Many gemstones are used in even the most expensive jewelry, depending on the brand name of the designer, fashion trends, market supply, treatments, etc.

The financial markets posed problems for established borrowers and even more for Tengzhong, a little-known company from western China, at the same time as the potential value of the Hummer brand continued to decline given high fuel prices and weak consumer demand.

Teaming with director Frank Tashlin, whose background as a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon director suited Lewis's brand of humor, he starred in five more films, and even appeared uncredited as Itchy McRabbitt in Li ' l Abner ( 1959 ).

He also told the board that his new company would not compete with Apple and might even consider licensing its designs back to them to market under the Macintosh brand.

Furthermore, the brand makes extensive use of the French language in its advertising campaigns, even though the beer brand originates from the monolingual Dutch-speaking city of Leuven.

Thomson bought the company that developed PAL, Telefunken, and today even co-owns the RCA brand — RCA being the creator of NTSC.

Mercedes Benz cars were owned by Enver Hoxha and reportedly favored by his officials, giving the brand a foothold even before private ownership of cars was legalized.

He became closely associated with the brand during the 1980s, even appearing in commercials for them.

The Noodler's Ink Company even goes so far as to maintain a " zero disposable cartridge " policy and refuses to issue any cartridges due to their high levels of economic and environmental waste ( a single bottle of ink can represent a few hundred international cartridges at between 350 % and 780 % the cost of similar bottled ink on a volume / dye content comparison depending upon different brand costs ).

An even more confusing, contradictory definition is a company that sells the product of a second company under its own brand name.

These acquisitions were uneven, varying in brand and model not just between school boards, but among schools within boards and even classroom to classroom.

Alongside fellow prescient acts like Björk, Orbital and Future Sound of London, they are known as one of the pioneers of IDM in Europe, having pushed the frontiers of their unique brand of electronica in the early 1990s, before the genre was even officially fathered later in the decade.

Branson has also developed a Virgin Cola brand and even a Virgin Vodka brand, which has not been a very successful enterprise.

The department, being brand new, had limited qualifying criteria for entrance and agreed to interview Bull even though he was only sixteen years old – and he was accepted into the undergraduate program.

It might be noteworthy that even though DB assigned the name ICE-T to class 411 / 415, the T originally did not stand for tilting but for Triebwagen ( self-propelled car ), as DB's marketing department at first deemed the top speed too low for assignment of the InterCityExpress brand and therefore planned to refer to this class as IC-T ( InterCity-Triebwagen ).

Nipper lives on through the brand names ; he even appeared in ads on television with his " son ", a puppy named Chipper who was added to the RCA family in 1991.

The game also features six brand new boards and modes ( including Mini-Game Coaster, akin to the original Mario Party's Mini-Game Island where the player must beat several mini-games across 3, 6, or even 9 worlds depending on which difficulty is chosen ) The return of Mini-Game Stadium.

On September 28, 2009, the new logo is used across Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite, along with the rebranded TeenNick, Nick Jr. and Nicktoons ( formerly The N, Noggin and Nicktoons Network, respectively ) channels in varying versions customized for brand unification and refreshment purposes ; a new logo for Nickelodeon Productions also began being used in end credit tags on all Nickelodeon shows, even on episodes aired before the new logo took effect ( end credit tags of programs airing on TeenNick, Nick Jr. and some shows on Nicktoons only use the current Nickelodeon Productions logo and variants for their respective channel's original programming on episodes of series made after the rebrand ).

", meaning Preston is using the sheep thefts as an attempt to secure his own brand of dog food for profit, even if it meant murdering his owner the same way.

Ford even embraced the TH! NK concept, and marketed electrically driven bicycles as well as golf carts under the same brand.

In the late 1980s, Sun began rebranding DX stations in the Midwest to the Sunoco brand and even introduced the high-octane Sunoco ULTRA 94 gasoline to stations in that region, but by the early 1990s, they pulled out of virtually all areas in the southeastern U. S. and west of the Mississippi, resulting in the closing and rebranding of service stations and jobbers to other brands in those areas, notably Sinclair in Oklahoma.

