Sentences with phrase «of diamond trading»

We are proud to play a pivotal role in heralding the next era of diamond trading.»

An American diamond merchant travels to Russia to sell rare blue diamonds of questionable origin and falls into an obsessive relationship with a cafe owner in a small Siberian town, but he is unable to extricate himself from the treacherous world of the diamond trade.

De Beers, which controlled the bulk of the diamond trade at the time, is responsible for creating the idea that you need to propose with a diamond ring.

Looking to expose «the cutthroat nature of the diamond trade», Rohrer's title is an eight - round, two - player strategy title in which gamers take control of two underground companies and battle to strip Angola of is valuable diamonds before the United Nation begins regulating their sale.

In doing so, Starling illuminates a complex network of connections between art, economics, society, and history that are a part of the new narratives of the sculptures — the Chicago World's fair, the expansion of diamond trade, and even certain moments of political change, to name a few.

Sudan and Ethiopia divide water rights to the Nile; DeBeers secures dominance of the diamond trade; China and Pakistan share satellites; Transnistria and Moldova declare freight railway protocol.

Not exact matches

The government of Singapore, for instance, is focusing on much larger initiatives than diamonds: global trade.

As sales of diamonds have slowed globally, trade associations such as Diamond Producers Association have attempted to win over millennial customers by retooling how the jewels are branded.

Digging into the four c's of diamonds — color, cut, clarity and carat — are key, both to gauge the quality of a stone and understand where you might make trade - offs (or not), Chertoff said.

So a diamond is mined somewhere in Africa and traded several times before it makes it to one of the exchanges.

The Exchange platform, the first of its kind globally, will utilize proven exchange technology to create a new marketplace for the global diamond trade.

USD$ 22 Billion worth of physical polished diamonds are traded throughout these locations each year.

The GDX is the first diamond market index of its kind, based on the daily diamond trading data within the IDE.

There, visitors learn of Venetian traders who brought diamonds to Europe from India, once the world's only known source, eventually establishing a permanent presence in this once - important trade centre by the 15th century.

The Kimberley Process was supposed to do the same for diamonds from all countries by banning the trade of conflict stones.

It's trade finance that provides the economic rationale to do a lot of these things: it happens to be aligned with the health benefits and the social impact of keeping blood diamonds out of the supply chain, but if the money wasn't there, I don't think there'd be an ability to do it,» he says.

In a further decline of the credibility of the diamond industry's way of ensuring «conflict free» diamonds, the non-governmental organization IMPACT, based in Canada, announced its departure from the Kimberley Process certification scheme the diamond industry has much touted to eradicate the trade in conflict diamonds.

The orthodox Jewish diamond dealers in Brooklyn trade stones worth thousands of dollars on a nod and a trusted word.

Reuven Kaufman, the head of the Diamond Dealers Club of New York, sent an email to de Blasio at 9:21 p.m. on March 18, 2015, to talk about ways the city could help diamond manufacturing and support trade associations.

What is so unbelievably unique about these lines is that a substantial portion of the proceeds from sales, 100 % profit from Dreams of Africa and 25 % from AWEAR items, goes to support children in nations hit hard by the blood diamond trade.

Head to Geneva from May 10 to 13 for the first ever GemGenève trade show; three days of diamonds, emeralds, pearls and handpicked antique jewels from the best artisans.

I started off with the GB Color, GBA, SP, DS, then I traded in my DS for a DS Lite because I wanted to play the new pokemon diamond, but of course I bought it for other games than pokemon.

by Walter Chaw David Yates's The Legend of Tarzan is at once a long - overdue, if massively - fictionalized, biopic of George Washington Williams's time in the Congo observing colonial Belgium's abuses of the rubber, ivory, and diamond trades; and it's an adaptation, nay, updating of Edgar Rice Burroughs's first five Tarzan books, with heavy creative license taken but the spirit kept largely intact.

The Denzel Washington / Ken Watanabe token this time around is the oft - similarly - abused Djimon Hounsou: as the DC Comics - sounding Solomon Vandy, Hounsou seeks to trade a rare pink diamond for the life of his son, who's been molded by the evil Sierra Leonians into a soulless murdering / raping machine.

DIAMOND BAR, Calif. (Feb. 22, 2012)- Applications are now available to exhibit at the 2012 SEMA Show, the premier automotive trade event where manufacturers of specialty parts and accessories connect face - to - face with more than 60,000 quality buyers from throughout the world.

DIAMOND BAR, Calif. (June 11, 2010)-- The 2010 SEMA Show Exhibitor Services Manual (ESM) is now available at www.SEMAShow.com/esm, making this the earliest that the document has ever been offered to exhibitors of the annual trade show.

DIAMOND BAR, Calif. (Sept. 27, 2017)-- SEMA Ignited, the official after - party of the trade - only SEMA Show, returns for the fourth consecutive year on Friday, November 3, at the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) Gold Lot.

DIAMOND BAR, Calif. (August 17, 2015)- The industry is preparing for a busy and productive Friday at the 2015 SEMA Show, with interest and activities growing on the fourth and final day of the annual trade show taking place Tuesday - Friday, Nov. 3 - 6, in Las Vegas, NV.

