Sentence examples for throw oil from inspiring English sources

They throw oil.

"Should I throw oil on one of his moods?

He told Europe 1 radio that politicians should stop using inflammatory rhetoric to "throw oil on the fire".

"If he continues to throw oil on the fire, we will send him the pictures of dead French hostages in the coming days," Oumar Ould Hamaha, a spokesman for the Al Qaeda-affiliated group MUJWA, said, in mid-October, of Hollande.

Why not throw oil on that list of bubbles?

The head of state does not want to throw oil on the fire, and so he turns to "the wisdom of the Assemblies".

"How is making fun of those who commit terrorist acts throwing oil on the fire?" he asked.

"For me, it's fine," said Mr. Ferreira, who watched the police clean an area where drug traffickers had thrown oil to prevent vehicles from passing.

It gives conservatism a bad name while viciously throwing oil on the partisan fires already burning in red state, blue state America.

Mr. Giuliani, at the time of every conflict in New York City, has been known to forsake compromise and has instead thrown oil on the fire.

He has criticised politicians for surfing on a fear of Islam and cultural difference, rejecting Sarkozy's calls for a nationwide ban on burkinis as needlessly "throwing oil on the fire".