Sentences with phrase «not poker chips»

Labour MP Chuka Umunna, a supporter of the pro-EU Open Britain campaign, said Fox «needs to understand that he is talking about people not poker chips».

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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.
And if the explosions of dust aren't enough to show the way, the trail also is marked with bits of bright ribbon tied to bushes and trees, and poker chips and playing cards a racer has scattered here and there.
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.
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».
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.
This includes but is not limited to: barbells, weight plates, collars, boxes, ab mats, medicine balls, jump ropes, kettlebells, dumbbells, sticky notes, pens, poker chips, water bottles, and bands.
So much of managing your money correctly in the market revolves around feeling and understanding the FULL IMPACT of your wins and losses, and using poker chips or Monopoly money is a great way to constantly remind yourself that you really ARE losing REAL money that you worked hard for, or that you are making real money that you can use to better your life with (so don't gamble your profits!)
This is a very effective «trick» or tool that you can use to develop yourself into a disciplined trader, then eventually, once you've turned that discipline into a habit, you won't even need the poker chips or Monopoly money anymore.
However, when you use poker chips or Monopoly money to keep track of your trading wins and losses, you have a very real reminder and reflection of your ability to stay on track and trade with discipline, and if you break that discipline you have something staring you in the face essentially PROVING to you that you don't have the discipline to trade successfully.
While you can not see the exact unit a poker style chip shows whether it's a light or heavy unit or what sort of building it is.
Same reason why you can buy chips with real cash in the Poker games you see on console and stuff, you can't get it back out once it's in so by the letter of the law it isn't gambling.
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.
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