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.