11.   Both U.N. and Iraqi officials say if current prices are sustained on global oil markets Iraq will hit its financial target long before the end of the phase.

12.   But if higher energy prices are sustained and spill over into other product prices to make them more expensive, they also can spark inflation.

13.   However, the dealer said buying support from the state firms would not sustain prices in the long term unless foreign institutional investors turn major buyers.

14.   However the dealer said buying support from the state firms would not sustain prices in the long term unless foreign institutional investors turn major buyers.

15.   Investors were disappointed to learn of the fare reductions because they had hoped the industry would sustain higher prices.

16.   But the constant influx of liquidity from retirement funds should continue to sustain stock prices, Wachtel said.

17.   Fears on NYMEX that gasoline stocks would be insufficient to cope with the seasonal upsurge in US demand this summer had sustained prices at higher levels earlier.

18.   Oil prices have been sustained by high imports by western industrialised countries.