Which preposition to use with valid

for Occurrences 23%

I do not impugn his intentions, he may have acted very innocently; but if this excuse of ignorance of the rules of the law be valid for him, I think that it should also be so for Captain Wilkes, and that there would be little justice in treating with extreme rigor a first offence which evidently has taken every one by surprise, and has found nowhere a very complete understanding of the conditions of the right of search.

in Occurrences 22%

None but the Pope had the power to condemn the society as a whole, and no condemnation but his could be just or valid in the opinion and conscience of the Catholics, or produce the desired political effects."

against Occurrences 12%

They may be tortured, nay even deliberately and intentionally killed without the means of redress, or the punishment of the aggressor, so long as the evidence of a Negro is not valid against a white man.

as Occurrences 11%

Unfortunately for Greek religion the philosophers did not determine which episodes in the histories of the gods were valid as doctrine and which were fictitious.

without Occurrences 5%

This dualism between the material and spiritual worlds belongs to those standpoints which are valid without being ultimate truth; on the pyramid of metaphysical knowledge it takes a high, but not the highest, place.

to Occurrences 5%

If a fellow likes to insult any one, attribute to him, for example, some bad quality, this is taken prima facie as a well-founded opinion, true in fact; a decree, as it were, with all the force of law; nay, if it is not at once wiped out in blood, it is a judgment which holds good and valid to all time.

by Occurrences 3%

Many of these laws would not stand the rigid scrutiny of the Supreme Court; to many of them the Government's title may now be valid by a kind of "squatter's sovereignty" in legislation,merely so many years of undisputed possession.

from Occurrences 2%

He therefore allowed it to stand as a presumption unsusceptible indeed of theoretical proof, but valid from a practical point of view.

at Occurrences 2%

The dogma is by no means one with the career of its founder; it does not rest on individual persons or events; it is something universal and equally valid at all times.

than Occurrences 2%

He should be like the Essenes, of whom Josephus saith, that everything spoken by them was more valid than an oath; whence they declined swearing.

on Occurrences 2%

And, if all this were insufficient, then I cite the closing act of her life as valid on her behalf, were all other testimonies against her.

under Occurrences 2%

The latter are either valid under certain conditions (If you wish to become a clergyman you must study theology; he who would prosper as a merchant must not cheat his customers), or unconditionally valid (Thou shalt not lie).

during Occurrences 1%

COMBINATION EXCURSION OR Round Trip Tickets, | | | | Valid during the entire season, and embracing Ithaca | | headwaters of Cayuga LakeNiagara Falls, Lake Ontario, the | | River St. Lawrence, Montreal, Quebec, Lake Champlain, Lake | |

about Occurrences 1%

The new law has been so amazingly successful in two of the three tests that there must be some thing valid about it, even if it is not exactly right as yet.

before Occurrences 1%

Valid before every court.

with Occurrences 1%

That makes it valid with military authorities.

of Occurrences 1%

In public transactions nothing is more authoritative than law; in private affairs the most valid of all deeds is a will.

within Occurrences 1%

The laws of each State, and the relations of the various inhabitants of each State, it of course recognizes as valid within each State; but it recognizes them as resting exclusively on the municipal authority of the State, and not on its own authority.

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