31.   Business leaders feared policies relating to controlling the fiscal deficit, decontrolling the oil sector and efforts to curb the decline of the rupee could come apart.

32.   But he added that the index will be helped by underlying strength in the oil sector.

33.   But he assured Rashid that Russia will do what it can to persuade the U.N. Security Council to allow foreign investment in Iraq, particularly in the oil sector.

34.   But the economy is growing at surprisingly high rates thanks mostly to the booming oil sector.

35.   But liberalizing the Saudi oil sector is not being discussed.

36.   By opening up its oil sector to joint ventures with foreign companies, Cuba has quadrupled its oil production over the past decade.

37.   China banned foreign investment in the oil retail sector before it joined the WTO in order to protect the domestic oil market.

38.   Congress on Tuesday approved a plan to open the state-run oil sector to private investment.

39.   Despite vast oil reserves, oil sector has developed less quickly than expected.

40.   European markets rose Monday on the strength of buying in the telecommunications and oil sectors.