Katha Pollitt

We want to make sure that women have a way to use all their gifts in society, to get educated, to be all they can be in the workforce, to really develop as people in all the ways that they can. We want this for men too! And we want this for children. Well this can't happen if this can be sandbagged by an ill-timed and unwanted pregnancy.

American Poet

P. J. O'Rourke

Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.

American Comedian

Poppy Delevingne

My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.

English Model

Laura Benanti

That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.

American Actress

Russel Honore

You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property.

American Soldier

Richard O'Brien

It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging.

English Actor

Sandbag as protection against water or for creating barriers during emergencies, especially floods.

Flood Defense

Sandbag used as an improvised weight for physical exercises and training.

Weight Training

Sandbags serve as stable bases for holding things like traffic signs or balloons.

Physical Stability

Sandbagging means a surprise attack, often from behind, where the sandbag is used as a blunt weapon.

Sudden Attack

The impact of being sandbagged is heavy and sudden, much like the weighted bag itself.

Heavy Impact

In sports or games, sandbagging is a deliberate ploy to appear weaker than one actually is.

Strategic Deceit

Sandbagging can be a psychological tactic to unnerve or mislead an opponent.

Psychological Tactic

Sandbagging can be used to intentionally slow down a process or project for various reasons.

Deliberate Delay

Politicians might sandbag legislation by introducing numerous amendments or debates.

Obstructive Tactics

 of course that's again a very long-term vision something that might be shorter term still on the order of years but maybe not decades is to have a system like this build levees out of sandbags to protect against flooding classically the times when you want to use robots instead of people our situation is

Termite-Inspired Robots...

 and didn't touch their bodies. I was leaning against some sandbags one morning, not much going on, sort of spacing out, and some sand was kicked into the side of, sort of hit the side of my face. Something hit the side of my face, and I didn't know what it was. You have to understand about bullets

Sebastian Junger: Why...

 But with these rules, this is really only one kind of robot body that you could imagine. You could imagine many different kinds of robot bodies. So if you think about robots that maybe could move sandbags and could help build levees, or we could think of robots that built out of soft materials

What intelligent...

 They moved me from intensive care to acute spinal. I was lying on a thin, hard spinal bed. I had no movement in my legs. I had tight stockings on to protect from blood clots. I had one arm in plaster, one arm tied down by drips. I had a neck brace and sandbags on either side of my head

Janine Shepherd: A...

 Storm goes away, the water level goes down, you get rid of the sandbags, and you do this storm after storm after storm. And here's the insidious thing. A sandbag strategy can get you reelected. A sandbag strategy can help you make your quarterly numbers.

3 ways to plan for the...

 to acute spinal I was lying on a thin hard spinal bed I had no movement in my legs I had tight stockings on to protect from blood clots I had one arm in plaster one arm tied down by drips I had a neck brace and sandbags on either side

A broken body isn't a...

 the next shiny trendy architectural solution the paper roll house the recycled bottle house the sandbag house people don't want to live in these houses they don't drive the political will they don't drive the financing and

How to build safer...

 the month of walking she finally arrives at her favorite sandbag but she's not the first here dozens of other lobsters have already dug themselves homes in the sand and they don't intend to surrender

Lobsters Battle for a...

 by a series of sandbags it gets it to its target is incredible someone had to sit down and run the numbers to come up with exactly how many sandbags exactly how far they could project the balloon

Japanese Balloon Bombs PIPE...

 wrote a book about it this part of the book he said that I had had sandbagged him I felt really sorry for a lot of people have said that sort of thing