While that was about twice the petroleum fuel cost in 2010, it is expected to be much less than the market price in less than five years if recent trends continue.

While economists and historians agree that access to and control of the access of others to important resources has throughout history been a factor in warfare and in diplomacy, oil imperialism theorists generally tend to assert that control of petroleum reserves has played an overriding role in international politics since World War I.

While petroleum oil was known prior to this, there was no appreciable market for it.

While petroleum jelly is a non-polar hydrocarbon hydrophobic ( water-repelling ) and insoluble in water, glycerol ( not a hydrocarbon but an alcohol ) is the opposite: it is so strongly hydrophilic ( water-attracting ) that by continuous absorption of moisture from the air, it produces the feeling of wetness on the skin, similar to the greasiness produced by petroleum jelly.

While the petroleum industry features heavily amongst the industrial landscape in Poza Rica, the city also has a wide variety of other industries.

While the company has significantly expanded its participation in its core business of food, beverage and packaging through regional acquisitions and integration, it has also made inroads into the power, mining, petroleum, infrastructure and telecommunication industries.

While that was about twice the petroleum fuel cost in 2010, it is expected to be much less than the market price in less than five years if recent trends continue.

While these notions have been proven unfounded, the basic idea that petroleum is associated with magmatism persisted.

While most SEG members are involved in exploration for petroleum, SEG members also are involved in application of geophysics methods to mineral exploration as well as environmental and engineering problems, archaeology, and other scientific endeavors.

While the special forces launched an amphibious assault from the Persian Gulf to secure Basra and the surrounding petroleum fields, the main invasion army moved into southern Iraq, occupying the region and engaging in the Battle of Nasiriyah on 23 March.

While he continued studying, he also worked as a nurse on trading and petroleum ships of the Argentine national shipping-company.

While prominent in the area of petroleum production, the South Plains is mainly an agricultural region, producing a great percentage of the nation's cotton and possessing numerous large cattle ranches.

While its largest businesses are primarily involved in the chemical, petroleum and energy industries, it also has South Korea's largest wireless mobile phone service provider, SK Telecom, and provides services in construction, shipping, marketing, local telephone, high-speed Internet, and wireless broadband service WiBro.

While the Carrizo Plain is dotted with dry holes drilled and abandoned by oil companies in decades past, no commercially viable quantities of petroleum have ever been found on the Plain itself.

While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.

While sovereignty has roots in antiquity, in its present usage it is essentially modern.

While The Space Merchants indicates, as Kingsley Amis has correctly observed, some of the `` impending consequences of the growth of industrial and commercial power '' and satirizes `` existing habits in the advertising profession '', its warning and analysis penetrate much deeper.

While all citizens share in blame for lax municipal ethics the Wagner regime has seen serious problems in the schools, law enforcement and fiscal policies.

While 2-year-olds are still gaining most of the attention at the track, green horses are starting to go a bit, and Jimmy Cruise has several that can really make it.

While many companies have done fine work in developing sales personnel, much of it has been product rather than sales training.

While the U. S. Department of Labor has a program of projecting industry and occupational employment trends and publishing current outlook statements, there is little tangible evidence that these projections have been used extensively in local curriculum planning.

While availability of mortgage money has been a factor in encouraging apartment construction, the generally high level of prosperity in the past few years plus rising consumer income are among the factors that have encouraged builders to concentrate in the apartment-building field.

While each scene has its own character and completeness it must fit into the general sequence to which it belongs.

While that national dichotomy has stymied any effort at changing the tradition of the national anthem, " America the Beautiful " continues to be held in high esteem by a large number of Americans.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

While the Ural – Altaic hypothesis can still be found in encyclopedias, atlases, and similar general references, it has not had any adherents in the linguistics community for decades.

While most everyone has an experience with anxiety at some point in their lives, as it is a common reaction to real or perceived threats of all kinds, most do not develop long-term problems with anxiety.

While authors such as Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Marc Ferro and Jacques Le Goff continue to carry the Annales banner, today the Annales approach has been less distinctive as more and more historians do work in cultural history, political history and economic history.

While the 68000 family has a 32-bit design, the 68000 used in several early models is generally referred to as 16-bit.

While the civil market has had weather radar for a while, there are strict rules about using it to navigate the aircraft.

While AA has pamphlets that suggest meeting formats, groups have the autonomy to hold and conduct meetings as they wish " except in matters affecting other groups or A. A. as a whole ".

While the term — literally meaning " sailing the air "— originally referred solely to the science of operating the aircraft, it has since been expanded to include technology, business and other aspects related to aircraft.

