Thornburgh favors mandatory waiting periods for the purchase of a handgun "in principle," he says, to keep weapons of convenience from the hands of felons and the insane.

Na Yeon and her friends try to keep three artifacts, the keys to conquer the world, from the hands of Sphere Union.

The main reason, though, is the same reason you wed me, I imagine; to keep ye safe from the hands of Jack Randall.

His killer had sought to keep this evidence from the hands of the law.

And perhaps just as important, the deal kept DoubleClick from the hands of Microsoft.

Domhnall Mór Ó Briain burned the city to the ground in 1174 in a bid to keep it from the hands of the new invaders.

The New York Times reported in 1991 that Brown said that force could be necessary to restore stability in the Middle East and keep nuclear weapons from the hands of Saddam Hussein.

Aiah pictures the ransacking of files that must be going on in Sorya's department now, information plundered to be carried off to Charna, or destroyed to keep from the hands of her successor.

If we break the blockade, if we keep it from the hands of those twin powers, still it brings change.

"That order is reserved for keeping our secrets from the hands of enemies."