Sentences with phrase «cabbie from»

Things get more sticky when a seductive socialite attempts to steal the cabbie from the ex-con.

I had planned on changing engines in the Cabby from day one.

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.

The data also shows declining revenues from yellow cab fares — in the first half of 2014, cabbies collected $ 1.06 billion; in the same time period this year, that revenue figure fell to $ 981 million.

Gene Schriver, executive vice president of No. 2236 on the Inc. 5000, Language Services Associates in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, doesn't speak a lick of French, but it never stops him from effortlessly communicating with foreign business associates, and, at times, cabbies.

New York City cabbies are being driven to the edge of financial ruin and despair as ride - hail apps like Uber and Lyft continue to take their customers, with one driver's take - home pay falling from $ 50,000 a year to some $ 17,000.

For - hire vehicles including app - based services such as Uber would also have to pay a surcharge — a proposal that got mixed reviews from Queens pols whose borough is home to the city's largest share of cabbies.

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

However he was left visibly shaken today as received shouts of «clown» and «joke» from the assembled cabbies with one shouting «I voted for you once, I must have been on drugs,» while another shouted.

Matthew Stanley: Along these lines, some years ago, I was in a cab going from this airport in the middle of Indiana to a physics conference and the cabbie said, «Where are you going?»

And so the last time I spoke to you, we were in Anchorage, but we had just come from Juneau and you heard tales of J.D., the cabbie.

From waiters and baristas, to cabbies and cleaning men and women, there are lots of people who help your life run smoothly.

A few characters carry over from the first, including Karan Soni's cabbie, T.J. Miller's barfly, and Brianna Hildebrand's C - list X-Man (Negasonic Teenage Warhead), but their roles are minor, mostly there to placate fans looking for more of the same.

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.

In the months since the Taxis on Patrol program started, cabbies have helped police arrest hundreds of criminals, from carjackers to drunken drivers.

A 23rd Century New York cabbie (Willis, Beavis and Butthead Do America) has an unexpected passenger in the form of Leeloo (Jovovich, Dazed and Confused), a woman who is the «supreme being» sent to save the universe from death first needing the four elements in the form of blocks to do so.

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).

Old hands benefiting from increased gag - time include Blind Al (Leslie Uggams) and hapless cabbie Dopinder (Karan Soni), now re-tooling himself as an instrument of death.

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.

«Oh,» said the cabbie, «you mean making sure all the school operators tell the truth about their performance and don't avoid working with kids from tough neighborhoods?»

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Instead of a standard news release (which they provided), Questrade's ETF launch got major coverage from an article in Moneysense magazine, they put together a YouTube video with their social media lightning rod Cabbie and they rocked up to the TSX to ring the opening bell (and clap for a really long time) and also hold an investor seminar with investment media personalities from BNN (and coverage in the weekly roundup probably doesn't hurt either).

The cabbie shared videos of the hawk on social media that quickly went viral and provided shelter for the bird at his home until a local animal rehabilitator retrieved the hawk Saturday, just before storms from Hurricane Harvey got stronger.

Mario and Luigi listen as King Koopa announces his plans to take over New York City, which leads the cabbie to seek assistance from the police.

Then again what would you expect from a UN Arabic translator, truck driver, pumpkin picker, marketing director, English teacher, cabbie, Victoria Secret bra salesman, farmer, designer and artist?

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).

While this will obviously involve evidence taken from the scene of the cab crash, it will also include an investigation into the history of both the cabbie and the taxi company's hiring practices.

London About Blog Know about london from a London cabbie's tales, photos, history & trivia, Robert lordan author of this blog.

I sounded like a total loony when I was telling the cabbie on my way home from Australia's Wine List of the Year Awards last night why I drive to ranks to catch cabs rather than call them to my house.