Sentence examples for blowouts- from inspiring English sources

Mr Shaad also criticised the Nigerian government for what he called lax standards in regulating the behaviour of oil companies, which have long stood accused of not cleaning up oil spills and pipeline blowouts.

Two blowouts, a couple closer losses and two draws took them all the way down from Supporters' Shield favorites to merely a team that could finish as high as 4th in the overall standings.

In this world, PR firms expect that their clients will need more help in mopping up publicity slicks and, ideally, in preventing image blowouts before they occur.

will be honored at the Boston Aquarium in one of his final convention-week blowouts — the "Caribbean Beach Bash," featuring musical guests Buckwheat Zydeco and reggae singer Ziggy Marley, as well as plenty of ice-cold pina coladas to go around.Also on Tuesday night, Grammy-nominated rap-pop group the Black Eyed Peas are slated to rock the mic at MTV's "Rock the Vote" concert at Avalon.

This process, which has been implicated in a number of blowouts, was carried out by Halliburton, an engineering-services firm.

One logical step might be for the government to immediately shut down every offshore drilling rig in proximity to America's coasts, pending the development of redundant, fail-safe capacity for capping and remediating catastrophic blowouts.

Team USA's unexpected bronze medal in 2004 proved the Americans were vulnerable, even though lopsided blowouts have remained common.

AS THE Sydney Opera House took shape in the late 1960s people in Melbourne, Australia's second-biggest city, sniggered at dramas over construction problems and cost blowouts.

Might such a performance fail to adequately interpret the deep ambiguities of the American people's helpless crush on those handsome bad boys in the oil industry?And how would Mr Obama's chief critics feel about shutting down offshore oil rigs until the government has the capacity to stop blowouts and clean up massive spills?

As Amy Myers Jaffe, an oil expert at Rice University, puts it, the industry's strategy on blowouts was not to have them, rather than to work out how to put one right quickly.The likely bill for BP comes in three parts.

The oil industry has been fixing blowouts for more than a century.