Which preposition to use with mitigating

to Occurrences 5%

Hot-water cans put in at Plymouth mitigated to some extent the iciness of the compartment.

by Occurrences 3%

And, to humor the grasping selfishness of Manchester and Glasgow, Lord North met the demands of the Irish with a refusal of which every word of his speech on the propositions to America was the severest condemnation, and which he sought to mitigate by some new regulations in favor of the linen trade, to which the English and Scotch manufacturers made no objection, since they had no linen factories.

in Occurrences 2%

And I submit to the wisdom of Congress whether a more enlarged revisal of the criminal code be not expedient for the purpose of mitigating in certain cases penalties which were adopted into it antecedent to experiment and examples which justify and recommend a more lenient policy.

with Occurrences 2%

[3400]"Fear and sorrow, therefore, are especially to be avoided, and the mind to be mitigated with mirth, constancy, good hope; vain terror, bad objects are to be removed, and all such persons in whose companies they be not well pleased."

for Occurrences 1%

Now that, I hope, mitigates for you the annoyancethe distress of mind.

against Occurrences 1%

V. countervail, oppose; mitigate against; rebut &c (refute) 479; subvert &c (destroy) 162; cheek, weaken; contravene; contradict &c (deny) 536; tell the other side of the story, tell another story, turn the scale, alter the case; turn the tables; cut both ways; prove a negative.

as Occurrences 1%

This outrageous parental selfishness and tyranny, so detrimental to the interests of the human race, was gradually mitigated as civilization progressed in Europe.

after Occurrences 1%

Wieck's enmity to Schumann had been somewhat mitigated after two years of meeting no opposition.

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