I knew, too, that it was a job to guard jealously.

That law has been jealously guarded by the cable television industry.

In part, because knowledge is power, and hence jealously guarded.

"I think the association is a good one, particularly since the atmosphere will be jealously guarded," he said.

The two countries have jealously guarded the independence of their nuclear forces.

It has been the most jealously guarded of all government secrets.

"They're the ones who jealously guard their privacy - from us."

Children were forced to jealously guard their old and, by now, rather battered models.

The rights to hunt on them were jealously guarded and often expensive.

In too many cases the estates so jealously guard the works that they end doing more damage than good.