Residents are not putting sandbags around their homes; businessmen are not taping their store windows to protect them from being shattered by the concussions of mortars or artillery.

We've connected it to a metal ring that clamps tightly around her forehead and put sandbags on either side of her to keep her from moving.

There is no point in putting sandbags here.

"When I left, we were holding the water at bay, putting sandbags by the door," said Mr. Gamez, a 43-year-old Councilman from Tipitapa.

"It was so bad that they put sandbags in the Holland Tunnel, saving the city itself from floods," he said.

A6 Peacekeepers Fortify Positions French troops put sandbags and barbed wire around their positions in the northern sector of Mitrovica after 16 comrades were wounded in an outbreak of ethnic violence.

Put sandbags around him to keep him from moving accidentally.

Okay, we'll put sandbags around it, too.

"I had a couple of servants put sandbags around it."

Freshly dug machine-gunpits surround the police and army stations, and aid agencies are putting sandbags around their offices.