"By the dead hands at my throat but he shall die, Bar Comas.

The pale roses Amy gave him were the sort that the Italians lay in dead hands, never in bridal wreaths, and for a moment he wondered if the omen was for Jo or for himself, but the next instant his American common sense got the better of sentimentality, and he laughed a heartier laugh than Amy had heard since he came.

The danger is that a handful of Tory Remainers will maintain a narrow paranoid view and scupper the efforts of our new Prime Minister as they did the last one, leaving us forever under the dead hand of Brussels.

"It is an unacceptable consequence of the devolution of powers to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland that much of England itself remains constrained Whitehall's dead hand of centralism" Tory grandee Lord Heseltine.

"It is an unacceptable consequence of the devolution of powers to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland that much of England itself remains constrained by Whitehall's dead hand of centralism" - Tory grandee Lord Heseltine.

CalMac are really not to blame for this, either - this problem has the dead hand of politics written all over it.

Marlott comes across a corpse, made up from the human remains of eight missing children, and when he goes to reach for its hand, the dead hand grabs him back.

Hoffman, The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy, Anchor Books, New York, 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0-307-38784-4

Although the world is threatened when an ancient terror is unleashed, a directorial dead hand can't muster any sense of fun, fear, mystery or suspense.

It seems that Scrooge's calling card was found in the cold, dead hand of Fezziwig's body, and someone scribbled "Humbug" in blood on the floor nearby.

Comedian Amy Schumer wrote and stars in Trainwreck but her charm can't overcome her own limited script or the dead hand of director Judd Apatow.

Is the above the "dead hand" of privatisation Pete?

The country needs a complete break from the dead hand of the two party system that stifles change, snuffing good will to all.