sandbagging
present participle ofsandbag
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Sandbaggingis necessary as a precautionary measure in these cases.
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It is no good merelysandbaggingthe defences and leaving it at that.
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I can go to villages 50 miles from a city to find railway companies still busysandbaggingone corner.
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It was they who rescued the people; it was they who dealt with thesandbaggingof the river banks, preventing the flooding getting worse.
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I have received no reports that thesandbaggingat hospitals and first-aid posts has been carried out in such a way as to impede the approach of ambulances.
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Likewise, staff from many local authorities were keeping their defences in order, clearing debris from culverts, andsandbagging, saving many properties from the effects of flooding.
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The practice of rating a climb below its actual difficulty is known assandbagging.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Officials will be standing at the 1,000 and 1,320 foot markers to observe if a driver issandbagging.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thesandbaggingstarted up around 5 pm and continued late into the night.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thesandbaggingcontinued until noon when they were allowed to stop.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the capital city, which remained submerged by floodwaters for a week, residents protested thesandbaggingefforts after waters were redirected to some neighborhoods.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In older poker material and among stud and draw poker players, it is sometimes referred to as "sandbagging".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He was personally involved insandbaggingand evacuation efforts and did not actively campaign in the first period of the election.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Weak areas of the levee were reinforced with the help of hundreds of workerssandbagging.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Areas outside the city are expected to flood, and somesandbaggingis in progress.
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