Sentences with phrase «by cabbies»

The legislation was introduced after TLC officials discovered that thousands of passengers had been gouged by cabbies to the tune of $ 8 million for charging out - of - city rates on local trips.

But Pearl, a Jewish - American had been betrayed by his source, or by the cabbie, or both.

If you call for a cab in Odda, Norway, there's a chance you'll get to ride in «Blue Lightning,» the Ford Focus RS hatchback owned and operated by cabbie and rallycross enthusiast Evald Jåstad.

Not exact matches

A group of cabbies, led by Kattoua, commandeered Wu's grey minivan and prevented him from leaving the scene until city officials arrived, issued him a fine (reports put the amount at about $ 350) and towed his vehicle.

In other words, by restricting the market to retain their big slice, cabbies are also restricting the size of the pie.)

The company behind the app was started just 18 months ago in London by a sextet of founders: three cabbies and three financiers and tech experts.

First some of them deleted their accounts when the ride - hailing company did not honor a one - hour work stoppage called by New York cabbies at John F. Kennedy International Airport to protest Pres. Trump's controversial immigration order.

A cabbie driving by sniffed something delicious, leaned out his window and requested his own.

Lenticular artwork features sea plane Dusty, followed by Blade Ranger, Windlifter, and Cabbie.

Rev. Al Sharpton's daughter Ashley stiff - armed and smacked at a frantic cabbie — who she can be heard calling a «b — ch» — after she grabbed his keys over a beef in the taxi, according to cellphone video obtained by the Daily News.

A catastrophically chatty cabbie My MP returned from London one evening to the constituency to attend an awards evening hosted by a local charity.

She also backed the «spirit and mission» of a proposal by Brooklyn Councilman Brad Lander that would establish a pay floor for drivers working, as Uber and Lyft cabbies do, as independent contractors.

Or would he, without the chance to work in his scientific field, have resembled a different iconic figure, one less touted by politicians but familiar in many cities: the ultra-educated, foreign - born cabbie?

It's gone by many names; baker boy, newsboy, cabbie hat, etc..

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From the first moment that you see New York cabbie Travis Bickle, you know he's headed for a bad end, and that — to borrow the title of a film made 31 years later by a Scorsese obsessive — there will be blood.

Dark and Stormy Night is a conglomeration of decades of «old dark house» clichés into a single film, where the greedy relatives of an eccentric millionaire (joined by two hardboiled reporters, a couple of odd servants, a madwoman in the attic and a frustrated cabbie who just wants his 37 cents) gather for the reading of the will.

Johnson stars as Jack Bruno, an ex-felon trying to stay on the straight and narrow path by working as a Las Vegas cabbie.

A warm, gorgeous reflection of the off - the - wall, very British sense of humour that suffuses all of Paul King's work, from The Mighty Boosh to Bunny And The Bull, there were great visual gags (Matt King's petty thief is pursued, literally, by bear) and jokes about London life (Matt Lucas» kidnapped cabbie advising Nicole Kidman not to take the Westway at this time of night) and British life (a recorded message tells Hugh Bonneville that his phone call is «moderately» important).

By the time the movie's end credits roll, Deadpool 2 has established a new (and far less accident - prone) X-Force lineup of Deadpool, Cable, Domino, Firefist, and Dopinder the cabbie.

Taut little thriller, with unlucky but feisty cabbie John Payne caught in a frame - up, directed with panache by B - maestro Karlson («The Phenix City Story»).

A great deal of the latter two elements is provided by the less crucial supporting characters, particularly the late Peter Boyle as a clueless cabby acquaintance of Travis's, and comedian Albert Brooks as an Albert Brooks - like campaign worker.

Description: Bruce Willis stars as a down - and - out cabbie who must win the love of Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) to save Earth from destruction by Jean - Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg (Gary Oldman) and a dark, unearthly force.

As a fearless cabbie with attitude, you're driven by a single goal: to rack up the mega-bucks in fares and tips before your shift ends.

City Ru $ h is a first in the series as due to its mission - based nature there is an actual objective besides making money, and that is completing the multiple tasks given by the original games» cabbies (who now own their own taxi companies), that often revolve around a short, silly story and the one - time customers involved.

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I have never heard of a cabbie standing effectively on the last line of defense of democracy or taking the baseball bats out of the hands of disputants by advising and representing them in a resolution process (great barrister work) or making our entire economy secure by their diligence and legal opinions, and preventing literally countless problems from even arising (great solicitor work).

The #DeleteUber campaign, which was sparked by a misinterpreted attempt to break a strike by New York City cabbies, caught on because there had already been so much anger simmering against the ride - hailing company.

They learned a lot about their candidates by seeing how they reacted under pressure, how they treated the cabbie (who was in full cahoots with them), and what they did to rectify the situation.