Sentence examples for oil spot from inspiring English sources
noun
A spot consisting of oil; for instance, in the ocean subsequent to an oil spill.
Until October the average oil spot price per barrel of Brent Blend was $26.
Crude oil spot prices fell 72 cents, to $75.65 a barrel.
There is another reason to support the "oil spot" war strategy.
He also directed that many government transactions, including some sales on the international oil spot market, be conducted in cash.
The reality is that an Iraqi counterinsurgency can attack and run, or it can hide in the "oil spot".
He walked up to a detailed map of the local waterway that was marked with an asterisk and two words written in grease pen: "Oil Spot".
The oil-spot strategy is a great idea.
Is the oil-spot template feasible for the United States in Iraq?
The oil-spot strategy has yet to prove itself against a nationalist movement.
The oil-spot strategy Mr. Brooks recommends -- defending small territories in Iraq and slowly expanding them into safe havens -- has been tried before.
Beyond that, the "oil-spot strategy" that Mr. Brooks advocates might sound disturbingly familiar to most students of the history of the Vietnam War.
