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  • Shiek Yamani is going to get some good horse sense sometime this year and he'll get the boys together and he'll get it up around $20 again.

    Burning Money 1986

  • One Aramco official who frequently dealt with him was struck, more than anything else, by what he described as Yamani’s capacity for being “ostentatiously calm.”

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • One Aramco official who frequently dealt with him was struck, more than anything else, by what he described as Yamani’s capacity for being “ostentatiously calm.”

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • "If something happens in Saudi Arabia it will go to $200 to $300 per barrel," the minister, Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, told Reuters.

    Mason Inman: The Climate Post: The Clean and Dirty of Obama's Energy Plan Mason Inman 2011

  • The stone age did not end for lack of stone a remark often attributed to the former Saudi oil minister Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani.

    Inconvenient Truths About 'Renewable' Energy Matt Ridley 2011

  • "If something happens in Saudi Arabia it will go to $200 to $300 per barrel," the minister, Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, told Reuters.

    Mason Inman: The Climate Post: The Clean and Dirty of Obama's Energy Plan Mason Inman 2011

  • Imam Jabri Al Yamani admonished the crowd that "protests must be peaceful and not scare and harm the people," but as demonstrators marched toward the presidential palace afterward, the scene descended into violence.

    Violence marks 'Friday of Rage' across Yemen 2011

  • Assayas sees Carlos's greatest moment as containing the seed of his downfall: his storming of the Opec convention in Vienna in 1975 during which he and his gang took hostages but failed to carry out the secret plan of killing some of them – most prominently Saudi Arabia's Sheik Ahmed Yamani – a perceived failure of nerve that caused his expulsion from the PFLP.

    Carlos – review Peter Bradshaw 2010

  • The issue of succession CNN, says analyst Mai Yamani comes at a time when the "Saudi regime is divided, its legitimacy is questioned, and sectarian tensions are growing."

    Toni Johnson: The Transitioning Saudi Leadership Toni Johnson 2011

  • Yamani said he “deplored” the arrest, but he was unable to do anything.

    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010

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    January 31, 2013