California s enclave of tech companies remains the crown jewel of entrepreneurial ecosystems.

With over 300 entries from around the world, I got it, my own little jewel box.

There is gold and abundance of rubies but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

There is gold and abundance of rubies but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

Salman was the consummate perfectionist, and every one of his stores was a jewel of Bauhaus architecture.

There is gold, and a multitude of rubies but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

There is gold, and a multitude of rubies but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

We are living on a precious jewel, and it's during our lifetime that we're moving off this planet.

As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

The Court can be proud of the fact that it has made judicial settlement the jewel in its crown.

And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.

And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.

Jacques Delors, one of its architects, once called the single currency the jewel in Europe s crown. Abandoning it would be tantamount to declaring the entire European integration project a failure.

So the next time you pass a jewelry shop window displaying a beautifully cut teardrop shaped stone, don't be so sure it's just your culture telling you that that sparkling jewel is beautiful.

It's got these jewel like light organs on its belly that it uses for a type of camouflage that obliterates its shadow, so when it's swimming around and there's a predator looking up from below, it makes itself disappear.

But on the edge of town, one elderly lady, a charwoman in the charnel ground, saw a jeweled foot on a jeweled lotus on his shoulder and then the dog, but she saw the jewel foot of the Maitreya, and she offered a flower.

Today, the country is believed to have about 60 working astronomers, more than half of all the astronomers working in Africa. South Africa is the jewel of African astronomy, says Charles McGruder, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Western Kentucky University.

Meanwhile, the jewel of American capitalism, the financial sector, caused the crisis and is underpinning the US current account deficit. Oil exporters aside, countries running current account surpluses, such as China, Germany, and Japan, have stronger manufacturing sectors relative to their financial sectors, while the relationship is reversed for countries running external deficits, such as the US and the United Kingdom.

It is now in the final stages of its long and difficult birth, and by the New Year should be bringing new mechanisms to bear to streamline European decision making. The jewel in its crown is to be the appointment for a 30 month term of a full time president of the European Council, which groups the heads of EU member governments, along with a foreign policy chief who will be backed by an embryonic EU diplomatic service.