Your life just might rest on those blades.

Well and so; the lives of hundreds of innocent people rested in my hands.

Or perhaps they represented that life and civilization rested on the solid foundations of the law.

Both his and Alicen's lives rested in this monster's hands.

"The life of a human being should not rest on my ability to crank out a brief in six hours," he said.

Your lives will rest on the choices you make today.

The American's life, and the future Russia, rested on his shoulders.

The lives of everyone aboard the Enterprise rested in his hands.

Their lives, and those of many more, rested in the hands of the old man standing next to him.

There was no comfortable feeling that my life rested in the hands of a kindly fate.