Sentences with phrase «as poker chips»

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a poker chips, items wanted.

After all, the tokens, roughly the same size and weight as poker chips (and valued at 0.1 Ether, or about $ 56 apiece), could be dangerous if dropped from high.

In this tenth volume the full and complete novel, Heaven Painted as a Poker Chip, plus four short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and many other features.

-- Finished the novel Heaven Painted as a Poker Chip: A Ghost of a Chance novel.

In this tenth volume the full and complete novel, Heaven Painted as a Poker Chip, plus five short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and many other features.

Not exact matches

One example of this process, confusingly, might even be the United States in the 1920s, as Marriner Eccles (the brilliant Federal Reserve chairman under then - president Franklin D. Roosevelt) explained endlessly to an uncomprehending elite: if all the chips at the poker table are held by the same few players, the only way the rest can keep playing with them is to borrow chips, even though in the end they will not be able to repay the loans.

When Cadillac Jack Grimm bought $ 10,000 worth of chips and sat down at a green felt table in Binion's Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas two weeks ago, he had no real hope that he might stand up a couple of days later as champion of this year's World Series of Poker.

Professional gamblers, at least in Las Vegas, are not as reluctant to talk about their winnings as they were a few years ago when IRS agents were known to rush up to a poker or baccarat table and grab chips away from a delinquent taxpayer.

However, to have law enforcement become the poker chip in this disagreement is troubling to all of us, and even more so for me as the only member of the law enforcement community serving on the county legislature.

Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba are good enough but «Molly's Game» as a whole feels as stale as a pretzel sitting in a bowl by the poker chips.

Use manipulatives — physical items such as gummy bears, poker chips, or small cookies — to show students how to create groups (such as seven groups of three) so they can observe in a concrete way that multiplication is just a quick way of adding groups.

The root of the term «blue chip» stems from the game of poker, as the blue chips represent the highest value.

as the Collectors Edition for New Vegas has been revealed, and shall contain: ♠ «Lucky 7» poker chips.

This feature also works on the enemy units, but if they are outside your units» viewing range, then they will show up as red poker chips.

The only open world activities are stock standard challenges such as speed traps, jumps, and drift zones; and collection items such as smashable billboards and poker chips that pad your bank account.

While the manner in which the artist dutifully applies oils — almost as if he were stacking poker chips — is likable, Mr. Burton's paint handling never takes off.

But the tedious, almost quixotic nature of the endeavor — forcing a dense impasto from delicate color pencils — leads one to suspect that the motivation originates not in the common culture, but in a more holistic domain that includes lived experience: as a schoolboy, Grotjahn was rewarded for achievements with poker chips meant to be «cashed in» for prizes.

Abstract paintings are some of the best poker chips, as evidenced by their being flipped in recent years.

Instead of playing other sectors of the Canadian economy as chips in some high - stakes game of pipeline poker, Harper should affirm Canadian sovereignty — and confirm U.S. fecklessness — by fast - tracking energy projects of all description.