Sentences with phrase «like poker chips»

When placed in water, individual molecules of the dye stack up like poker chips, forming microscopic rods.

We are treated to an unopposed election of two State Supreme Court Justices in the Third Judicial District, where such judgeships are brokered like poker chips, and thus, like it or not (or even if you have no idea who they are) you will elect Andrew G. Ceresia and Michael Mackey to 14 year terms.

Not exact matches

The wafers were being created from scratch at home long before Nabisco introduced the lightweight, poker chip - like packaged cookies in 1945.

Another technique — after you've tried other comforting things like loveys and white noise — is to give your child two poker chips and say, if you call me, that's fine and you can give me one poker chip.

And in terms of the behavior modification, it's often a really good way to reduce power struggles, when your child feels like he is working for something, and working for something doesn't have to be a toy, doesn't have to be something really expensive, it can be positive praise, it could be that they are working special time with you, special activity, we can do a token economy system which is usually the most well known behavior modification intervention, where your child can earn tickets or stickers or poker chips, and sometimes you may want to attach a reward menu to that, so they know that, «Oh, if I can save ten chips I can get this, if I can save 20 chips I can get this».