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More than a quarter of those involved permitting emergency sandbags to protect properties from lashing waves and rising sea levels.

Others get state approvals to use sandbags and heavy tarps, which can have the same damaging effects as seawalls.

The permits are typically limited to three years, but the sandbags are rarely removed when they expire, according to a review of hundreds of pages of documents by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and ProPublica.

He said his office regularly evaluates the sandbags and any impacts they are having on the beach and reserves the right to terminate the permits at any time, though records indicate that rarely happens.

Two homeowners asked the state for permission to erect mounds of sandbags along the beach for protection.

We’re sandbagging and they said, ‘Can we have as quick couple of drinks before the impending doom and gloom?

Perhaps he thought their question merely a footpad's introduction to a sandbagging episode.

Sandbagging, binding, and pistoling had all failed to lift him to such a height of resentment at this.

Some new sandbagging on Wabash Avenue, I suppose, and nothing else.

There are half-breed rascals in the port who wouldn't hesitate about sandbagging or stabbing you for a few dollars.

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On this page you'll find 444 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sandbagging, such as: constrain, curb, discourage, forbid, hinder, and impede.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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