But as demand has grown over the past few years, particularly from booming places like China, supply has not kept pace, so Saudi Arabia's buffer has gradually worn through.
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We're living on the edge - there's no cushion, no buffer left.
In the end Andrei Iniesta's second-half goal -- inevitably set up by Messi -- gave the home side a comfortable buffer and left Pep Guardiola's team on course to defend their title.
OPEC's control is that the Saudi buffer is precariously low.
"The recipe is there for a further significant deterioration from what we're seeing this year, which puts pressure on all manufacturers who had been hoping to buffer the U.S. slowdown with strong sales overseas, " said Shuster.
Watney, who was runner-up at the WGC-CA Championship event in March, could have led by even more, but bogeyed his final hole after three-putting to have a two-shot buffer over Germany's Martin Kaymer and Irishman Shane Lowry.
The EU's monitors may be welcomed in the buffer zone around South Ossetia, but they will have trouble getting into the two enclaves.
For partners and spouses, "it is vital that they learn to create a buffer between the person's reaction to stress and their own experience, " says Robert Lawrence Friedman, president of Stress Solutions, a Forest Hills, N.
Another of the ICB's recommendations is that banks must have a buffer to absorb the impact of potential losses or future financial crises - of at least 10% of domestic retail assets in top-quality form, such as shares or retained earnings.
Russia's first claim, to be establishing just a buffer zone, seems not to be the full story.
The bulk of the SEC's energies are devoted to developing a workable capital buffer, people familiar with the matter said.
But one thing for sure, says Delaine, is that the open water and the weakened marsh will not be able to buffer the sting of this season's storms.
Some suggest that, while Israel's peace treaty with Jordan is reasserted, a buffer zone could be drawn up on the eastern side of the Jordan river, perhaps monitored by peacekeepers from NATO or the UN, to protect Israel against an invasion from the east and to enable it to withdraw from the West Bank.
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It's always been that a college degree is the best buffer against the economic downturn.
We're losing the buffer that used to filter the Mississippi's waters.
Mauritania's tolerant form of Islam and its tribal network provide a buffer against radicalism.
It appeared fans were lined right along the fence when Larson's car sailed up and into it, but Chitwood indicated there was a buffer.
Valleywag's specialty, however, remained afflicting those who thought they had built a buffer between their business and personal practices and their image, with stories such as a running series on the trouble at Google's vaunted free cafeterias.
Protected by uninhabited forests to the north, the Rockies in the west and arid country in the south, authorities set up a 323-mile long, 18-mile wide buffer zone along the other place rats might enter, Alberta's eastern border with Saskatchewan.
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On that view, it is a good time for the world's big consuming nations (including developing countries such as China) to build up buffer stocks, which provide the only real protection against short-term supply disruptions caused by embargoes, wars and the like.
Besides the Argan tree's various human uses, UNESCO notes, it has had an historical role as a buffer against northern expansion of the Sahara desert.
The move highlighted how fragile U.S. markets have become and how the various fragmented markets have deficiencies in the way they buffer volatility.
For one of the movie's most disturbing scenes, they produced a creeping tone in the same key as a floor buffer droning in the background.
Developing corporate-bond markets is important for financial stability, both as a buffer when other funding sources run dry and to reduce mismatches in a firm's balance sheet.
This group, along with Fortify's 35 employees, has been constantly updating its hot spot library to include hacker favorites like memory buffer overflows and insiders misusing firewalls.
Sexton tagged on the tricky conversion for a 10-point buffer at half-time, and it was his half-break that ignited Leinster's attack again for their bonus point try.
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