Which preposition to use with resources

of Occurrences 873%

For centuries, religion has too often been thought of, too often spoken of, as if it were the last resource of the heart, A brilliant young professor of psychology not long ago referred to religion as something to flee to, by those who were disappointed in love!

in Occurrences 116%

He increased his resources in a gentlemanly fashion by genealogical research, directed mostly toward the rehabilitation of ambiguous pedigrees; and for the rest, no other man could have fulfilled more gracefully the main duty of the Librarian, which was to exhibit the Association's collection of relics to hurried tourists "doing" Lichfield.

for Occurrences 100%

You run great danger; you can only by a miracle escape capture; but it is our only resource for the next charge.

to Occurrences 34%

If people play a good game of bridge, they are welcome guests in a great many houses which formerly would have been closed to them, and it is a great resource to ladies no longer very young, widows and spinsters, who find their days long and don't know what to do with their lives.

at Occurrences 22%

A nation can make good in this cataclysm only if it centers its whole power on the two objects in view: military victory, and husbanding of life and resources at home.

OF Occurrences 20%

Then no burden shall be left to the last hour, except that of mortality, of which time itself relieves us kindly,nor shall we have an account to settle with the future to which it consigns the faithful. RESOURCES OF THE SOUTH.

as Occurrences 19%

with the rapacity which looks on the world as a vast grabbing-ground, and upon all natural resources as mere commercial prey?

from Occurrences 18%

Thus, like the armies at Salonika, the new business would in effect divert resources from elsewhere.

against Occurrences 18%

It has even been stated, though the circumstance appears scarcely credible, that your system of life does not include the accumulation of adequate resources against the inevitable exigencies of winter.

than Occurrences 18%

France has a good many more resources than Italy; she has a smaller need of importations and a greater facility for exportations.

by Occurrences 14%

They first caused two strong forts to be erected at opposite sides of the river; and adding to their resources by every possible means, they threw forward a pier on each side of, and far into, the stream.

on Occurrences 13%

The kitchen door constantly banged open and shut, as the Chinese cook trotted out and back, carrying scraps to the waste barrel, or bringing his new-washing tins to hang on a rack in the open air, a resource on which he was forced to fall back on account of his cramped quarters.

with Occurrences 9%

She cannot live on her resources with her enormous capital in ruins.

within Occurrences 5%

Ambitious of success, and conscious that he has no great resources within his own experience, he shrinks from the idea of being thrown upon his naked faculty and limited resources, when he feels himself capable of dexterously using the resources of others, and so producing an effective work.

for Occurrences 5%

The large beryl mentioned by Mr. Kunz in the Mineral Resources for 1883 and 1884 has afforded the finest aquamarine of American origin known.

like Occurrences 3%

Augustus explained that patronizing local resources like this will all come in useful when he stands for Parliament later on.

without Occurrences 3%

Just as a man may have money without "flashing" it, or an extensive wardrobe without sporting gaudy neckties or wearing a dress suit in the morning, so may he possess linguistic resources without making a caddish exhibition of them.

into Occurrences 2%

Their peculiar German virtue, their tremendously complete organisation, which enabled them to put so large a proportion of their total resources into their first onslaught and to make so great and rapid a recovery in the spring of 1915, leaves them with less to draw upon now.

beyond Occurrences 2%

She was envied even by women with much more than her income:for of course Professor Draper had an independent income; it was hardly possible to be anybody unless one belonged to that minority of the faculty families with resources beyond the salary granted by the State.

under Occurrences 2%

His ability as an observer, his readiness of resource under unusual difficulties, and his power of attaching the frontier people to him personally, have been just as conspicuous throughout this duty as were his energy and success as a geographical topographer.

between Occurrences 2%

It might, indeed, not find it easy to determine the proportions in which it should allocate its productive resources between immediate and distant ends.

during Occurrences 1%

We all have the unquestionable right to a reasonable use of natural resources during our lifetime, we all may use, and should use, the good things that were put here for our use, for in the last analysis this question of conservation is the question of national preservation and national efficiency.

through Occurrences 1%

The appalling waste of timber resources through excessive and reckless cutting, amounting to forest devastation, is deplorable, but we are helpless to prevent it.

amidst Occurrences 1%

He was great in politics and in war; as active and as full of resource amidst the intrigues of the Forum as amidst the combinations and surprises of the battle-field, equally able to please and to terrify.

amongst Occurrences 1%

The weary and the heavy-laden had no celestial resource amongst its immortal revellers and libertines, male and female.

Which preposition to use with  resources