Sentences with phrase «than a diamond at»

If you want to stand above the crowd, your writing needs to glitter brighter than a diamond at midday.

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De Beers spokesman Andrew Coxon estimated the value of conflict diamonds produced from three African states involved in civil war at more than US$ 255 million.

Hermès matte white Himalaya Niloticus crocodile diamond Birkin sold for more than $ 379,000 at Christie's in Hong Kong

A decade ago, the Leonardo DiCaprio flick Blood Diamond did more to bring awareness to conflict diamonds than a decade of firsthand reporting, because the general public had a shared experience at the theater.

As one of the many properties in the Velas Resorts portfolio, which have earned no less than 43 diamonds by AAA, I had high expectations for my own stay at the location — especially given it has garnered 8 of those diamonds in its own right.

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.

Song, arguably our most improved player is on 4 yellow cards and we should ensure that he doesn't miss the Chelsea game.The partnership of Gallas and Vermaelen is outstanding, yet one can not expect them to play in every game, and it is in that are we are weak in cover.With regards to the full back situation, perm any two from four, that is Clichy, Gibbs, Eboue, Sagna and even Traore they are attacking wing backs and are always at risk on the quick counter attack by the opposition.Almunia still doesn't impress me and his command of his area is still indecisive and he is still vulnerable to letting goals in, especially to his near post.Wenger being Wenger, I doubt he will buy in January, and it is a pity we didn't go for Given months before he joined City, when he was available for a comparatively cheap price.This new diamond shape or 4 -1-4-1 is working well and we have an abundance of quality to interchange, which bemuses the opposition more often than not.We have every chance this year, and we are also being helped by the fact that the other so called big four sides are showing their vulnerability.A couple of decent signings, not squad players in January, and hopefully we are in the mix.

While you may covet diamond earrings or a gorgeous tennis bracelet, when you've got kids you probably spend more time dressed for breakfast at IHOP than dressed like Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast At Tiffany'at IHOP than dressed like Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast At Tiffany'At Tiffany's!

More than 100 people gathered for the ceremony on the 11 - acre site at 187th and Center Streets in Homewood that will be transformed within a year into a park with baseball diamonds, a walking / biking path, a picnic area with a volleyball court and a playground.

Many of the successful bidders were part of the exhibition at Kensington Palace on October 9th, where more than US$ 65 million of one - of - a-kind pink diamond jewellery was showcased to celebrate royal connections in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee year.

Made to cut both straight and serrated knives, it has a two - stage diamond coated wheel that can get your knives sharper than ever and ready to go in no time at all.

That's at least 100 times larger than the nanodiamonds that form when planetary objects collide, and it's far larger than diamonds that form by condensing from carbon vapor inside clouds of interplanetary gas and dust.

According to Charlier, the diamonds form at a rate 1000 times faster than observed for carbon vapor deposition.

At certain temperatures, they found that the combined material's stiffness was greater than the conventionally calculated maximum — greater even than if they had embedded the tin with diamond.

Together with his daughter Wendy and other colleagues at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC, he was using the device to test materials at pressures many millions of times higher than those at the Earth's surface — higher even than in our planet's core — by squeezing them between two tiny diamond jaws.

The team's simulations reveal that diamond - like carbon film is formed at the atomic level in a different way than was thought.

It's a lab in the Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information at the University of Bristol, UK, and the diamonds stored here are each no bigger than a speck of dust.

By using light, researchers at UC Santa Barbara have manipulated the quantum state of a single atomic - sized defect in diamond — the nitrogen - vacancy center — in a method that not only allows for more unified control than conventional processes, but is more versatile, and opens up the possibility of exploring new solid - state quantum systems.

Diamonds form only at temperatures and pressures far greater than those on Earth's surface.

Most diamonds excavated from the Earth's surface formed at depths of less than 125 miles (200 km), but others, such as the Juina diamonds, have yielded rare, superdeep diamonds.

Using diamond anvil cells (DAC), the team applied 2.5 GPa of pressure (25 thousand atmospheres) to pre-compress water into the room - temperature ice VII, a cubic crystalline form that is different from «ice - cube» hexagonal ice, in addition to being 60 percent denser than water at ambient pressure and temperature.

But so far, decoherence, a degradation of the delicate states caused by noise in the environment, has prevented researchers from storing more than a few bits of linked quantum information in a diamond crystal at a time.

Prior static compression experiments also saw hints of carbon forming graphite or diamond at lower pressures than the ones created in this experiment, but with other materials introduced and altering the reactions.

