Which preposition to use with ministers

OF Occurrences 1989%

AS MINISTER OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION IV.

to Occurrences 765%

We had known him in Rome in the old days of Pio Nono's reign, where he had a great position as Prussian minister to the Vatican.

in Occurrences 340%

There is a large amount of intensely interesting, though spiritually undigested, material for a minister in a book like William James's Varieties of Religious Experience. 7.

at Occurrences 324%

Quai d'Orsay, description of house of Foreign Minister at the; removal of Waddingtons to; receiving and entertaining at; large ball given at; English visitors at; view from, on cold winter nights; departure from; formal visit to Madame de Freycinet at.

for Occurrences 140%

I suppose I should have understood much more if I had read the papers regularly, but I didn't begin to do that until W. had been minister for some time, and then worked myself into a nervous fever at all the opposition papers said about him.

of Occurrences 85%

Other good men may exist, who, from motives of innocent mistake, or of mere inadvertency, may fail to exhibit that animated regard to his exemplary character, which assuredly it has merited from all men, and which the Ministers of Religion may most properly display.

from Occurrences 75%

Who is there that tries to shield the minister from sorrow and from pain?

with Occurrences 55%

Lords Sydney and Grenville, the two cabinet ministers with whom Carleton had most to do, were both sensible and sympathetic.

on Occurrences 51%

I was dismayed at first with the number of letters received from all over France asking my intercession with the minister on every possible subject from a "monument historique" to be restored, to a pension given to an old schoolmaster no longer able to work, with a large family to support.

unto Occurrences 29%

'Tis true I am outlaw and no man may minister unto me, yet be merciful, give me to eatO gentle Christ, aid me" "How!" cried the friar, "dare ye speak that name, ye that are breaker of laws human and divine, ye that are murderer, dare ye lift those bloody hands to heaven?

as Occurrences 25%

He used without fail to inform the new Minister as to the old mode of administration.

under Occurrences 21%

All the ministers under heaven cannot take sin out of the world, nor uproot sin altogether from the heart of man: the plague conies in at birth.

by Occurrences 17%

One old man, a minister by his dress, sat apart on a stone bench, and with closed eyes communed with himself.

among Occurrences 12%

She had early renounced the world and its fascinations; left Bath, where her mother and sister Christiana Gurney resided; became eventually a minister among Friends; and found a congenial retreat for many years at Colebrook Dale.

than Occurrences 10%

Your lordships cannot but observe, that I make use rather of the term minister than that of the administration, which others are so desirous to substitute in its place, either to elude all inquiry into the management of our affairs, or to cover their own shameful dependence.

in Occurrences 9%

In its memoranda of 1908 and 1909, on the interference of the Russian Council of Ministers in Finnish affairs, the Senate suggested that, in case the procedure under the ordinance of 1891 were not satisfactory, a committee of Russian and Finnish members should be appointed to discuss a modus procedendi of such a nature that the Constitution of Finland should not be violated.

without Occurrences 8%

He lived in the White House more like a Virginian planter than a great public functionary, wearing plain clothes, and receiving foreign ministers without the usual formalities, much to their chagrin.

like Occurrences 7%

Awakened rudely in the middle of the night, and relieved of his post as Minister like the sentinels of the Assembly, the worthy man, astounded, and rubbing his eyes, muttered, "Eh!

during Occurrences 6%

The bronze figure in front of the Council House is that of Lord Herbert of Lea, better known perhaps as Sydney Herbert, Minister during the Crimean War.

about Occurrences 5%

I must speak to the minister about it.

near Occurrences 5%

The necessity of this step will be made known to His Britannic Majesty through the minister plenipotentiary of the United States in London; and it would indicate a want of the confidence due to a Government which so well understands and exacts what becomes foreign ministers near it not to infer that the misconduct of its own representative will be viewed in the same light in which it has been regarded here.

to Occurrences 5%

Aberdeen says the King spoke very well to the foreign Ministers to-day.

before Occurrences 5%

That night Amelia made the boy read the story of Samuel to her, and how Hannah, his mother, having weaned him, brought him to Eli the High Priest to minister before the Lord.

on Occurrences 4%

" A third and most important encroachment by the Russian Council of Ministers on the autonomy of Finland was also carried out at the instigation of M. Stolypin.

with Occurrences 3%

A letter will be written to our Ministers with the great powers stating our reasons for doing so.

Which preposition to use with  ministers