• True, Carinthia suffers acutely from the dead hand of a bloated state sector and the pork-barrel politics it engenders.

    ECONOMIST: Austria

  • And while most others in his party, notably Mr Kohl, played down the task of integrating 17m people, who had lived for four decades under the dead hand of communism, into a modern entrepreneurial society, Mr Biedenkopf strode the state, declaring bluntly that the transition would be at least a decade long, very costly, and very painful indeed.

    ECONOMIST: Kurt Biedenkopf, king of Saxony

  • Prosecutor Michael Speak told the court that the dead man was a drug dealer who was bound hand and foot in his ground floor flat.

    BBC: Darren Leonard murder case: Charge dropped

  • Skipper Brad Fittler then raced over straight from a scrum to close the gap to just eight points and, in a nailbiting finish, centre Russell Richardson had a try ruled out for putting his left hand on the dead-ball line before grounding the ball.

    BBC: New Zealand 24-22 Australia

  • He held a small photograph of his dead colleague, Ahad, in his trembling left hand.

    NPR: Afghan Villagers Flee Their Homes, Blame US Drones

  • It rose from collaboration among Koetsu, the painter Sotatsu, a suitably skilled papermaker, and not least the dead hand of the poet whose waka, or classic verses, Koetsu was transcribing.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | The Subtle Magic of Koetsu

  • Cleveland's voucher scheme has led to the founding of new schools, free from the dead hand of school-board bureaucracy, offering poor families a real increase in choice (see article).

    ECONOMIST: Don��t mention the ��v��-word

  • Finally, there is the overarching and historically painful reality that an unarmed black teenager lies dead at the hand of an armed Hispanic man who ignored a dispatcher's advice not to follow and engage the "suspect, " and who may have -- and this too is forensically unclear -- uttered a racial epithet while chasing him.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • On the one hand, the lack of reform is leading North Korea down a dead end.

    ECONOMIST: North Korea after Kim Jong Il

  • One day in mid-December, there was a knock at the kitchen-house door and he found Chance Poxley standing in the tall dead grass, wearing a small tweed fedora, shading his eyes with one hand.

    NEWYORKER: Idols

  • Vintage clothes For a long time, image-conscious Italians wouldn't be seen dead in second-hand clothes.

    CNN: The story

  • The dead rise from the field, some with the help of hand, followed by a pat on the back for putting on a good show.

    FORBES: Live from Battleground Virginia

  • Mr Gove's zeal to liberate schools from the dead hand of local authorities was strengthened by research published last year by McKinsey, a consultancy, which suggested that the best education systems in the world are those in which schools enjoy autonomy.

    ECONOMIST: Schools reform

  • Nasdaq looked like a dead skunk in the road at 2250 six weeks ago, when this column said a bottom was at hand, so buy up.

    FORBES: Digital Rules

  • Before climbing the tower, gun in hand, he left a note asking doctors to perform an autopsy on his brain after he was dead.

    CNN: Can traumatic brain injury trigger mental health issues?

  • She cupped the wasps in her hand, the window frame shuddering beside her, as the storm sneaked in a draft to stir the dead wings, their stiffened weightlessness.

    NEWYORKER: Wasps

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