While tanks are seen as being integral to armoured warfare, in forces with a remit of power projection deployability has always been a consideration, which conventional main battle tanks cannot provide.

While an autobiography typically focuses on the " life and times " of the writer, a memoir has a narrower, more intimate focus on his or her own memories, feelings and emotions.

While paracetamol is usually taken orally or rectally, an intravenous preparation introduced in 2002 has been shown to improve pain relief and reduce opioid consumption in the perioperative setting.

While the use of paracetamol, aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen and other NSAIDS concurrently with weak to mid-range opiates ( up to about the hydrocodone level ) has been said to show beneficial synergistic effects by combatting pain at multiple sites of action, several combination analgesic products have been shown to have few efficacy benefits when compared to similar doses of their individual components.

While this opinion has remained popular, other views have been expressed as well.

While not all these conclusions have been accepted, it has had an enduring influence on archaeoastronomy, especially in Europe.

While this tendency decreased under his successors, it established the image of West Germany ( and later reunified Germany ) as a " chancellor democracy ".

While the association between serum blood levels of beta-cryptoxanthin and substantially decreased joint disease has been established, neither a convincing mechanism for such protection nor a cause-and-effect have been rigorously studied.

While there were 1, 655, 380 fixed lines in use by 1999, their number decreased to the current 994, 421.

While the working memory of the subjects decreased during and immediately after the exercise bouts, it was shown that the subjects ' working memory had an increase following recovery.

While profits plummeted the bewindhebbers only slightly decreased dividends from the earlier level.

While the term in non-scientific publications is often used interchangeably with anorexia nervosa, many possible causes exist for a decreased appetite, some of which may be harmless, while others indicate a serious clinical condition or pose a significant risk.

While bismuth compounds ( Pepto-Bismol ) decreased the number of bowel movements in those with travelers ' diarrhea, they do not decrease the length of illness.

While funding has decreased for these centres, and they have had to cut back, they have had a lower cost than the traditional fee-for-service approach.

While the air has already been dried by orographic lift before reaching the Great Basin as well as by subsidence from the upper atmosphere, the relative humidity of the air is further decreased as it descends from the high desert toward the coast, often falling below 10 percent.

While the local economy ’ s reliance on manufacturing has decreased in recent years, 20. 36 % of the labour force remains employed in the manufacturing sector.

While reading remains a favorite pastime of French youth today, surveys show that it has decreased in importance compared to music, television, sports and other activities.

While in 1936, Electra had well over 6, 000 residents, by the 1960s the population had decreased to a bit over 5, 000.

While the general signs for all types of shock are low blood pressure, decreased urine output, and confusion these may not always be present.

While it has been shown that lower levels of serotonin may be associated with ASPD, there has also been evidence that decreased serotonin function is highly correlated with impulsiveness and aggression across a number of different experimental paradigms.

While agricultural output increased as a result of the Green Revolution, the energy input into the process ( that is, the energy that must be expended to produce a crop ) has also increased at a greater rate, so that the ratio of crops produced to energy input has decreased over time.

While the emissions per barrel of bitumen produced decreased 26 % over the decade 1992 – 2002, total emissions were expected to increase due to higher production levels.

While the range may be decreased when using subsonic rounds, this may be acceptable for specialized situations, where the absolute minimum amount of noise is required.

While his government was credited with reforms such as those that led a multi-party political system in Ethiopia, introduction of private press in Ethiopia and decreased child mortality rates, his government was also accused of political repression and various human rights abuses, curbing freedom of press.

While it is clear that it now ( as of 2012 ) takes longer to reach the H-1B visa numerical cap, it is not clear whether this is a result of simple political pressure to put the program on " hold ", or a result of the decreased economic growth.

While the Bolshevik presence decreased overall following the repression of Socialist Party riots in Bucharest ( December 1918 ), it remained or was perceived as relatively strong in Iaşi and other Moldavian cities and towns.

While the Santa Anita meeting could still draw large crowds, attendance had decreased by a third.

While many private rollers still operate ( notables include Raymond W. Dillard, Tyler D. Tyson, Brad Ream, and Don Adams ), the vast introduction of commercial elongated machines into the marketplace in around 1985, following the introduction of the coin-operated penny press machine 1971, decreased the demand for private issues.

While nearing the Lesser Antilles upper-level winds decreased, allowing the depression to become Tropical Storm Hortense on September 7.

While Westchester residents successfully blocked a northward expansion of the airport, the increase in noise from jet takeoffs greatly decreased the desirability of the residential areas adjoining LAX.