They're there to control, keep the shipping lanes open and make oil available.

Ring v.

A circle, a ring. It's called an Einstein ring. Einstein predicted that, OK.

Well, this is, again, it's just a ring, a steel ring with steel nuts.

E. Ring comparison

Britain ruthlessly created a subservient Iraqi state after WWI, backing Sunni elites to control the majority Shia population. After oil was discovered in the 1920s, Britain assumed control over the new oil fields, using military force as needed.

Whose ring is that?

You have a huge ring.

I'll ring you up tonight.

I'll give you a ring.

It has a deep melancholy ring.

Read what's incribed in your ring.

That should always ring alarm bells.

Index finger, middle finger, ring, little.

I heard the front doorbell ring.

This ring has lost its glitter.

The high price of oil was governed by the market and was beyond the control of energy exporting countries.

And now put the lens over the galaxy, and what you'll find is that you'll see a ring, an Einstein ring.

In case of fire, ring the bell.

Little, ring, middle, index. And then open.

I had a 24 karat gold ring.

I will find you your lost ring.

A ring and some cash are missing.

He gave me a ring at midnight.

She's promised to give me a ring.

But without implementation, our declarations ring hollow.

A ring product list containing 950 consumption items has been developed with considerable effort and input from the regional offices and ring countries.

He buys a ring, she buys a dress.

Oh, you like my ring? It's my grandmother.

So we raised this 45,000 pound steel ring.

This diamond ring is too extravagant for me.

Give me a ring when you go running.

So a crystal that will ring if that happens.

Iraq may be in trouble, but about 90 of its oil is produced in the south, near Basra, which is fully under Shia control, or in the north, under the control of the Kurds. Only about 10 is produced near Mosul, now under the control of the Islamic State.

We are making every effort to control inflation, because we know that high oil prices have a negative impact on economic growth and poverty reduction.

She said, If you're talking about hope and peace, ring this.

The region is a full participant in the ICP ring comparison.

The ring countries under the coordination of the Office for National Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland have conducted pre surveys of the draft ring list.

Given that most of Sudan s oil wealth is concentrated in the South, the management of the oil industry and its revenues after secession is an existential problem for Bashir s regime and its capacity to control his vast and ethnically diverse country. It is in the oil rich border areas that a new war might erupt.

But corruption, political control of the national oil company, and nationalization of foreign owned oil assets have caused exactly the opposite. (Disclosure I serve on the board of one such company, ExxonMobil, which is awaiting the results of arbitration in international court.)

I said, She'll be happy. She'll ring you up on the mobile.

I couldn't build this with a steel ring, the way I knew.

As soon as she heard the bell ring, she answered the telephone.

Oil was not the cause of the Iraq War in the simplistic sense that American control of Iraqi oil would make it more secure. The world s dependence on Persian Gulf oil means that all countries have an interest in maintaining stability in that region, while improving energy efficiency and increasing the diversity of their overall energy supplies.

Even if an increase in oil prices turns out to be permanent, pitfalls abound. Governments that can finance themselves simply by retaining physical control over oil or mineral deposits often fail in the long run to develop institutions that are conducive to economic development.