«The transformation to hexagonal diamond occurs at a significantly lower stress than previously believed,» said WSU Regents Professor Yogendra Gupta, director of the Institute for Shock Physics and a co-author of the study.

Water may be more common than expected at extreme depths approaching 640 kilometres and possibly beyond — within Earth's lower mantle, says a study that explored microscopic pockets of a trapped form of crystallised water molecules in a sampling of diamonds from around the world.

Some of the tests still stand, but as various stones share qualities with diamonds, it's important to look at more than one aspect of the stone.

The interior design is much nicer than BMW in my opinion with the diamond pattern seats and I like how the S6 logo in the door lights up when you open your doors at night.

DIAMOND BAR, Calif. (March 25, 2009)-- Manufacturers of automotive specialty - equipment products will find it easier than ever to exhibit at the 2009 SEMA Show, taking place November 3 - 6, 2009, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

DIAMOND BAR, Calif. (June 30, 2009)-- More than 10 % of exhibitors have increased their booth size at the 2009 SEMA Show.

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.

It's easy to sneer at this 1998 Limited Edition's orange air intake — a nod to 1960s BRM racers — and diamond - stitched red leather, but it was more than a 200Vi in silly clothes.

DIAMOND BAR, Calif. (Sept. 8, 2011)-- Among the more than 2,000 companies that will be exhibiting at the 2011 SEMA Show are 528 first - time exhibitors.

DIAMOND BAR, Calif. (June 25, 2010)-- To help SEMA Showgoers get the best hotel prices while at the 2010 SEMA Show, dozens of hotels in Las Vegas are offering considerable discounts, with rates as low as $ 39 per night and more than a dozen properties waiving the newly instituted «resort fees» currently implemented throughout the city.

The display has diamond pixels (see below) and sub-pixel rendering with 518 pixels per inch (ppi), providing significantly higher image sharpness than can be resolved with normal 20/20 vision at the typical viewing distances of 10 inches or more for smartphones, so the display appears perfectly sharp.

Diamonds, Danger, and A Deadly Secret... A Katerina Carter Legal ThrillerOut of work and running out of money, Private Investigator and Fraud Expert, Katerina Carter, desperately needs more clients or she'll be forced to go crawling back to a cubicle at her previous firm, a fate worse than debt.So when Liberty Diamond Mines CEO Susan Sullivan hires Kat to find Liberty's missing CFO and a large sum of embezzled money, she's eager to accept the job.

Sure, there's been some hoopla about AT&T's 4G HSPA + performance on the ATRIX, but it still packs plenty of punch with a killer dual - core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor clocked at 1 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, Android 2.2 (Froyo), and a sharper - than - diamonds 960 x 540 - pixel display.

With over 10 years of experience in the fields of research, marketing, sales and distribution, Opperman saw in his situation, an opportunity to create a platform where sellers receive more money than ever thought possible, while at the same time the buyers are able to purchase diamonds and jewelry at below retail prices; for the first time ever, a unique model that adds value to both sides of the equation.

When you're looking at diamonds side - by - side like this, it may be easier to pick out which diamond looks more yellow than its neighbor.

As authorized resellers for the finest designer brands such as Tacori, Verragio, Simon G, Ritani, Danhov, Vatche, and Benchmark, and as the exclusive provider of our own A CUT ABOVE ® Super Ideal Diamonds, there is no better place to create a truly extraordinary piece for your special occasion than at Whiteflash.

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

New diamond must costs at least 50 % more than the original diamond's value.

New diamond must cost at least 50 % more than the original diamond's value.

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.

That's actually better than looking at diamonds at a local store.

To make a profit, investors must at some time find buyers who are willing to pay more for their diamonds than they did.

Long recognized as hallmark of memorable events at the exclusive beach destinations of Riviera Nayarit by Puerto Vallarta area, the family - owned Grand Velas brand holds more than 20 years of hospitality tradition offering world - class service awarded 5 Diamonds by AAA, luxurious accommodations, flexible meeting spaces and fine dining experience.

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.

At some points it's physically impossible to get past a guard during the night because your noise diamond is wider than the margin of space you need to slip through, and your only options are to either accept that the route is a lost cause, or... wait until morning.

Killing more than one Sno - bee at a time will also provide you with extra points, as will linking up all the diamond blocks together, either horizontally or vertically.

The title is monetized through a premium currency, diamonds, which can be used for buying weapons, clothing, and item components as well as for unlocking additional crafting slots so that more than one item can be crafted at once.