Sentences with phrase «rather than the diamond»

Interestingly he went for a 4 -2-3-1 formation rather than the diamond he used with Lyon but he stuck true to his youth philosophy.

But the offering and acceptance of «worthless» gifts — dinners rather than diamonds — showed who the truly interested and attracted females were.

On the front, you have the four familiar PlayStation face buttons, though the fact that they're arranged in a square, rather than a diamond, makes it a little hard to remember which one is where for a while.

Not exact matches

As the Financial Times (whose writer also testified) reported, a diamond - registration blockchain exec noted that the system was «garbage in, garbage out,» and a researcher designing blockchain - based voting systems said the technology would only be useful for recording final results, rather than validating individual votes.

Investors often overlook what is right in front of them, seeking diamonds on the horizon rather than the gold that is under their feet.

Carats.io developed digital tokens that represent the polished diamond industry, rather than trading the stones themselves.

FFP ensures clubs have to try and develop younger players and competitive business plans, and it provides employment, education and growth, rather than a sugar daddy throwing obscene amounts of money at the best players in the world, where the money goes into diamond earrings and hair transplants rather than developing players and facilities.

The Middle English word diaper originally referred to the type of cloth rather than its use; «diaper» was the term for a pattern of repeated, diamond shapes, and later came to describe a white cotton or linen fabric with this pattern.

Rather than the V - shapes we've seen a few times so far, these tires have tread that is made up of a series of almost diamond shaped nubs.

But rather than natural diamond, Silvera and Dias used two small pieces of carefully polished synthetic diamond which were then treated to make them even tougher and then mounted opposite each other in a device known as a diamond anvil cell.

The nature of the inclusions in these large diamonds also explains why diamond exploration and mining mostly uncovers common varieties of diamonds rather than rare large ones.

The researchers argue for its hominid status partly because of its lower canine teeth, which in cross section are diamond - shaped like those of later hominids rather than V - shaped like those of apes.

Fox aims to turn these diamond films into a new kind of solar cell, one that generates electricity by absorbing heat rather than visible - light wavelengths.

In English (rather than Latin) they mean the leaf is lance - shaped, spear - shaped, kidney - shaped, diamond shaped, arrow - head - shaped, egg - shaped, circular, spoon - shaped, heart - shaped, tear - drop - shaped or sickle - shaped — among other possibilities.

I want a diamond that truly symbolizes the true beauty of a diamond, a brilliant and everlasting stone from Earth, rather than the harsh brutality the industry of diamonds has become.»

In this look, I decided to pair more of a statement earring rather than my everyday little diamond studs, which I received as a gift years and years ago.

, a layered process, and allowed for «negative» space (the white between the diamonds), making for a sophisticated piece, rather than simply throwing paint onto the canvas and calling it «abstract» (which to me means, «I couldn't be bothered»).

A useful functional gift is something I would rather have than a diamond which ends up being in the locker!

Creating a major flaw in this diamond of a movie, makes Forrester another questionable family film rather than a real find.

Because the central idea is to use labor relations to focus on student achievement rather than on adult privileges, the core of the quality diamond is a system of standards and indicators.

The F Sport gets more of a diamond shape pattern in the grille rather than the horizontal louvers of the regular IS, something that deemphasizes the width just a bit.

I'm a very mediocre Christian, of the C.S. Lewis kind (hence the wardrobe) that figures God'll have to judge my efforts rather than my piety, because I'm a very rough diamond — a lot closer to coal than diamond.

If gold were cheap and abundant, I suspect it would be used for many more industrial applications than it is now, much like how most of the world's diamonds go for industrial rather than jewelry use.

When looking at a diamond's fire, always ask to see the stone in a white light, rather than in a colored light.

Rather than placing a diamond on these rings though, the rings would have a symbol that represented two clasped hands on them, called fede rings.

For example, you can choose to use tiny colored stones, rather than tiny diamonds, in the halo (or vice versa).

If she likes colorful stones and she likes unique jewelry, you'll want to take a look at some colored diamonds, rather than only looking at the traditional colorless diamonds.

Here's where some confusion can occur with yellow diamonds: When some people refer to a yellow diamond, they're actually referring to the color grade of a colorless diamond, rather than referring to a naturally colored diamond.

Personally, we'd rather have a J - colored diamond with an excellent cut than an H diamond with just a fair cut.

Hi Gregg, just an update further to my previous comment: more approachable options that we would recommend at each resort would be black diamond runs rather than double black diamonds, and ones that have been freshly groomed.

Besides, if the only benefit you care about is free breakfast, you would be better off with a Hyatt GP Diamond status because the claim out there is that Hyatt offers their Diamonds a free FULL breakfast rather than continental breakfast, which HHonors offers to their Golds and Diamonds.

Smithers rather than taking the diamond kidnaps Maggie and off the remaining Simpsons go off in search of Mags.

Knight of Diamonds was more like an expansion pack rather than a full sequel, so no wonder Sir - Tech didn't actually call...

Their rugged diamond - plated armor belongs in a pick - up truck bed, rather than an art gallery.

Using intuition rather than calculation, she divides the diamonds horizontally, noting that the division isn't «mathematical but it is precise, allowing me to resolve relationships of color and shape in a way that is new to me.

In order to maximize the sub-pixel packing and achieve the highest possible pixels per inch (ppi), that leads to diamond rather than square or stripe shaped Red and Blue sub-pixels.

, a layered process, and allowed for «negative» space (the white between the diamonds), making for a sophisticated piece, rather than simply throwing paint onto the canvas and calling it «abstract» (which to me means, «I couldn't be bothered»).

A traditional Kilim diamond pattern but updated with wobblier, more organic lines (rather than being rigid diamond shapes), this contemporary design has been hand - woven in Afghanistan, with abstract and a-symmetrical colour pattern.

The fact that they have been mounted in a diamond shape, rather than as squares also adds to the effect.