Which preposition to use with representation

of Occurrences 1300%

Then, even as I puzzled to know what the thing was, a memory slid into my mind, and straightway, I knew that I was looking at a monstrous representation of Kali, the Hindu goddess of death.

in Occurrences 168%

The point was whether they could be taxed at all by the Imperial government when they had no representation in the Imperial parliament.

to Occurrences 51%

At the beginning of August, 1853, a petition had been presented by the Bendigo diggers, in which they urged the reduction of the license fee and the grant of representation to the diggers.

from Occurrences 50%

And we have seen how largely both these political failures were due to the absence of the principle of representation from the public life of Greece and Rome.

for Occurrences 41%

In process of time, they made use of this representation for a real king, who by the study of physic, sought the preservation of his subjects.

on Occurrences 31%

It is only because this great trading, manufacturing, and commercial class has amassed such enormous wealth and influence, and is able to command the Press, and social position, and votes and representation on public bodies and in both Houses of Parliament, that it succeeds in impressing the nation generally with the idea that its welfare is the welfare of the whole people, and its prosperity the advantage of every citizen.

at Occurrences 16%

" Here is a dramatic representation at once which that boy does not need to see repeated many times before he is forever cured of interrupting, of pulling his mother's gown, of drumming on the piano, &c.,of the thousand and one things which able-bodied children can do to make social visiting where they are a martyrdom and a penance.

as Occurrences 14%

The only circumstances strong enough to vitiate a purchase, which has been reduced to a written contract, is proof of fraudulent representation as to an encumbrance of which the buyer was ignorant, or a defect in title; but every circumstance which the purchaser might have learned by careful investigation, the law presumes that he did know.

by Occurrences 11%

But when we dismiss this idea of representation by states, we are left with the problem of the proportion of representation and of relative weight in the Council of the League on our hands.

with Occurrences 11%

It is in answer to this demand, as the outcome of a most careful examination of the ways in which voting may be protected from the exploitation of those who work elections, that the method of Proportional Representation with a single transferable vote has been evolved.

before Occurrences 6%

The one and only subject of the following discussions is the best method of fitting a dramatic theme for representation before an audience assembled in a theatre.

over Occurrences 5%

He shares in the former's interest in psychology, in the latter's foundation of metaphysical knowledge on inner experience, and in the dislike felt by both for Hegel; while, on the other hand, he differs from Herbart in his empirical method, and from Schopenhauer in the priority ascribed to representation over effort.

without Occurrences 3%

I do not see how any intelligent and informed man can have followed the recent debates in the House of Commons upon Proportional Representation without some gusts of angry contempt.

under Occurrences 2%

These original representations are the only ones which the soul produces by its own activity; all other psychical phenomena, feeling, desire, will, attention, memory, judgment, the whole wealth of inner events, result of themselves from the interplay of the primary representations under law.

into Occurrences 2%

In the transformation of religious representations into philosophical Ideas nothing specifically representative is left; the form of representation must be actually overcome.

out Occurrences 1%

The monad develops its representations out of itself, from the germs which form its nature.

outside Occurrences 1%

The hanging of the chief conspirators was kept in the minds of the short-memoried Florentines by a representation outside the Palazzo Vecchio, by none other than the wistful, spiritual Botticelli; while three effigies, life size, of Lorenzoone of them with his bandaged neckwere made by Verrocchio in coloured wax and set up in places where prayers might be offered.

amongst Occurrences 1%

[Greek: ta probata ta ema taes phonaes mou akouei.] 'There was no more common representation amongst the Jews of the relation of God and his people than that of Shepherd and his sheep' [Endnote 290:1].

through Occurrences 1%

A higher mode than representation through a sensuous form, is thought.

among Occurrences 1%

They presuppose a similar democratic basis of citizenship and representation among the component States.

against Occurrences 1%

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: I inclose, for the information of Congress, letters recently received from our ministers at Paris and London, communicating their representations against the late decrees and orders of France and Great Britain, heretofore transmitted to Congress.

after Occurrences 1%

The Parliament, like the noblesse, had taken up the cudgels; they made representation after representation.

between Occurrences 1%

The mere suggestion of equal representation between such "powers" is enough to make the British Empire burst into a thousand (voting) fragments.

Which preposition to use with  representation