Which preposition to use with relations
It is not technical creeds for which the Church as a whole stands, but for certain vital principles which concern the life of the soul, and its relation to God and man.
Mercy is the requiring of obedience to law; it is not a cajoling training in law-defiance, which shall one day break the mother's heart and upset the social relations of the world.
Of the real character of this lady, so famous in literature, and her true relations with Boccaccio, little that is certain is known.
All the fun of the winter might depend on a friendly relation between Pymeut and the camp.
I might also spare you GOULD and some of my relations in case you were very short of men, and had some very perilous positions to fill up.
The Germans' love of honour and family has touched the American heart in a tender spot, and many of my acquaintances admit that with no other foreigners do they establish such intimate and affectionate relations as with their German friends.
Well, I suppose I did put your relations on your track.
His artless talk and answers very likely inclined this gentleman in his favour, for next day Mr. Holt said Harry should ride behind him, and not with the French lackey; and all along the journey put a thousand questions to the childas to his foster-brother and relations at Ealing; what his old grandfather had taught him; what languages he knew; whether he could read and write, and sing, and so forth.
Prolonged Battle of Verdun the Most Terrible in History Enormous Losses on Both SidesSubmarine Activity Imperils Relations of America and Germany.
But we have seen that a general diminution of warfare is rendered possible only by the union of small political groups into larger groups that are kept together by community of interests, and that can adjust their mutual relations by legal discussion without coming to blows.
It made a queer relation for her; a relation that struck her at this moment as less edifying, less natural and graceful than it would have been even for her remarkable motherand still in spite of this parent's third marriage, her union with Mr. Connery, from whom she was informally separated.
The recent treaties which regulate, or are supposed to regulate, the relations among peoples are, as a matter of fact, nothing but a terrible regress, the denial of all those principles which had been regarded as an unalienable conquest of public right.
And Captain Watson carried two gentlemen immediately to Mrs. Bargrave's house to hear the relation from her own mouth.
It is our misfortune, in one sense, to have succeeded, at the very outset of our career, to an over-grown inheritance in the literature of the mother country, and to have stood for a century in that political and social relation towards her, which was of all others most unfavorable to any originality in genius and opinions.
Never since man first walked erect have his relations toward nature been so changed, within the same space of time, as they have been since Washington was elected President and the Parisian mob stormed the Bastille.
Evidently, it can have no other relation than that which grows out of its existence as a plan of education.
He hath not attempted to render these relations into fine Latin, or in an eloquent style, but hath written them even as rehearsed by Oderic himself.
Until her visit to Germany, she had written but two books which had given her fame,one, "On Literature, considered in its Relations with Social Institutions," and a novel entitled "Delphine,"neither of which is much read or prized in these times.
When I was summoned before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on August 6, 1919, I told the Committee that, in my opinion, the Japanese signatures would have been affixed to the Treaty containing the Covenant even though Shantung had not been delivered over to Japan, and that the only reason that I had yielded was because it was my duty to follow the decision of the President of the United States.
Few men have the temper or the sentiment requisite for the support of intimate relations under such conditions.
The memorandum was first made public by Mr. William C. Bullitt during his hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in September, 1919 (Senate Doc. 106, 66th Congress, 1st Session, pages 1177 et seq.).
The Minister of Exterior Relations to Citizen Pichon, Secretary of Legation of the French Republic near the Batavian Republic: I have received successively, Citizen, your letters of the 22d and 27th
Theirs is a relation about which nobody but themselves can form a correct idea, or have any right to speak.
It would be superfluous to review here the history of Franco-German relations during the last half century; other writers have already performed the task.
The Poor Relation near the Landlady.