Sentence examples for keep oil flowing from inspiring English sources

"If our main purpose has been to keep oil flowing, well, it works," says Mr Sick.

But other steps to keep oil flowing freely are being taken as well.

Not everything has to go right to keep oil flowing in the quantities and prices that the industrialised world expects.

Translation: remember that should the Middle East crumble under terrorism and religious ferment, Russia can keep oil flowing westward.

Crude from the tar sands and other unconventional sources could keep oil flowing well into the middle of the century, and perhaps beyond.

The Iraq war is sometimes described, by both foes and supporters, as a pragmatic venture to keep oil flowing, but not even the most ruthless accountant can justify the expense.

We supported corrupt autocrats as long as they kept oil flowing and weren't too aggressive toward Israel.

Julia Sweig, a Latin America expert with the Council on Foreign Relations, argued that the Bush administration might be more interested in quelling unrest than in ousting Mr. Chávez, and would be willing to accommodate him provided he kept oil flowing.

Since the cloud point of kerosene is −45 °F (−43 °C), a 15% kerosene mix keeps oil flowing at 5 °F (−15 °C).

Human Rights Watch said the reasons so many democratic governments make an "Arab exception" include fear of political Islam and terrorism, the need to keep oil supplies flowing, and a longstanding policy of reliance on autocracies to maintain Arab Israeli peace and to help stifle migration to Europe.

US reliance on the Gulf for its oil – and its consequent need to maintain a dominant presence in the Middle East to keep the oil flowing – has been one of the constants of the post-1945 status quo.