Which preposition to use with standards

of Occurrences 1621%

Who is looking to the intellectual, moral, and spiritual standards of the Church for guidance?

in Occurrences 85%

But as he arose, and while pale-cheeked Genevra, hands clasped upon the green scarf at her bosom, looked wet-eyed where the archers stood ranked, forth stepped Giles and spake quick and eager. "Lord!" said he, "to-day methinks will be more hard smiting than chance for good archery, wherefore I do pray let me bear thy standard in the fightne'er shall foeman touch it whiles that I do livelord, I pray thee!" "Be it so, Giles!"

for Occurrences 77%

We must not then despise the rough and ready productions of a child, nor force upon him a standard for which he is not ready.

by Occurrences 47%

But as he entered the senate house he heard that two of the four legions had deserted to his rival, and in great alarm he hastened to the camp just in time to keep the remainder of the troops under his standard by distributing to every man five hundred denaries.

at Occurrences 24%

Night and morning he looked proudly at the sacred ensign waving lightly in the summer breeze, and he remembered that the eyes of Washington had rested on the same standard at Valley Forge; that the sullen battalions of Cornwallis had saluted it at Yorktown.

to Occurrences 21%

II like you far too much, Doctor Mary." "You imputed your own standards to me.

on Occurrences 15%

Who, urged by fate, and fortitude their guide, On the wild surge their desperate fortune tried; Undaunted every toil and danger bore, And fixed their standards on a savage shore; What time they fled, with an averted eye, The baneful influence of their native sky, Where slowly rising through the dusky air, The northern meteors shot their lurid glare.

of Occurrences 13%

"The National Standards of Length and Weight had been destroyed in the fire of the Houses of Parliament.

from Occurrences 13%

Paulo da Gama, as he went out with the Lisbon river, hauled down the royal standard from the masthead; but at the great supplications of his brother, who gave him good reasons why it was fitting that he should carry it, he again hoisted it.

than Occurrences 13%

I myself have been an old Statesman, having served my country for 4 years as Gustise of the Peece, raisin' sed offis to a higher standard than usual, as well as raisin' an interestin' family of eleven healthy children.

with Occurrences 13%

It is not by reference to date or country, or grade of material progress, that we assess the value of moral judgments, but by that subjective standard with which our own moral attainments supply us in regard to all that is equal or less, similar or dissimilar.

as Occurrences 11%

He addressed them in a stirring and argumentative harangue, pointing out union under his standard as the only safeguard against French conquest.

against Occurrences 7%

The two houses, assuming a tone of conscious superiority, replied that they could receive no message from a prince who had raised his standard against his parliament, and had pronounced their general a traitor.[b] Charles (and his condescension may be taken as a[c]

among Occurrences 5%

As regards the practices of railways among themselves: if the various railways of America are joined and inosculated as they are in England, it appears to me indispensable that they have one common standard among themselves: say Washington Observatory time.

within Occurrences 4%

"Why, EVEN OF YOURSELVES," he demands of them, "judge ye not what is right?"[A] How could they, unless they had a clear light, and an infallible standard within them, whereby, amidst the relations they sustained and the interests they had to provide for, they might discriminate between truth and falsehood, right and wrong, what they ought to attempt and what they ought to eschew?

without Occurrences 4%

Here, it is true, we have patterns to follow; but patterns that will make the signification of their names very uncertain: for names must be of a very unsteady and various meaning, if the ideas they stand for be referred to standards without us, that either cannot be known at all, or can be known but imperfectly and uncertainly.

into Occurrences 3%

The task of translating these new standards into action lies before us.

before Occurrences 2%

"Ye shall not steal; neither shall ye deal falsely, nor lie one to another," says the Lord, in holding up the right standard before his children.

above Occurrences 2%

Upon the north, conspicuously, he set his litter with his standard above it and about it massed the raw levies of London.

in Occurrences 1%

Secondly because they have no Standards in Nature.

through Occurrences 1%

Saladin died at Damascus soon after concluding this truce with the princes of the crusade: it is memorable that, before he expired, he ordered his winding-sheet to be carried as a standard through every street of the city; while a crier went before, and proclaimed with a loud voice, THIS IS ALL THAT REMAINS TO THE MIGHTY SALADIN, THE CONQUEROR OF THE EAST.

throughout Occurrences 1%

In 1873 Germany made gold the standard throughout the new German Empire (having prepared the way by legislation in 1871 which made gold a legal tender alongside of silver), and provided that silver was thenceforth to be used only in the subsidiary coinage.

toward Occurrences 1%

It is doubtful if all the elements could ever be tabulated in any form that would be a positive guide in shaping the final result, but in a general way the designer should make a fairly good guess at the kind of standard toward which he should work.

until Occurrences 1%

Our sole purpose now is to screw our sturdy followers up to the requisite pitch of efficiency, and keep them remorselessly at that standard until the dawn of triumphant and abiding peace.

about Occurrences 1%

You recognize that people have different standards about what is truth.

Which preposition to use with  standards