But if your home is a place you love too much to sell, the best way to hang on to it may be to entrust it to somebody else for a while.
"What a mistake it had been to entrust the sense of myself to his gratifications, his enthusiasms, to the ever more productive course of his life".
It is to this unlikely saviour that Argentine democracy has now been entrusted.
Consumers may decide that it is unwise to entrust all their secrets to a single online firm such as Facebook, and decamp to less insular alternatives, such as Diaspora.Similarly, more open technology could also still prevail in the mobile industry.
So long as Mr Major continues to talk loudly about his determination to fight sleaze, while wielding only a little stick against those in his party who appear to be guilty of it, the risk is that voters will remain convinced that the real issue is that the Tories have been in power for too long; and that it is time to entrust Britain's government to a prime minister and party that haven't.
It is dangerous to entrust your company, your personal information or indeed your life to a system that is full of security holes.
Asked if it was risky to entrust the agency's intellectual property to others, Mr. Ferguson replied that he was not worried.
By portraying the situation as a war, by engaging the rhetoric of "both sides," which implies that both have legitimate claims and justifications for their actions, ignores the fact that Israel, an occupying military force, is brutally crushing the population whose safety and security it is entrusted to protect and preserve under international law.
Although it can often be trying in less experienced hands, Shakespearean comedy tends to flourish at Stratford, in part because it is often entrusted to veterans like Mr. Dow and Mr. Davies.
The appointment was controversial in the Cabinet, a majority of whom signed a petition declaring to the president "our deliberate opinion that, at this time, it is not safe to entrust to Major General McClellan the command of any Army of the United States".
It is a risk to entrust a sensitive governorship to a foreigner (or ex-foreigner: with the job, Mr Saakashvili acquired Ukrainian citizenship).
