Sentence examples for sharpening oil from inspiring English sources

Lightly coat the rough side of the stone with sharpening oil.

He vowed to make BP pay for the damage it had caused, promised a sharpening of oil-industry regulation and told Americans that the country must seek to reduce its appetite for oil.The speech did not meet with marked enthusiasm.

Sharpening stones use oil to remove the swarf from the stone.

Sharpening or machine oil can be used with a whetstone or ceramic stone, and thinned dish washing soap is handy for use with a diamond stone.

In the 20th century, similar conflicts, sharpened by rumoured oil wealth, resulted in the Chaco War (1932 35) between Paraguay and Bolivia.

And the connections of the Republican ticket of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to the oil industry will sharpen the focus on the issue this fall, especially if it is cold.

On a later visit, more mustard oil had sharpened the dish, but the mussels still tasted pallid.

Concerns about excessive dependence on foreign fossil fuels sharpened when China's oil imports rocketed and, in 2005, the attempt by CNOOC, China's largest offshore oil and gas company, to buy America's Unocal was rebuffed.

Devon plans to sell all of its international and Gulf of Mexico production fields for as much as $7.5 billion so it can sharpen focus on its onshore oil and natural gas fields in the U.S. and Canada.

Obama started his presidency in 2009 with diplomatic overtures to Tehran, but successive rounds of sanctions imposed by Washington and the European Union have cut Iranian oil revenues and sharpened quarrels between factions.

IN this verdant lawn-filled college town, most people keep their lawn mowers tuned up by oiling the motor and sharpening the blades.