Sentence examples for oil talk from inspiring English sources

"That's not oil talk, that's snake oil talk," Mr. Axelrod said.

It is true that oil talk has been the mother of political debates in Mexico ever since 1938, when President Lázaro Cárdenas expropriated all oil and gas companies and nationalized them to form Pemex — today a 150,000-employee monster that has an absolute monopoly on every aspect of oil exploration, processing and distribution in Mexico and generates 34 percent of the government's revenues.

Many of these same ethnic militias have recently re-emerged, just as the oil talks hit their final stretch.

Big oil talks about leading the way on transparency, but their actions are all too often about avoiding it.

This means now is the decisive moment for the oil talks, and diplomats say it is no coincidence that the north has suddenly increased the military pressure.

PAGE A16 No Progress in Oil Talks The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries adjourned without an agreement on modest production increases, and delegates agreed to reconvene today.

Contrary to Abrahamian, Bayandor asserts that the British were ready to compromise over oil when Mossadegh ended talks in March 1953....the decision Mossadeq took on that day to break off the oil talks was portentous in his historical ramifications.

[World Business, Section W.] No Progress Seen in Oil Talks The energy ministers of Russia and Mexico met to discuss whether to cut oil production to help prop up prices, but the talks made no apparent progress.

On Wednesday, the deputy foreign minister, Khalid Kaim, offered a revised version of the Ghanem story, saying that the oil minister was in Vienna, "meeting oil companies," and would be going on to Egypt for more oil talks before returning to Tripoli "in a few days".

His counterpart in the House, John Boehner, is too busy talking about drilling for oil to talk about what's wrong with DADT.

Yet in Aberdeen, Britain's main oil town, talk of an old "province" in decline is not tolerated.