1. Back then, nearly anything associated with oil-rich Texas seemed to be a hot product.

2. We know oil-rich regimes purchase their safety and others a dubious new credibility in Western eyes.

3. Raimondo, the designer, was frantic; an oil-rich sheikh was coming in for a private showing with his wives.

4. Yet at the last count there were six oil-rich states bordering the Gulf.

5. The changes would strengthen the oil-rich country's presidency.

6. Trade with oil-rich Libya and the resumption of remittances would be a welcome relief.

7. The oil-rich seeds of the salicornia can be pressed using processing similar to that used for other oil seed crops, such as sunflowers.

8. In many nations, particularly the oil-rich Gulf States, either there has been no protest or protest has been met with violence.

9. The tradition lives on in today's oil-rich Kingdom of Saudi Arabia—a male-dominated culture in which a man's personal and family honor depends on the conduct of females under his care.

10. The oil-rich Gulf states grouped in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) should consider letting their poor stepbrother join the organization.

11. Then along came the Gulf's oil boom and Western banks found themselves flooded with investments from oil-rich sheikhs.

12. But this had to be reconciled with the need for good relations with the oil-rich Arab countries.

13. The hottest new zone for pirates is West Africa, whose oil-rich Gulf of Guinea has seen a spike in attacks this year.

14. Yukon River smokehouses should be filled this summer with oil-rich strips of king salmon -- long used by Alaska Natives as a high-energy food to get through the long Alaska winters.

15. For there's Condi and Dick, my old compadre, talking to me about some oil-rich Saudi, but soon I'll touch the brown brown grass of home.

16. The United Nations mission in Sudan says there's been more fighting in the oil-rich region of South Kordofan, close to the border with southern Sudan, which is due to become independent next month.

17. The enhanced U.S. presence may serve as a counterweight to China as it asserts territorial rights to the oil-rich South China Sea that are disputed by other Asian nations.

18. A strategic waterway linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman. The narrow strait controls oceangoing traffic to and from the oil-rich Gulf States.

19. Intelligence agents arrested the president of Venezuela's only remaining independent television station on Thursday, leading to concerns that freedom of speech is ending in this oil-rich nation.

20. It is also one of the not-to-be-missed attractions of Oman, an oil-rich and peaceful sultanate, bordered by Saudi Arabia to the west, Yemen to the south and the United Arab Emirates to the north.

21. The dangers can be seen all too clearly in remote villages like Longuchuk, near the oil-rich Sudd marshes of Upper Nile state.

22. But these measures mainly serve as a strong signal of world censure to Iran and are weak in pinching Iran's oil-rich economy and forcing an end to the regime's efforts to make weapons-grade uranium.

23. Some countries showed such energy hunger as to even want more coal (Argentina , Jordan, Kenya) but only in oil-rich Russia did less than half the people want more New Energy like wind and solar.

24. Thousands of UN peacekeepers will still have to be deployed here, and there are fears of clashes between northern and southern troops along that oil-rich border.

25. The Addax deal will give Sinopec a strong foothold in oil-rich West Africa and Iraqi Kurdistan and a steady supply of oil for its refining operations.

26. Fighting between the SAF and the SPLA erupted earlier this month near Kadugli, the capital of oil-rich Southern Kordofan state.

27. Mr Bashir has said he would respect the outcome of the referendum but some fear conflict could resume, especially in the oil-rich border region.

28. The meeting under the auspices of the African Union will focus on the disputed region of Abyei and the oil-rich northern state of South Kordofan.

29. Tensions between China and Vietnam escalated over the weekend as each nation accused the other of violating its sovereignty in the oil-rich South China Sea.

30. The report notes increasingly close ties between the price of oil and the growth outcomes among the oil-rich, labor importing countries, a fact that was not always the case in prior oil booms.

31. Consider Baku, the oil-rich capital of Azerbaijan. Nearly every upscale hotel brand is building there, and Four Seasons plans to complete its hotel in late 2011.

32. VOTERS in Equatorial Guinea, a tiny oil-rich country in West Africa, go to the polls on Sunday November 29th to re-elect Teodoro Obiang Nguema as president.

33. It's not certain that divestment will persuade these firms to end lucrative deals with oil-rich Iran.