The oil-rich Gulf states certainly aren't doing the job.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between The Lines Online: Investing In Peace] Reference

For now it's packed — and not only with oil-rich Gulfies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doubts About Dubai] Reference

(In those days, oil-rich America was Japan's principal source of oil.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Pearl Harbor Brought Peace] Reference

I mean it just looks shabby -- the poorest oil-rich capital I've ever seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [LIKE A COUNTRY WITHOUT OXYGEN] Reference

As the oil-rich Arabs plead poverty, millions have been left without a home.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Year Later] Reference

These oil-rich countries are exceptions to the new rules of the global economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rogue Offspring] Reference

He's started by trying to turn his oil-rich country into a Central Asian Kuwait.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Leader's Legacy] Reference

Saks Fifth Avenue of Riyadh is a gleaming department store in the oil-rich Gulf state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Craig and Marc Kielburger: Bringing Tolerance Back in Style] Reference

"The United States and its allies have a vital interest in the oil-rich region," Abizaid said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Energy Wars] Reference

At the same time, new surveys have also clarified which nations and companies are truly oil-rich.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Next Move Is Check] Reference

The World Bank has been experimenting on such a model with Chad, the tiny oil-rich African state.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Wage War] Reference

Among African countries, oil-rich Nigeria is now planning to make nuclear power part of its energy mix.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yes, In My Backyard] Reference

The 68-year-old has started an anti-corruption drive that has shocked officials in his oil-rich country.    From Wordnik.com.  ['No Longer a Way of Life'] Reference

The CPA gave the oil-rich south autonomy for six years, at which time it will hold a referendum on secession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fracture Lines] Reference

Some experts believe supplies from the oil-rich Middle East may begin to decline sometime in the next decade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Digging Deep] Reference

Most analysts agree that the region with the best shot at truly threatening the West is the oil-rich Persian Gulf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Build It And They Will Learn] Reference

Nigeria is the most oil-dependent economy in the world, and suffers constant conflict in its oil-rich Niger Delta.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Save Africa] Reference

Once Saddam invaded Kuwait, an oil-rich kingdom with economic and political ties to the West, he had to be stopped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captiol Letter: Sidetracked] Reference

With 10 billion to 17 billion barrels of proven reserves, Kazakhstan is on the verge of becoming seriously oil-rich.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Next Move Is Check] Reference

He has pushed hard for greater regional autonomy, in order to create an oil-rich, Shiite-dominated superstate in the south.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraqi Leaders: Iraq's Ayatollah on the Rise] Reference

That prompted Chávez to sever relations with Colombia and charge that Colombia is preparing to invade his oil-rich country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hezbollah militants may be charged in Hariri death] Reference

Thus Beijing shelters the government of oil-rich Sudan, even though Khartoum is engaged in deadly ethnic cleansing in Darfur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why the World Still Needs Mr. Big] Reference

What Kyrgyzstan tells us is that the rulers of the oil-rich Central Asian nations are in fact far less stable than they pretend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despotism Doesn’t Equal Stability] Reference

It was easy to joke about the size of a Rolex watch on the wrist of a general in Lagos when Nigeria's oil-rich economy was growing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corruption] Reference

Egypt is still the only Arab country to make peace with Israel, and it's the cornerstone of U.S. policy in the oil-rich Middle East.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wave Of Terror All Their Own] Reference

Now it has nominated a short-term governor of a large, oil-rich state to be vice president and see no problem with her inexperience.    From Wordnik.com.  [A War Hero and His Surprise VP Pick] Reference

The accusations prompted Chavez to sever relations with Colombia and charge that Colombia was preparing to invade his oil-rich country.    From Wordnik.com.  [South American leaders to discuss Colombia-Venezuela relationship] Reference

A separatist movement is brewing in faraway Irian Jaya, while oil-rich Riau is clamoring for a better revenue-sharing deal with Jakarta.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Promise Of Trouble] Reference

When Saddam began torching wells in the oil-rich Rumaila oilfields in southern Iraq, CENTCOM was able to move up the ground war by a day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Room] Reference

UNITA rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, Washington's former cold-war client, had agreed to share power with the oil-rich Luanda government and stand for elections.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gems Of War] Reference

Later, she'll visit oil-rich Nigeria, where President Umaru Yar'Adua took power in a 2007 election so ugly it made Iran's recent poll look like a New Hampshire town meeting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tough Talk] Reference