jealously guarded

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

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

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

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

They were the hold's secret, and jealously guarded against outsiders.

The river is a jealously guarded preserve and very expensive.

Not just his past, which he seldom discussed and jealously guarded.

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

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

They are jealously guarded, come the elections, but it should not be impossible.

In the past, the company has jealously guarded this kind of technical expertise.

These exercises were for his own sake, the results private and jealously guarded.

And the military has always jealously guarded its share.

It is not a body of secret or jealously guarded truths, for example.

The survivors of those who had joined him the first day jealously guarded the right, now.

Every black man was signed on contract, and jealously guarded by his employer.

There are only a few hundred in the world, jealously guarded by their respective governments.

The consuls themselves, however, each jealously guarded his own authority.

Only the very wealthy could afford the space for a real tree, and they were jealously guarded.

There are fifteen vampires in this house, and the number is jealously guarded.

"For city folks, privacy is precious, something to be jealously guarded."

On the site of a former town dump, the pond was at one time a jealously guarded secret.

For many of these parents, anything that might influence a child's success or failure in the college process becomes a jealously guarded secret.

But universities have a considerable and jealously guarded degree of independence.

It would be a while before anyone had much in the way of fresh vegetables, and canned ones were jealously guarded.