Sentences with phrase «more than a toy»

Anyone outside the offender's bubble is little more than a toy, conquest, opportunity, or expendable.

Nothing would delight many children more than a toy box in the shape of a big yellow school bus.

This is more than a toy.

Think of playtime as more than toy time.

And as much as that Spanish IKEA commercial reminds us parents that kids want time, attention, and affection more than toys for Christmas, kids want the stuff too.

Stuffed toys are more than toys, they are very personal to each and every child.

Men play with children differently — they tend to use their bodies more than toys in child's play, Pruett says.

But Galaxy Zoo is much more than a toy.

Looking for more than a toy, but unwilling to spend top dollar to have a hobby shop custom - build a drone?

Thus, stray cats are in fact evil creatures capable of killing in an instant, and aeroplanes are nothing more than toys moving overhead.

Skilled adults are needed in the lives of students to make an iPad more than a toy.

Having played with one of these myself, and having seen students play with it, I can fully say that this toy is much more than a toy.

It's a slider device with both touch - screen and traditional keypad, and as such, its overall functionality should really be compared to other slider devices like Palm's Pre — which, by the way, is a nothing more than a toy, compared to the Torch, at least from a hardware perspective.

While it's true that few places can compete with the vast selection of toys that you can find in every nook and cranny of Toys «R «Us, a good number of credit cards can compete with the «R «Us Credit Card's limited usability, giving you rewards you can earn — and redeem — on far more than toys.

But, if you really must buy a toy for your bunny, you can be sure that he / she will also love the cardboard packaging (perhaps even more than the toy itself).

To learn why a chew toy is more than a toy, as well as what toys are dangerous, visit dog chew toys page.

For some, they are seen as no more than toys (in fact, some dogs breeds are known as toy dogs).

so I'd have to say they like treats more than toys (although three of them love toys, too)

The battered skateboard at her feet is symbolic of more than a toy.

Orbea, the Spanish bicycle manufacturer that believes that kids love vehicles more than toys, just launched GROW bikes in Spain.

When we point out to kids the effort that people took to come visit us, or the time they gave to show us something, or an act of kindness they displayed, we're teaching them to see gifts as more than toys they can play with.

But it's more than a toy to Raymond Crossman, psychologist and president of the Adler School of Professional Psychology.

Not exact matches

That won't surprise anyone who's seen the recent New York City Department of Consumer Affairs report on gender pricing in the city, which found that toys and accessories marketed at girls cost an average of 7 % more than similar products aimed at boys.

Sinclair also aimed to work with tech startups to add technology in a more appropriate manner to toys (after internal efforts led to so - so results) and aimed to make decisions at a faster pace than in the past.

Larian, the CEO of the toy company MGA Entertainment, on Friday bid $ 890 million for more than 300 Toys R Us stores in the US and Canada.

On deck for this year: Taking the knowledge garnered from selling more than 20 million products and using it to develop a Bark & Co. - branded line of toys and treats.

It felt underpowered, and old, and cheap — the «build quality» of the device was more toy - like than most personal electronics.

Despite its struggles, Toys «R» Us results show that there's still demand for toys — with he company generating more than $ 7 billion in annual sales in the U.S.

The e-commerce giant will provide items such as winter clothing, toys and household essentials to be sent to more than a dozen hyperlocal nonprofits located near Amazon fulfillment centers in cities ranging from Boston to Chicago and Sacramento, California.

Although the toy tree frogs and the swinging Peruvian band might soften buyers, they won't bowl them over any more than the whiz - bang products did.

Think about how Disney has launched more than just merchandise to accompany all their major film releases - beyond the movie and toys there are often online and video games and more recently apps released with them.

Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps says «smartwatches are sci - fi inventions that are already anachronisms in this modern world,» while Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi says the Gear is «more an overpriced toy than a device that really drives value to consumers.»

If you look at Hettinger's Kickstarter campaign for her «classic spinner,» you'll notice that the prototype looks more like a hatted Frisbee than the toys tormenting teachers in U.S. classrooms.

More than just toys, this year's drones will likely offer capabilities such as the ability to avoid crash landings and perhaps specialized features for using them in different types of environments.

North Americans now spend more on pet accessories than they do on children's toys, and they treat their pets «as actual family,» says Little.

The online retailer now has more than a dozen Amazon Books stores, which also sell toys, electronics and small gifts.

The toy firm unveiled its Kahlo Barbie after striking a deal with the Panama - based Frida Kahlo Corporation, which got the rights to Kahlo's image from one of her nieces, Isolda Pinedo Kahlo, more than a decade ago.

While holiday hires account for half of all new hires in the fourth quarter, their distribution is uneven; more new employees can be found at hobby, toy and game stores than anywhere else.

It's the holiday season, which means a lot of people are spending more time than usual in toy stories.

Sterling spent the next year creating the toy, studying gender differences and cognitive development in children, writing a business plan and doing in - home testing with a prototype with more than 100 boys and girls in three schools and more than 40 homes.

Spin Master's Bakugan toys were launched in 2007 in conjunction with a Japanese - Canadian anime series called Bakugan Battle Brawlers and, according to the Toronto company's claim, global sales reached more than US$ 1 billion.

The toy titan has more than 5,000 employees around the world and annual revenues north of $ 4 billion.

First, he reacted to population changes, then he shifted his product category from furniture to toys, because families with more than one child often used the same crib and high chair, but they kept buying new toys for new kids.

He stayed in charge through the company's apex, leaving in 1994 when more toys were sold at Toys R Us than anywhere else in retail.

Co-founded by CEO Clément Perrot and CTO David Zhang, the product is more than a whimsical toy.

Toys Go Green, an empirical study of German consumers in November 2010, also reported that «in the last 12 months, more than 80 percent of consumers bought sustainable toys and are intending to do so in the future as well.»

In more than a decade, Dermer has crisscrossed the globe, evaluating more than 40,000 toys, meeting with everyone from strange tinkerers toiling in their basements, to rocket scientists, mompreneurs and, of course, professional inventors.

On the other hand, more Republicans than Democrats say it's a bad thing to encourage young boys to play with toys or participate in activities typically associated with girls.

GlobalData Retail estimates that nearly 14 percent of toy sales were made online in 2016, more than double the level five years ago.

They tend to view life as a game, which one «wins» by accumulating more toys / money than one's rivals.