In light of Zynga's (ZNGA) rapid descent from its IPO (the stock trades at a 48 % discount to its IPO price), this company may have a unique diamond in the rough.

Or maybe you just want to know that your diamond was part of a fair trade.

Workers who enter into the diamond trade of their own free will don't necessarily get a big payoff at the end of the day.

Researchers concluded that the industry as a whole may be substantially shortchanging countries that are responsible for the bulk of the diamond mining trade.

Today, efforts have been put in place to stop the trade of conflict diamonds.

But although the stones are often high - quality, the added price doesn't necessarily translate to added quality,» Mark Rapaport of the diamond - trading network, The Rapaport Group, told Marketwatch.

I wouldn't trade my time with Bearsie for the equivalent of our combined weight in perfect diamonds!»

Hyderabad sits at an ancient crossroads of commerce, and was once famous as a pearl and diamond trading center.

It is one of the world centres for the diamond trade and has the third largest port in Europe.

You can also explore the Diamond District, where 70 % of the world's diamonds are traded.

Third, what about all of the money people spent on diamonds (SimCity Social's premium currency that can be traded for rare buildings and features)?

-- Nintendo previously made Zelda games by making small areas and connecting them together — For Breath of the Wild, the team first had to figure out what needed to be placed on the map — Groups were created out of the over 300 devs to work on specific sections of the world — Game Informer's demo starts at Serenne Stable — Yammo runs this place — Link can rest in bed and restore health here — Stable also lets you store horses, meet with merchants, NPCs — Stables are located throughout the world — Each one is run by a distinct character — You can spend rupees on a more expensive bed, giving you an extra heart the next morning — These hearts are yellow and can't be recovered if you're hit in combat — Spending time by fires in the world passes time — Dynamic weather system in the game, with the world reacting as a result — Ex: when it starts raining, NPCs outside the stable quickly go inside — Beedle is back to sell you goods — Have to be careful during a thunderstorm, since your metal items can attract thunder — Metal weapons and shields can be discarded or thrown at enemies — Link can get killed by lightning — Difficulty dips / spikes depending on where you are, since you can go around it and avoid it until you're stronger — Over 100 Shrines — You can find an item that identifies Shrines — Discover a Shrine for it to be a fast - travel point — Shrines also give a Spirit Orb — Trade in orbs for unknown items — Dedicated team handled animal A.I. — Bears, wolves, deer move through the snow — You can get overwhelmed by enemies quickly — Link can keep multiple horses at a time — Affection / loyalty important with horses — Feed and take care of horses to raise their stats — Can call horses over to you, but horses need to be within a certain proximity to be called — Horses can be killed by enemies — Aonuma «wanted players to choose their own path», so no companion character in this game — Stamina meter encopasses sprinting, paragliding, climbing — Meter can be upgraded, but Nintendo won't say how — Different shields have different speeds and level of control for snowboarding — Can mine rocks which can be solid for rupees or used for crafting — Can place stamps to mark areas of interest — 100 of these symbols can be used on the map, including sword, shield, bow and arrow, pot, star, chest, skull, leaf, diamond — Every style of weapon has a unique set of animations and feel different — No invincible weapons in the game, Nintendo says — Zelda can get mad at you and scold you — Players can see the ending without seeing everything from the story — A certain element was added in the game to make for a more cohesive storyline — Most difficult Zelda game to make — Aonuma is still finding new things in the world

The aspect that makes Diamonds the most powerful game currency is that it can be easily traded for any of the above mentioned currency.

As you may know from the podcasts, I'm still waist deep in Breath of the Wild, and I couldn't resist parodying the guy that trades you a diamond for ten luminous stones.

I had no idea that art game developer Jason Rohrer (Passage, Sleep Is Death) has been maintaining a blog dedicated to his intriguing DS project Diamond Trust of London, but here it is — he's actually been regularly posting stuff on the multiplayer strategy title about blood diamond trading in Angola.

A copy of Global Witness ’ report “ For a Few Dollars More, How al Qaeda moved into the diamond trade ” is available in pdf format at www.globalwitness.org/reports Editor ’ s Notes (i) “ Liberian is Accused of Harboring al Qaeda ”, Douglas Farah, Washington Post, 15 May 2003 (ii) “ Trabelsi Wanted to Kill Americans ”, Report by Mark Eeckhaut, May 28, 2003, FBIS Translated Text.

They will therefore be excluded from the scheme until their legislation is put in place, and will be banned from trading in rough diamonds as of August 31, 2003.

But NGOs stressed that without adequate monitoring of the KPCS there is no way of ensuring that countries are actually halting the trade in conflict diamonds.

If it had ANY merit at all Engineers would build them — at the very least they would reduce emissions and the extra «free heat» and pressure could be utilised to catalyse CO2 into diamonds thus ending one of the scourges of mankind — the blood diamond trade.

This year, further reports confirmed that production and trade of sanctioned Ivorian diamonds continues, and stated that traders in Dubai were in possession of large quantities of uncertified rough diamonds of African origin.3

The UN reported in 2006 that US$ 23 million of conflict diamonds were smuggled out of Côte d'Ivoire into the international trade.

The trade in blood diamonds has led to devastating wars in Sierra Leone, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Liberia and over 4 million people have died as a result of these wars.