"diamond" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The illicit diamonds are hitting a market that, it turns out, is not as immune to the world recession as it seemed.
- DeBeers has repeatedly maintained that it does not buy illicit diamonds.
- American and European officials say, though, that while most of DeBeers' trade may be legal, its dealers also buy illicit diamonds.
- "Once you were offered a hundred thousand pounds: illicit diamonds, and you couldn't bring yourself to take them."
- Human rights groups were accusing it of buying illicit diamonds from African rebels and rulers who used the proceeds to help pay for their wars.
- But as for the Guineans - did they deal in illicit diamonds?
- "Because of weaknesses of the system," it said, "the United States cannot ensure that illicit rough diamonds are not traded."
- The husband, wanting nothing to do with his famous wife, isn't lost and is in Africa attempting to use money he embezzled to purchase illicit diamonds.
- A separate effort to combat the sale of illicit diamonds is under way at an international conference in Botswana this week.
- Blood diamonds are illicit diamonds procured from war zones and used to fund conflict.
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