| But they sandbagged her, so the last thing she was going to do was take insults from the man who almost ruined her career. |
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| Either they sandbagged during qualifying and practice or they gave very high downforce to the cars to make them slower during those sessions. |
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| I longed to tell her that dreams can lose their buoyancy, like a gas balloon weighted with too much ballast, sandbagged by too many years. |
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| The number of trenches and sandbagged gun positions has tripled in two weeks. |
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| Three guys popped up from a sandbagged hole and we hit them with the chain gun. |
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| Looking out of the bus window, I saw tank traps, sandbagged trenches, tank emplacements, barbed wire, low flying copters. |
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| Volunteers have reinforced dikes along the Elbe River and sandbagged their homes and businesses trying to avoid a deluge. |
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| For each section, terram was laid, sandbags placed to hold it in position, and then the lines of historic palisades and piles were sandbagged. |
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| Beside us, a Forward Air Controller uses a powerful periscope to pinpoint enemy targets over the sandbagged rim of the observation post. |
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| Marines take cover behind a sandbagged fighting position to lay down a hail of paintball rounds on the opposition. |
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| Trenches are being dug, power stations sandbagged and people have started to carry gas masks around with them. |
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| This in itself is A-OK, but such countries run the risk of being sandbagged by protectionist tariffs initiated by neighbouring nations. |
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| The national guard was called in and set up sandbagged machine gun emplacements downtown. |
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| The device was sandbagged, the area cleared and then the tranquillity shattered briefly as a sympathetic charge disposed of the shell. |
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| Do you feel in any way, Governor, sandbagged by some other Democrats in the party? |
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| He had already announced that he was planning to leave the program to work on a book, but he knew he had been sandbagged, and he didn't like it. |
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| I think that he was sandbagged a bit by the way they were reported originally. |
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| The containers in which the soldiers live and operate could be sandbagged on the exterior to protect the occupants from small arms fire and fragmentation. |
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| The Gallup Economic Confidence Index was sandbagged by the October government shutdown and debt-ceiling brinkmanship. |
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| He made a highly illiquid bet on LightSquared, a wireless broadband company, that has sandbagged his fund and reputation. |
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| A shallow trench took us to a forward observation post, a sandbagged nest with binoculars and links to the unmanned aerial vehicles circling overhead. |
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| Fearing floods, thousands of residents sandbagged their homes. |
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| The dot-com collapse was dramatic enough, but even the skeptical few who saw that one coming were sandbagged by the sharpness of the overall market decline. |
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| Housing starts, which had been sandbagged by poor weather, leapt sharply. |
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