Sentences with phrase «as limousine»

Working as a limousine driver for over five years has instilled in me the capacity to work diligently in a customer oriented environment.

If you spring for the optional air suspension ($ 1,000) you get an additional ride setting, Comfort, that is as limousine - like as you can get from a car with a 111 - inch wheelbase (the longer the wheelbase, the less the car pitches going over bumps).

The 2016 E-Class is taking one more step towards autonomous driving, as the limousine is capable of automatically keeping the right distance behind the vehicle in front, of following it at a speed of up to 210 km / h and of overtaking it when the driver commands it.

The wagon would be offered in a standard - wheelbase configuration, as previewed by the show car set for Paris, but Porsche is considering a long - wheelbase variant for selected markets to boost its suitability as a limousine.

Yet that's what we demand in a proper GT car, for it to be as relaxing as a limousine on the run to the Alps but for it be as sharp as a sport car as a soon as you hit your favourite mountain pass.

The Ghost is more luxurious than the BMW, however, and does an even better job as a limousine.

Lexus» flagship LS 460 full - size sedan is available in standard form and as a limousine - like long - wheelbase LS 460 L model that stretches nearly 204 inches from bumper to bumper — 5 inches more than the standard model.

Remember, the Equus was originally designed as a limousine meant to transport rear passengers in extreme comfort.

Michael is a now - retired boxer (and incidentally shares his name with a real - life Irish Olympic medallist in the same sport) who is employed as a limousine driver around the streets of New York City.

Cahill said the Assembly bill makes ride - hailing services subject to the same local and state sales taxes as limousine services, to make sure local governments receive a greater share in revenue from the taxes.

One California regulator believes Uber should be classified as a charter - party carrier — the same type of transportation as limousines and tour...

Alternatives such as limousines, taxicabs, busses, etc. can be called upon for those seniors who choose to take online dating to the next level.

In Europe, cars like the 7 - Series are referred to as «executive saloons» and are often used as limousines.

But in addition, the service can help you acquire more unique reservations such as limousines, exotic cars, private jets, and international cell phones.

But in addition, the service can help you acquire more unique reservations such as limousines, exotic cars, private jets, and international cell phones.

Not exact matches

As a kid, he recalled roller skating to school up Fifth Avenue, followed by the family limousine.

The 407GX, which Bell bills as a «limousine» in the sky, can be custom built to seat up to six passengers.

Kalanick deserves enormous credit for envisioning Uber as a transportation service that would disrupt and transform the entire land - based travel industry — including both the oligopolistic, old - fashioned taxi services and the overpriced limousine industry.

In the end, Sukhanov may no longer have his chauffeured limousine, but he may have found not only his soul but God as well.

Families of the victims accompanied black and white hearses in limousines as fire marshals and sheriff's deputies shepherded hundreds more - some in funeral attire, others in everyday clothes - to the service in Floresville, Texas, about 12 miles from the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, where the shooting occurred.

In particular, I recalled how, back in 1993, when Trump decided he wanted to build special limousine parking lots around his Atlantic City casino and hotel, he had used all his influence to get the state of New Jersey to steal the home of an elderly widow named Vera Coking by declaring «eminent domain» over her property, as well as over a nearby pawn shop and a small family - run Italian restaurant.

He comes with the hotel, as it were, or with the airplane or the limousine.

If the bigger twin - engines and turboprops belong in the limousine class, then such practical workhorses as short takeoff and landing (STOL) planes and seaplanes must be likened to jeeps and dune buggies.

Williams was always the life of that party, just as he was on Feb. 14, 2002, a night that began with him treating his friends to drinks and ended when the shotgun Williams was holding went off, killing limousine driver Costas (Gus) Christofi.

We got our backstage pass and headed to the «concert» as we blasted off in a super-stretch limousine through the darkened freeways of Los Angeles.

The budget would draw $ 500 million in new revenue from a proposed Transportation Sustainability Program that would create a $ 2.75 charge for ride hailing services like Uber and Lyft as well as black cars and limousines in Manhattan below 96th Street.

A former Oyster Bay official who for years worked as right - hand man to town supervisor John Venditto testified Tuesday that Venditto accepted free meals, free limousine services and use of office and event space from Harendra Singh that appeared, in turn, to entitle the restaurateur to «whatever services» he needed from the town.

