Sentence examples for widespread oil from inspiring English sources

The Pentagon developed plans to cope with catastrophes that did not occur, like widespread oil field fires and large-scale refugee flows.

Communities along Spain's northern coast girded for widespread oil contamination in the coming days after a crippled tanker holding twice the load lost aboard the Exxon Valdez split in two today and sank more than 100 miles offshore.

(Last year the Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker that ran aground in Alaska in 1989 and caused widespread oil pollution, was sent to a ship-breaking yard in Gujarat, India).

A8 Spain Braces as Tanker Sinks Communities along Spain's northern coast girded for widespread oil contamination in the coming days after a crippled tanker holding twice the load lost aboard the Exxon Valdez split in two and sank 100 miles offshore.

"Despite their claims of friendship with the Iranian nation, the Americans started imposing harsh and widespread oil and banking sanctions on Iran, and they insist that they should not be considered enemies in spite of these hostile actions," he said in a broadcast speech.

Rasmussen, who reports his results in the current issue of Geology, believes the abundance and extent of the kerogen in the shales indicates the ocean was already teeming with enough single-celled life 3.25 billion years ago to support widespread oil generation.

The decision to drill in the ITT field adds to widespread industrial oil extraction across the Ecuadorian Amazon that over the last few decades has wreaked environmental havoc.

To earn it, girls must complete multiple tasks, including sending a letter to the chief executive of the Girl Scouts and going on a "supermarket adventure" to learn how widespread palm oil is in American life.

In America, olive-oil adulteration, sometimes with cut-rate soybean and seed oils, is widespread, but olive oil is not tested for by the F.D.A. — F.D.A. officials tell me their resources are far too limited, and the list of responsibilities far too long, to police the olive-oil trade.

We have seen that cartels are very hard to hold together, and that widespread cheating on oil production quotas has often made it very hard for oil exporters to keep prices up.

But another problem is the widespread theft of crude oil in the Delta.