he saw (and he always saw everything), did his very best, just saving the entertainment from being a too disastrous frost.

against Occurrences 72%

" "Or," put in Kelson, "he'll have a grievance against you, and accuse you of trying to burk the mystery.

to Occurrences 31%

Turkey said: "We will submit Italy's grievance to any tribunal that Europe cares to name, and abide by the result."

in Occurrences 18%

It so chanced that during this day the rations dealt out to us were smaller than before, and this gave the fool croakers an opportunity of airing their grievances in fine style.

by Occurrences 10%

I was drawn after a while from the fierce and burning sense of my own grievances by a querulous voice quite close to me.

before Occurrences 9%

Nothing daunted, he went amongst the prisoners, and soon persuaded them to go back to their cells peaceably, promising to bring their grievances before the authorities.

with Occurrences 8%

He continued to nurse his grievance with all the pertinacity of a Mahratta; but at the same time he professed a great love for European society, and was profuse in his hospitalities to English officers.

of Occurrences 7%

[Sidenote: Grievances of the Latins and allies.]

for Occurrences 7%

The grievance for which the remedy is proposed cannot frequently occur; for it is not probable that in a time of naval preparations, any man qualified for the service should be rejected, since the officers gain nothing by their refusal.

on Occurrences 7%

And he makes a complaint against him to the effect that he restored some of the exiles and finds fault with him because he did not secure the recall of his uncle; as if any one believes that he would not have restored him first of all, if he had been able to recall whomsoever he pleased, since there was no grievance on either side between them, as this speaker himself knows.

from Occurrences 5%

"I'm not so sure it will be necessary, after all," said their father, who seemed to have dismissed Annie's grievance from his mind for the present.

at Occurrences 5%

Just as human morality has overcome the war of all against all; just as the individual had to accustom himself to seek redress of his grievances at the hands of the State after blood feuds and duels had been banished by civil peace, so in their development will the nations discover ways and means to settle budding conflicts not by means of wars, but in some other regulated fashion, irrespective of what each of us individually may think.

among Occurrences 3%

" There were many grievances among the Indians.

between Occurrences 3%

How far may the supreme court of the world attend to grievances between subject and sovereign? Such cases are highly probable, and no large, vague propositions about the "self-determination" of peoples can meet all the cases.

like Occurrences 2%

How many of the men of that motley and ill-governed I.W.W. had grievances like Bradford's?

under Occurrences 2%

Her style of day-nagging was, to be explicit, to maintain perfect silence as to the grievance under which she sufferedindeed, this was often a profound secret from the first to the last; to adopt the look and bearing of a Christian martyr on the way to the stake, and to keep this demonstration up for days without a gleam of interruption.

than Occurrences 2%

And now, upon the first offering to ease you, you fly into a passion, and pretend to make that a greater grievance than t'other:

through Occurrences 1%

The agreement was based on provisions for a redress of Cuban grievances through greater civil, political, and administrative privileges for the Cubans, with forgetfulness of the past and amnesty for all then under sentence for political offences.

as Occurrences 1%

In employing circles the rise of wages was sometimes referred to with an air of grievance as due to the "monopoly of labor," as if the economic situation here, enabling the wage-earners (millions of them immigrants), to get a higher competitive wage when immigration temporarily was diminished, constituted a monopoly. § 8.

without Occurrences 1%

The Portuguese alone bore their grievances without retaliation, Bosman said, because their goods were too poor to find markets elsewhere.

Which preposition to use with  grievances