Councilmember Ydanis Rodríguez, who represents Inwood and Washington Heights, was assigned as Chair of the Transportation Committee, which plays a key role in the oversight of the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), the Department of Transportation (DOT), New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) and the Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC).

But MADD Executive Director Richard Mallow says the current system of allowing taxi and limousine commissions in certain municipalities — such as Suffolk and Nassau continues — «has not served the public well» when it comes to current transportation options.

The proposal has attracted criticism as elitist: Staten Island State Senator Diane Savino derided the idea on her Facebook page as a «half - assed, feel - good limousine liberal approach.»

Gregory May of Plainview, who served as Nassau's first Taxi & Limousine commissioner, will move over to become the $ 115,000 consumer affairs commissioner.

He served as press secretary for Reps. Jerry Nadler and Carolyn Maloney, and also held leadership positions in the public affairs departments of the Taxi and Limousine Commission and the city's Department of Transportation.

Former Democratic NYC councilman and Taxi & Limousine Commission chairman David Yassky is being ousted as dean of the Pace University Law School following controversies that included getting back into politics behind the backs of the school's students.

Mac Roberts, the general manager of East / West Management, a New York City company that operates 120 yellow taxi cab medallions, called upon the Taxi & Limousine Commission, as well as New York State, to better regulate Uber and others, telling the Observer in a memorable anti-Uber rant:

Silver's swift decline from powerful speaker to backbench chump again demonstrates, as Donald Trump once told his chauffeur, how close the back seat of the limousine is to the front.

Portland, Oregon (CNN)-- The presidential limousine, known colloquially as «The Beast,» carried what was probably one of its youngest passengers ever on Wednesday evening.

The mayor, who attended the press conference together with Taxi and Limousine Commissioner David Yassky, New York State Assemblymembers Guillermo Linares, of northern Manhattan, and Carl Heastie, of the Bronx, and members of the livery cab industry, spoke to the color as one that was «attractive and distinctive.»

It is, as one founding member wrote, «nothing more than a bunch of Park Slope limousine liberals.»

Kevin Barwell, the president of the Limousine, Bus, Taxi Operators of Upstate New York, said Uber and Lyft could operate upstate now, had they followed the same rules as other for - hire vehicles.

«It comes down to this: The riding public of Nassau County needs to be safe, and they're not going to be safe without a government - conducted fingerprint background check,» said Larry Blessinger, who runs several taxi and limousine companies in Nassau and serves as president of the Nassau & Suffolk Taxi Owners Association.

He said he provided the two officials with benefits such as free meals at his restaurants, a no - show job paying a total of $ 450,000 for Mangano's wife, Linda, and free limousine services for Venditto and his inner circle.

Limousines «nose» their way through traffic, except in the case of Peter Mandelson's «blue, premier - class Jaguar» which is described as having «snouted through the gates of Downing Street».

He threw a jab at union leaders though, describing them as «driven around in chauffeured limousines.»

They are in New York City, which is Uber's biggest U.S. market and is the rare municipality that has the requisite financial and regulatory muscle to force Uber and Lyft to operate as a traditional for - hire car service, complete with the Taxi & Limousine Commission - mandated driver fingerprinting.

As chair of the transportation committee, Rodriguez will have more oversight on agencies including the MTA, Department of Transportation and the Taxi and Limousine Commission.

As an April 1 budget deadline looms, the company says the boards set up to oversee ride - hailing in Suffolk and Nassau counties are stacked with taxi and limousine owners — the very people that are Uber and Lyft's direct business competitors.

GOP opponents blasted the attorney general as «out of touch» and a «limousine liberal,» but a spokesman said Schneiderman pays for his own lodging out of pocket.

The state Assembly has put forward a congestion pricing plan as part of its budget that includes a $ 2.75 fee for ride hail cars, limousines and black cars for each trip below 96th Street, $ 1 for trips above 96th Street and a 50 - cent fee for yellow taxis and green cab street hails below 96th Street.

Staten Island State Senator Diane Savino has repeatedly mocked the proposal as a «half - assed, feel - good, limousine liberal» approach to the problem, and suggested expanding recycling programs or banning carry - out bags entirely.

Venditto is accused of having Singh pay for free limousine service for himself and his family, getting discount rates for fundraisers at a Singh restaurant, and use of a conference room as an office in the basement of a Singh restaurant.