1.   A stocky blond man is slowly dealing himself a hand of solitaire on a card table in the living room.

2.   Although the long-term trend is towards greater equality, most wealth still remains concentrated in the hands of a small minority.

3.   America extended the hand of friendship, but it was rejected.

4.   An underside view of the extended hand of a bat showing the webbed fingers which make flight possible.

5.   And for all that, I have fallen into the hands of the Robemaker, he thought angrily.

6.   But in the hands of director John Singleton, it instead descends disappointingly into vacuous, hokey Hollywoodism.

7.   Chun was not able to wash his hands of the Kwangju massacre, which dogged him throughout his eight-year rule.

8.   Control of these services has now passed into the hands of the local authorities.

9.   Diagnosis and treatment were in the hands of the medical experts who held the franchise on knowledge.

10.   Dunbar has already washed his hands of the project.