Which preposition to use with restraints

of Occurrences 257%

You and I enjoy it longer, because it brings back old memories and relieves us from the toils of business and the restraints of conventional life.

on Occurrences 74%

It is amazing that so great a mind should have so little understood that more than any other Constitution, that of America imposes powerful restraints on democracy.

in Occurrences 51%

There was a hint of effort at restraint in the captain's voice.

from Occurrences 18%

Now his mother came and lapped the blood, without restraint from her son, and now she knew him to be her son, and enquired of him why he had come alive to their comfortless habitations.

than Occurrences 9%

From words of Esmo's, and from other sources, I gathered that the usual course under such circumstances would have been to keep the culprit under no other restraint than that confinement to the house which is too common to be remarkable, trusting to the terror which punishment inflicted and menaced by domestic authority would inspire.

with Occurrences 7%

One dreadful day, when he had been nagged to fisticuffs with Wesley, whose dudish dignity exacted a certain restraint with the hot-headed youngster, Elisha Boone, behind the thick hedge, heard on the highway outside his grounds this outrageous anathema: "You're no more than a thief, Wes Boone; your father stole all he's got.

to Occurrences 5%

They have refused to consider as prisoners of war, and threatened to punish as traitors and deserters, persons emigrating without restraint to the United States, incorporated by naturalization into our political family, and fighting under the authority of their adopted country in open and honorable war for the maintenance of its rights and safety.

as Occurrences 5%

With so many added faculties of being, incapable of fatigue as we were, incapable of death, recovering from every wound or accident as I had myself done, and with no foolish restraint as to what we should or should not do, why might not we rise in this land to strength unexampled, to the highest powers?

under Occurrences 5%

These I judged to be twenty-eight or thereabouts, while her powers of restraint under provocation to believe savored of more years than even her mother could claim.

for Occurrences 4%

That tramp ought to have been followed, arrested, and shut up where his vicious propensities would have been under wholesome restraint for a while.

after Occurrences 3%

The working classes by abstinence from early or improvident marriages, or by the exercise of moral restraints after marriage can, it is urged, check that tendency of the working population to outgrow the increase of the work for which they compete.

between Occurrences 3%

"Signora, adieu; we have met on this water when there was less restraint between us.

over Occurrences 3%

There was no discipline of any sort, and very little restraint over their communication with the outside world, beyond what was necessary for safe custody.

at Occurrences 2%

So you see, restraints at first arising from a low principle may improve into something better.

by Occurrences 2%

In filling original vacanciesthat is, offices newly createdit is my opinion, as a general principle, that Congress have no right under the Constitution to impose any restraint by law on the power granted to the President so as to prevent his making a free selection of proper persons for these offices from the whole body of his fellow-citizens.

through Occurrences 2%

As restraints upon the people themselves they are but self-denying ordinances which the people may revoke, but the supreme test of capacity for popular self-government is the possession of that power of self-restraint through which a people can subject its own conduct to the control of declared principles of action.

within Occurrences 2%

From all this it follows that Theosophists should sound the note of self-restraint within marriage, and the gradualfor with the mass it cannot be suddenrestriction of the sexual relation to the perpetuation of the race.

against Occurrences 1%

If constructed by private capital the stimulant and the check go together and furnish a salutary restraint against speculative schemes and extravagance.

during Occurrences 1%

The young seaman laughed; and, as if this sally had broken through the barrier of his reserve, his manner lost much of its cold restraint during the remainder of their conference.

into Occurrences 1%

But this untoward circumstance did not import the least difficulty or restraint into our conversation.

beyond Occurrences 1%

Therefore, as the case now stands, the peace commissioners are free to deal with the Philippine problem at Paris absolutely without restraint beyond that which might be supposed to rise from a sense of moral obligation to avoid committing the Filipinos again into the hands of their late rulers.

throughout Occurrences 1%

There is no resource so firm for the Government of the United States as the affections of the people, guided by an enlightened policy; and to this primary good nothing can conduce more than a faithful representation of public proceedings, diffused without restraint throughout the United States.

among Occurrences 1%

There is no ceremony or restraint among the Indians: so, hearing that Shaw-nee-aw-kee was sick, Four-Legs instantly made his way to him, to offer his sympathy and prescribe the proper remedies.

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