For others, the dead hand of the Government was involved.

The second issue is the growing weight of Europe's dead hand on the market.

We must free ourselves from the dead hand of the past.

But there's too much risk that someone else would figure things out, and take it from her dead hand.

So the dead hand of the council has fallen yet again.

The past weighs on the present here like a dead hand.

New York is now gripped by the dead hand of history.

Did you hope to recover them from my dead hands?

That bunch tried to keep a dead hand in office and they did a pretty good job.

It is a living, dynamic thing and not simply the dead hand of the past.

If we are able to do it without any taxpayers' money and the dead hand of government, then so much the better.

They will have to prized from my cold dead hands.

That thought was like the sweeping of a dead hand across his face.

And once again we see the dead hand of religion at work behind the scenes.

You're hanging on to some- body's dead hand from way back.

When I read that letter, it was like his dead hand reaching out to me.

Their dead hand explains much of what does not happen day-to-day.

They would have to pry the thing from her cold dead hands.

He rolled away as the dead hand came loose from, his hair.

He pressed the cold dead hand against the access panel.

I went to her, lifted the dead hand and took from it the ring.

May the dead hand of Abraham strike me down if these were not his words.

But the dead hand of the present should not lay on the future: let tomorrow's people decide who they want to be their President.

It is a dead hand that has gripped our nations heart for too long.

He had to take hold of the dead hand.