Once electrification was complete between London, the West Midlands and the North-West, a new set of high-speed long-distance services was introduced in 1966, launching British Rail's highly successful " Inter-City " brand ( the hyphen was later dropped ) and offering such unprecedented journey times as London to Manchester or Liverpool in 2 hours 40 minutes ( and even 2 hours 30 minutes for the twice-daily Manchester Pullman ).

It is not possible to reconstruct fully the arrangements whereby these honors lists were then made up or even how the names that they contained assumed the order in which we find them.

No other names among the young men in residence at the time seem to have been even suggested by Milton as those of persons with whom he in any way consorted.

She gave me the names of some people who would surely help pay for the flowers and might even march up to the monument with me.

He was delighted to learn that the Post Office Department is now going to expand this service to deliver mail from Representatives in Congress to their constituents without the use of stamps, names, addresses or even zone numbers.

Despite exceptions such as usage in The New York Times, the names of sports teams are usually treated as plurals even if the form of the name is singular.

The adjectival epithet Areios was frequently appended to the names of other gods when they take on a warrior aspect or become involved in warfare: Zeus Areios, Athena Areia, even Aphrodite Areia.

iii. 74a ), is in the main pure Hebrew, and even includes Hebrew translations of Greek proper names, to avoid the danger of possible exposure should the letter have fallen into the hands of enemies and informers ( compare Eruvin 53b ).

Due to his poor eyesight and mild senility, he never seems to recognize either of them and he never seems to even remember their names.

For purposes of international communication and trade, the official names of the chemical elements both ancient and more recently recognized are decided by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ), which has decided on a sort of international English language, drawing on traditional English names even when an element's chemical symbol is based on a Latin or other traditional word, for example adopting " gold " rather than " aurum " as the name for the 79th element ( Au ).

* Strings that represent personal names will often be listed by alphabetical order of surname, even if the given name comes first.

The average age of the officers whose names were listed as signing the letter was 74, the oldest was 98, and Servicemembers United noted that " only a small fraction of these officers have even served in the military during the ' Don't Ask, Don't Tell ' period, much less in the 21st century military.

It occurs even more in Spanish, e. g., the deformation of names for cannabis: mota ( literally, " something that moves " on the black market ), grifa ( literally, " something coarse to the touch "), marijuana ( a female personal name, María Juana ), cáñamo ( the original Spanish name for the plant, derived from the Latin genus name Cannabis ).

A tendency developed to use European and, to a lesser extent, Asian, stage names for the same time period world wide, even though the faunas in other regions often had little in common with the stage as originally defined.

These preprocesors would typically support structured programming, variable names longer than six characters, additional data types, conditional compilation, and even macro capabilities.

Furigana commonly appear alongside kanji names and their romanizations on signs for railway stations, even if the pronunciation of the kanji is commonly known.

In China, India and other Asian countries, genealogy books are used to record the names, occupations, and other information about family members, with some books dating back hundreds or even thousands of years.

Together, Gibraltarians of Spanish origin are one of the bigger groups ( more than 24 % according to last names, even more taking into account the fact that a larger share of Spanish women married native Gibraltarians ).

According to Charles Holcombe, the early Tujue population was rather heterogeneous and many of the names of Göktürk rulers are not even Turkic.

( In these early records of apparent Germanic tribes, tribal leader names of the Cimbri and Sigambri, and tribal names such as Tencteri and Usipetes, are also apparently Gaulish, even coming from the east of the Rhine.

This may even lead to an institutional variability, as in North Korea, where, after the presidency of party leader Kim Il-Sung, the office was vacant for years, the late president being granted the posthumous title ( akin to some ancient Far Eastern traditions to give posthumous names and titles to royalty ) of " Eternal President " ( while all substantive power, as party leader, itself not formally created for four years, was inherited by his son Kim Jong Il, initially without any formal office ) until it was formally replaced on 5 September 1998, for ceremonial purposes, by the office of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, while the party leader's post as Chairman of the National Defense Commission was simultaneously declared " the highest post of the state ", not unlike Deng Xiaoping earlier in the People's Republic of China.

Mechanical tools to help humans with digital calculations were then called " calculating machines ", by proprietary names, or even as they are now, calculators.

Zoroastrianism predominated as the religion in the area, even the modern Afghan solar calendar shows the influence of Zoroastrianism in the names of the months.