Sentence examples for petrol water from inspiring English sources

Soon, there were shortages of petrol, water, bread, electricity, food and medical supplies.

Subsidy cuts, already under way, look set to be challenging, with Saudis used to cheap petrol, water and energy – while polls show they still expect them to continue.

How many people have cars in Ghana or even those who do, how do you now buy the petrol to drive the car?" Significant increases in petrol, water and electricity costs led thousands of Ghanaians to protest last month.

With pre-payment, a person/family can buy a particular volume of gas, water, petrol, etc.

Meanwhile, the citizens suffer: there are shortages of petrol, electricity, water and banknotes.

Or a cyber-attack on the maintenance department of a big US tanker firm paralyses petrol and water distribution across a huge swath of the American south-west.

Their glossy plumage gleams in the sunshine, turning from black to green, then purple as it catches the light, refracting colours like petrol on water.

The film, directed by David Michod, is set "10 years after the collapse", in a future where resources like petrol and water have gone much the same place as the world's reserves of narrative exposition.

As households face higher bills for mortgages, food, energy and petrol, the water companies intend to hike bills by up to £100 a year to pay for new pipes to reduce leakage.

True, the smell most of the time is a more prosaic combination of frying meat, petrol, old water, sweat and – deliciously – the bread wafting from the open doors of the dozens of tiny bakeries.

Unfettered consumption of electricity, petrol and water is viewed by many as an entitlement, not an economic activity with many external costs.The solution to high electricity charges is not to build more power plants that emit greenhouse gases, but to increase conservation and energy efficiency.