So they expect the current "war premium" for oil quickly to give way, perhaps to prices that fall below $20 a barrel.This expectation of price collapse may explain the sombre response of the oil majors to what appears to be a golden opportunity to make more money.
Just weeks after Merkel responded to the refugee crisis with the declaration: "Wir schaffen es – We can do it" – the euphoric mood has been replaced by a more sombre response with the realisation that the newcomers are here to stay, with all the consequences that entails.
After years of silence, punctured by sombre responses to predictable slaughter, an American president has made a sober, principled and coherent intervention on the issue of gun control.
He's trying to sound sombre in response, but to me it just sounds hesitant.9 12: Bachmann just destroyed Perry, who did seem to imply that he can be bought off for a bit more cash.9 12: Perry's now standard response on cervical cancer is a clever slight of hand, though, Orange.
A sombre and atmospheric response to the 11 September atrocities for children's choir, orchestra, chorus and pre-recorded soundtrack which has already, deservedly, won a Pulitzer.
We like to wallow in the accents and accoutrements of Jane's world, but our response is predominantly sombre.
As well as hymns, in this enfeebled condition, the poet also turned to a new and sombre kind of prose, his urgent response to the threat of imminent extinction.
Events such as the disappointing lack of outcomes from the Rio+20 conference, the global financial slowdown taking precedence over other public policy areas (including climate change), and the distracting nature of the debate surrounding climate change attribution that prohibits climate change action, all contribute to the sombre reality regarding a lacklustre climate change mitigation response.
The sombre portrait of the British monarchy's public and private response to the wave of grief that followed Princess Diana's death takes its place among a diverse roster of world premieres set to play in competition.
If the subject is sombre, the account of Lawrence himself - great, complex, exasperating, brave - and the responses of his wife and various friends, are told with such verve and wit that I found myself laughing as I read.
If you go to interview twin poets about the death of their elder brother, and the work they have made jointly in response to it, your natural expectation is that the atmosphere will be serious, even sombre.
