Sentence examples for diamonds those from inspiring English sources

Over the past few years, there has been a lot of discussion about conflict diamonds — those mined in combat zones and sold to pay for warfare.

Recent films include "The Last King of Scotland", about Uganda's psychopathic dictator, Idi Amin, and lastly "Blood Diamond", a story of child soldiers and conflict diamonds (those that help fuel wars) set against the backdrop of Sierra Leone's civil war in the 1990s.

The report of the Kimberley investigators did not accuse Zimbabwe of having produced so-called conflict diamonds, those used to support armed conflicts, but said the military-run smuggling operation undermined the controls on the industry, allowing an opening for them to enter the market.

For Mr. Diamond, those letters are at the core of the book, demonstrating, he said, that "Reeves could have been a very good writer".

Combined with the high mechanical stability of diamond, those properties are being used in prototype high-power switches for power stations.

I had 11 tricks: four spades, three hearts, two diamonds and those two club ruffs.

Measures are under discussion to encourage countries that export diamonds and those that import them to try to match their returns.

It announced last year that it would stop buying all Angolan diamonds, except those it was contractually obligated to buy from the Angolan government.

Mrs. Romney eschews sprays of diamonds like those that Callista Gingrich wears at her throat, though in recent appearances she has rarely been seen without a double strand of berry-size pearls reminiscent of no one so much as Barbara Bush.

"As it turns out the giant diamonds on those rings — a not uncommon sighting at the St . Regis— would send light in 50 different directions, temporarily blinding our sensing algorithms," said Jared Schiffman, co-founder of Potion, the New York interaction design firm that developed the digital menu.

But human rights groups want Zimbabwe to remain banned from selling "blood diamonds" - those which are used to fuel a conflict.