Which preposition to use with powering

of Occurrences 11913%

Several I recognized almost immediately as mythological deities; others were strange to me, utterly strange, beyond the power of a human mind to conceive.

in Occurrences 1790%

No scheme for the right placing of men can be devised which does not place a great deal of power in the hand of a few leading men.

over Occurrences 825%

When I shook my body I seemed to have full power over the muscles of the back, and considerable power over those of the neck, but none over my limbs....

for Occurrences 419%

Thinkers are finding in the large life of religion a motive power for their thought, their growtha reason for their existencea forecast of their destiny.

to Occurrences 410%

We array the love of money against the love of power; or rather, one love of power to another.

on Occurrences 336%

"She is hastening rapidly to her grave, and no power on earth can save her.

by Occurrences 295%

Thought is the power by which we make it available for our own better living, and the future life of the race.

with Occurrences 257%

" In order to gain real knowledge of himself, of his power, a child needs to compare his power with that of others.

as Occurrences 243%

The waterfall sang in chorus, filling the old ice-fountain with its solemn roar, and seeming to increase in power as the night advancedfit voice for such a landscape.

from Occurrences 217%

We cannot take away power from any childhe shall move the affairs of nationsbut we can direct this love of power, or crush it; strengthen it, or weaken it; turn it toward the highest help of man, or deflect it to tyranny, cruelty, and crime.

at Occurrences 173%

It is reported that several of our leading financiers have openly indicated their dissatisfaction with the policy of those in power at Washington.

than Occurrences 150%

The articles on Free Trade and Protection in the daily papers have hitherto been regarded as the climax of all that utterly wearies the long-suffering human soul; but I tell you, as a candid friend, that they are but little more depressing and jading to the vital powers than your unceasing mention of life-insurance.

into Occurrences 101%

They could not stop the Republican wave (nothing could) but they might have controlled it and directed it instead of standing aloof and throwing the power into the hands of the Left.

under Occurrences 71%

And if the fight had begun at that moment no power under heaven could have saved Lord Nick from the frenzy of the little man.

within Occurrences 58%

The Victor is he who, in his own life, unites these two things: a great longing after the god-like, which makes him yearn for virtue,and the divine power within him, through which and by which he is triumphant over time and death and sin.

against Occurrences 53%

He feels himself a self-directing power, and at times asserts this power against the will of those who would make him do what he does not want to do.

without Occurrences 49%

It has enabled the nation to exercise tolerance within, and develop splendour and power without, which in their turn have made Britannia the mistress of the world's waterways, and the British the first colonial nation in the world.

behind Occurrences 45%

" He is interested in the immaterial world suggested by the mysteries of woods and gardens, he has a dim conception that there is some life beyond the visible, he feels a power behind life and he reveals this in his early questions.

among Occurrences 38%

Lepidus, as I have stated, had power among the three only in name, and often was not recorded in the documents even to this extent.

between Occurrences 38%

From the beginning these two factions had been but imperfectly welded together, because their tendencies were different; but now the struggle for power between Pericles and Thucydides drew a sharp line of demarcation between them, and one was called the party of the Many, the other that of the Few.

above Occurrences 37%

He thinks of no unseen God or powers above him.

beyond Occurrences 32%

They are curious about birth and death and all origins: thunder is terrifying, the sea is enthralling, the wind is mysterious, the sky is immense, and all suggest a power beyond: in this the children are reproducing the race experience as expressed in myths, when power was embodied in a god or goddess.

per Occurrences 31%

Q.Can you tell the duty of an engine when you know its consumption of coal per horse power per hour?

through Occurrences 30%

The governor, with the consent of the Senate, was to make war, conclude all treaties, make all appointments, pardon all offences, with the full power through his negative of saying what laws should be passed and which enforced.

during Occurrences 17%

Odo, Bishop of Baieux, the king's uterine brother, whom he had created Earl of Kent, and intrusted with a great share of power during his whole reign, had amassed immense riches; and agreeably to the usual progress of human wishes, he began to regard his present acquisitions but as a step to farther grandeur.

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