And after all that, she was about to die in the Bajoran system at the hands of the Cardassians' new allies.

The fear here is of widening war that would eventually engulf Armenia and Azerbaijan and force the hand of their foreign allies.

With Scott's mom aiding his as a nurse, Jackson falls into the hands of Scott and his allies.

Once before we left Afghanistan too soon, and it fell into the hands of Osama bin Laden and his allies.

The village of Kamani fell into the hands of separatist formations and their North Caucasian allies.

The rules are intended to keep strategic products out of the hands of the Soviet Union and its allies.

They described it as an 11th-hour "ploy" by the president to leave power in the hands of his military allies.

Mobutu in turn delivered Lumumba into the hands of his Congolese rivals and their Belgian allies.

On that day, more than three hundred American Revolutionaries died at the hands of Loyalists and their Iroquois allies.

But, in practice, this wealth is concentrated in the hands of Mr Bongo and his allies.