Which preposition to use with representatives

of Occurrences 1932%

I knew all the ambassadors and most of the ministers, but there were some representatives of the smaller powers and South American Republics with whom I had never come in contact.

of Occurrences 819%

It was necessary, a still more daring outrage, to arrest at their houses sixteen Representatives of the People.

in Occurrences 220%

This can only be true because either your representatives in Parliament have a deep sense of constitutional morality, or that the constituencies which select them have so much sense of constitutional justice that their representatives dare not disregard these fundamental decencies of liberty.

to Occurrences 84%

Besides the annual meeting held in the spring for transacting all this local business, the selectmen are required to call a meeting in the autumn of each year for the election of state and county officers, each second year for the election of representatives to the federal Congress, and each fourth year for the election of the President of the United States.

from Occurrences 73%

They do not affect in any way the correctness of my general statement, which is sufficiently illustrated by the fact that the oldest shire-motes, or county-assemblies, were attended by representatives from all the townships and hundreds in the shire, whether such townships and hundreds formed parts of boroughs or not.

in Occurrences 73%

The reformatory work of Szechenyi during the preceding fifteen years had educated public opinion up to new and great ideas, but the leaders of that public opinion were now to be found in the House of Representatives in the persons of Francis Deak and Louis Kossuth.

at Occurrences 37%

Without committing any indiscretion it is possible to see now from the publications of the French representatives at the Conference themselves what France's claims were.

for Occurrences 32%

A few days after Maj. Anderson was compelled to lower the Stars and Stripes on Sumter's walls a mass meeting of citizens, irrespective of party, was called to meet at the hall of the house of representatives for the purpose of expressing the indignation of the community at the dastardly attempt of the Cotton States to disrupt the government.

to Occurrences 25%

One of the commanders insolently pointed out with his sword the arrested Representatives to the passers-by, and said in a fond voice, "These are the Whites, we have orders to spare them.

at Occurrences 22%

" Then, with the words of the Representatives at his back, and the bayonets of the soldiers at his breast, the unhappy man spoke.

on Occurrences 20%

Marny answered them with a smile, accompanied by these plain words, "If you appeal to arms, and if I find any Representatives on the barricades, I will have them all shot to the last man.

on Occurrences 19%

It is a very difficult position for the American representative on these occasions.

from Occurrences 12%

They were already assembled to the number of about three hundred when the troops arrived, blocked up the approaches, and prevented a greater number of Representatives from entering the apartment, though no one at that time was prevented from leaving it.

with Occurrences 9%

The soldiers halted, looking at the Representatives with a bewildered air.

with Occurrences 8%

France not only recognized in the government of Wrangel the legitimate representative of Russia, but nominated her official representatives with him.

as Occurrences 6%

Giving a new ardor to revolutionary tendencies,Burns revolted against the orthodoxy of the "Auld Lichts," depicting its representatives as ludicrously hypocritical.

than Occurrences 5%

Assuredly no monarchy could have more distinguished representatives than this Republic.

among Occurrences 4%

This failure is much to be regretted, as it has prevented the Secretary of the Interior from making the decennial apportionment of Representatives among the States, as required by the act approved May 23, 1850.

as Occurrences 4%

The hand of gendarmes had become as accustomed to the collar of the Representatives as to the collar of thieves: the white tie of the statesman was not even rumpled in the grasp of the galley sergeants, and one can admire the Vicomte de Fallouxoh, candor!for being dumfounded at being treated like Citizen Sartin.

among Occurrences 4%

Oddly enough, the only figure that comes fairly forth to my mind's eye is that of a dowager, one of hundreds whom I used to marvel at, all over England, but who have scarcely a representative among our own ladies of autumnal life, so thin, careworn, and frail, as age usually makes the latter.

by Occurrences 3%

The bill passed the house of representatives by a vote of 75 to 49, and the senate by 19 to 13.

without Occurrences 2%

When the bayonets were so close to the Representatives that they touched their breasts, they turned aside of their own accord, and the soldier's by an unanimous movement passed between the Representatives without doing them any harm.

after Occurrences 2%

Arnauld de l'Ariége was a Representative after his own heart.

en Occurrences 2%

A few evenings after I concluded my last, the firing of cannon and ringing the great bell announced the arrival of Dumont (still Representative en mission in our department).

by Occurrences 2%

This Duponceau dared to look in the faces of the Representatives by turn, and he named them one after the other to a policeman, who took notes of them.

Which preposition to use with  representatives