Which preposition to use with nomination

of Occurrences 133%

All were correct, but most of them were visibly antagonistic to the Republic and the Republicans (which they considered much accentuee since the nomination of Grevythe women rather more so than the men).

for Occurrences 50%

An old white hat and a slouchy old overcoat will insure you a nomination for the office of Governor.

to Occurrences 22%

There was a great amount of patronage attached to his ministry, nominations to all the universities, lycees, schools, etc., and, what was most agreeable to me, boxes at all the government theatres,the Grand Opera, Opera Comique, Francais, Odeon, and Conservatoire.

by Occurrences 15%

His holiness said that, but for the royal nomination, he would have deprived them of their office; but that he revoked the power he had given to the sovereign to nominate others, supposing that fit persons would be found among those nominated by the general or the provincial of the Dominicans, to whom the privilege belonged, and in prejudice of whose privilege the former nomination by Ferdinand and Isabella had been allowed.

in Occurrences 14%

Once, too, when he had so well manipulated the district delegates that he was sure of nomination in the convention, Senator Sprague had hurried home from Washington and defeated him just as the prize was in his grasp.

as Occurrences 14%

He had resisted his nomination as Mayor as long as he could, and accepted it only as an imperative duty.

from Occurrences 5%

In the campaign of 1874 he received the nomination from his party for State Senator.

at Occurrences 3%

In addition to the papers which were transmitted with his nomination at the last session, I have received others from the most respectable sources in the State of Mississippi, bearing the fullest testimony to his fitness for the office in question.

with Occurrences 2%

I had and I have their friendship, their devotion, their support; and when I formed the first Ministry of Independent Hungary, not only a full half of the new Ministry I entrusted to Roman Catholics, but especially I nominated a Roman Catholic Bishop to be Minister of public instruction, and all the Protestants of my country hailed the nomination with applause.

before Occurrences 1%

Was an unsuccessful candidate for the Presidential nomination before the Democratic national convention June 1, 1852.

on Occurrences 1%

Prior to his nomination on the State ticket Meigs had been best known as the most astute criminal lawyer in the State, his astuteness lying not so much in his ability as a pleader as in a certain oratorical gift by which he was able to convince not only a jury but the public of the entire innocence of his client.

Which preposition to use with  nomination