It looks to me like a dead hand, but I can't be sure.

Until it is set free from the dead hand of the state, our television will never reach its potential.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is a dead hand that has gripped our nation's heart for too long.

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

People claim to be aware of an invisible presence near the old farmhouse.

He was too worried about the possible identity of that invisible presence.

Nothing must stand between man and the invisible presence of God.

Here the voice seemed to put a question to an invisible presence and to receive an answer.

Or rather, the four, if the invisible but real presence within the girl was counted.

He thought of the invisible presence that seemed to have him under constant surveillance.

He was an invisible presence, watching the unfolding scene without being in it.

The Chinese military has been a nearly invisible presence here.

I wanted to know what invisible presence she had met with on the mountain land.

"I can never be alone with my thoughts while you're here," she complained to the invisible presence.