Sentences with phrase «poker chips by»

Elsewhere, homes are made into poker chips by eminent domain.

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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.
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.
The poker players flicking chips in state budget negotiations must do right by the children who attend charter schools, among them 105,000 (and counting) in New York City.
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.
The Collector's Edition of Fallout: New Vegas includes Fallout: New Vegas; «Lucky 7» poker chips, replicas from the ones found in the game; a deck of Fallout: New Vegas themed playing cards; a replica of the «Lucky 38» poker chip (The Platinum Chip) from the game; «All Roads», a graphic novel about the history of Fallout: New Vegas written by Chris Avellone; and a «The Making of Fallout: New Vegas» chip (The Platinum Chip) from the game; «All Roads», a graphic novel about the history of Fallout: New Vegas written by Chris Avellone; and a «The Making of Fallout: New Vegas» Chip) from the game; «All Roads», a graphic novel about the history of Fallout: New Vegas written by Chris Avellone; and a «The Making of Fallout: New Vegas» DVD.
The terse content of the email is: «skull chips and laptops», which either illustrates or is illustrated by an iPhone quality image of a couple of classic Mac laptops mouse pads with round holes drilled into the mouse pad and white - bone looking objects, ostensibly the size of poker chips, inserted into the holes.
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.
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