1.   There, they were surrounded by sand bags and soaked with a water cannon, which disabled the devices.

2.   As he hastily filled homemade sand bags, he began to wonder if he should have ignored warnings to evacuate before Hurricane Georges paid a call.

3.   Dozens of heavily armed Israeli soldiers, manning jeeps or atop sand bags, encircled the prayer session.

4.   Forget the flashlight you bought for the next earthquake and call somebody for sand bags.

5.   How does a Marine make a sand bag in the desert?

6.   I was miles in the sky, counterbalanced with sand bags, which is how they did flying in those days.

7.   Paramilitary forces stand bunkered behind stacks of sand bags on every other block.

8.   Sand bags are being prepared, storm drains cleared and buses reserved to evacuate stranded people.

9.   The French soldiers, wearing flak jackets and carrying heavy assault rifles, are at each crossing, stationed behind sand bags and protected by armored personnel carriers.

10.   The solid-steel bullet was fired, he said, by Israeli soldiers who have taken up positions behind sand bags and trenches.