Which preposition to use with repressions

of Occurrences 70%

What do you think will be the best light?" This sudden alteration took me still more by surprise, and gave me almost an additional shock; but it was evident that I must follow the changes of his mood, or at least the sudden repression of sentiment which he originated.

in Occurrences 7%

RIDICULE REPLACING REPRESSION Had His Excellency the Viceroy not made it impossible by his defiant attitude on the Punjab and the Khilafat, I would have tendered him hearty congratulations for substituting ridicule for repression in order to kill a movement distasteful to him.

on Occurrences 6%

Thus the Frenchman often notices the Italian doing and saying things which he himself dislikes, but which it needs a deliberate effort of self-repression on his part not to imitate.

for Occurrences 3%

If this should involve severity of legislative repression for the blacks, that might be thought regrettable and yet be done without a moment's qualm.

by Occurrences 3%

" Supported by, and partly the result of this barrage of lies, misrepresentation and incitation, came the period of attempted repression by "law".

without Occurrences 1%

Her freaks were always such as to demand immediate repression without provoking serious displeasure, so that the temporary disgrace cost her little, and the subsequent reconciliation strengthened her hold on my heart.

from Occurrences 1%

It is not easy for a turbulent community to live next to an orderly one without continually stirring up frontier disturbances which call for stern repression from the orderly community.

to Occurrences 1%

In spite of his change from repression to conciliation, and in spite of dismissing Germain to the House of Lords with an ill-earned peerage, Lord North found his majority dwindling away.

towards Occurrences 1%

The German Government has therefore of late years pursued a policy of repression towards its own Slav subjects, the Poles, forbidding the use of the Polish language, and expropriating Polish landowners in order to plant a German garrison in the East.

against Occurrences 1%

Whilst he there resumed his life of peaceful study, the Parliament continued to maintain in principle and openly proclaim its right of repression against heretics.

Which preposition to use with  repressions