Which preposition to use with law

of Occurrences 12543%

The law of spiritual gravitation is, that by all the changing impulses of our nature we are drawn upward unto Him.

in Occurrences 1431%

I began the study of law in Angelica, the county seat of Alleghany county, and as it was a good many years ago, it is fair to assume that I was a good many years younger than I am now, and that the country in that region was younger too.

for Occurrences 587%

For this, laid a firm foundation of law for Rome, adorned it with buildings, and all thatmy lords, words fail me; there are none can rise to the height of my indignation.

to Occurrences 374%

Caligula murdered his father-in-law, Claudius his son-in-law to boot.

by Occurrences 228%

The laws by which two objects, so far apart, operate on each other, have been, as yet, but imperfectly developed, and the wilder their freaks, the more they are the objects of wonder and admiration.

against Occurrences 217%

There's law against all this, and I had warned them long before that I would stand no such nonsense.

on Occurrences 209%

" "The law on one side, the robbers on the other, and you two alone together!"

as Occurrences 194%

It had been intended that Havelock should follow the law as a profession; and he was studying with this end in view when his father stopped the necessary supplies of money, and he had to turn to some other occupation for a living.

with Occurrences 173%

He had studied law with the late Senator Sprague, and, at his death, from partner succeeded to his lucrative law practice.

at Occurrences 152%

Like me in face and lovely grace, like me in voice and song, He'll bid the laws at length speak out that have been dumb so long, Will give unto the weary world years prosperous and bright.

from Occurrences 93%

But the people will say God's Word be no good, if it keeps the law from punishing those who do wrong.

into Occurrences 86%

The Government of Italy has been preserved from overthrow, not alone by its constituted authorities, but by a band of resolute men, called the "fascisti," who have taken the law into their own hands, as did the vigilance committees in western mining camps, to put down worse disorders.

under Occurrences 83%

We are told, on what seems to be the highest legal authority of the next century, that he issued in his fourth year a commission of inquiry into the national customs, and obtained from sworn representatives of each county a declaration of the laws under which they wished to live.

than Occurrences 55%

"General, you compliment me rather too highly, for I don't know any more about law than a government mule does about book-keeping," said I.

without Occurrences 41%

It is unquestionably a palpable negation of majority rule, for as no measure can become a law without the concurrence of the Senatenow numbering ninety-six Senatorsa combination of the little States, whoso aggregate population is not a fifth of the American people, can defeat the will of the remaining four-fifths.

unto Occurrences 33%

The general spirit of the westerners was that of the exploiting pioneer in a virgin wildernessa law unto itself alone.

about Occurrences 31%

These pettifoggers so turned and twisted the law about for the sake of screwing out the maximum of fees that Carleton pointedly refused to appoint Livius as a member of the Legislative Council.

within Occurrences 30%

To speak of it as "an approximation based on our knowledge of the time in which similar results on a smaller scale have been produced by existing natural laws within the historical period," is a very inadequate qualification, especially when we have just been told that "here, at any rate, we are on comparatively certain ground, ... these are measurable facts which have been ascertained by competent observers."

over Occurrences 24%

The university leader of the future is the man who shall set laws over household accounts and who shall rule over such simple things as what best to eat and buy.

like Occurrences 23%

I think it, sir, not improper to declare, that I would by force oppose the execution of a law like this; that I would bar my doors and defend them; that I would call my neighbours to my assistance; and treat those who should attempt to enter without my consent, as thieves, ruffians, and murderers.

among Occurrences 20%

It became an established law among us, that we should kill no more game or fish than we needed for supplies, whatever their abundance or our temptation might be.

before Occurrences 14%

Of this kind is the law before us, a law enforced by the necessity of our affairs, and drawn up with no other intention than to secure the publick happiness, and produce that success which every man's interest must prompt him to desire.

throughout Occurrences 11%

The people of the country were strongly in favor of Abd-el-Kader; and when their Sultan, after a French bombardment of Tangiers and Mogador, made a treaty with France by which the Algerian hero was "placed beyond the pale of the law throughout the Empire of Morocco, as well as in Algeria," and was to be "pursued by main force by the Moroccans on their own territory," the Moorish population was filled with resentment.

between Occurrences 11%

The ultimate law between man and man, according to Shakespeare, is the law of pity.

during Occurrences 9%

The similarity of these institutions to the customs of the ancient Germans, to the practice of the other northern conquerors, and to the Saxon laws during the Heptarchy, prevents us from regarding Alfred as the sole author of this plan of government; and leads us rather to think, that, like a wise man, he contented himself with reforming, extending, and executing the institutions which he found previously established.

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