Sentences with phrase «cabbie in»

Unlike other cities, one is not necessarily required to get a commercial driver's license to become a cabbie in Vegas; the professional driver's license is already a good point to venture.

The health of the taxi driver is an essential requirement — individuals with communicable diseases, mental problems, and other related illnesses are discouraged to apply to become a cabbie in Las Vegas.

Noe gives us an unnamed French butcher in his early 50s (craggy Philippe Nahon) rather than an American cabbie in his mid-20s (lanky Robert De Niro), a series of offscreen gunshots and plucked notes to replace a swanky Bernard Herrmann score, and an exceptionally grisly urban plot about unemployment, abject violence, and incestuous delirium to replace Paul Schrader's rhapsody about existential and excremental urban anguish.

Martin Scorsese's classic neo-noir thriller tells the story of Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), a disturbed loner of a veteran working as a nighttime cabbie in New York City.

Veteran actor David Jensen elevates this indie film, playing Larry Shirt, an aging cabbie in New Orleans.

This led to a Warner Bros. contract for D'Andrea; he went on to play supporting roles in a number of the studio's films, the best of which was the sympathetic cabbie in Dark Passage (1948).

Uber cars were involved in more deadly crashes than yellow cabbies in the second half of 2015, according to data the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission released.

«Unlike cabbies in other cities, London cabbies are forced to learn thousands of street names and routes in order to pass a notoriously difficult...

But licensed cabbies in New York and London are getting some apps of their own to compete against Uber and Lyft.

Not exact matches

But now, cabbies may have finally figured out a way to fight Uber, Lyft, and a whole slew of on - demand transit apps that have cropped up in recent years.

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.

The cabbie puts it on a clipboard and hands it back to you and before you know it, you've been sitting in the car for five minutes thinking that next time... err, there will never be a «next time.»

Remember your last cab ride - at the end of a cab ride, the cabbie tells you the fare, and you hand him a credit card — and then, of course, he asks you to pay in cash.

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.

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.

IF HE WERE IN THE BACK OF MY CAB, I»D KEEP ONE EYE ON HIM — CABBIES LEARN TO DISTINGUISH A PERSON OF INTEGRITY OR A CON ARTIST VERY QUICKLY — THEIR LIVES DEPEND ON IT.

The cabbie who was the last person to hear Lowell speak could not have known that the passenger hulking in his rear seat was really Druid royalty, and that future generations would warm their hands at bonfires he had built.

It seems like every game Cabby proves his case as the best hitter in our genration (over Albert Pujols).

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 Las Vegas technology company, Frias Transportation Infrastructure, gave $ 25,000 while pitching software to city taxi regulators designed to monitor cabbies» whereabouts in real time.

Republican U.S. Senator Scott Brown wrote a letter to the Board of Selectmen of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, Thursday urging them not to revoke the taxi license of Morgan Reitzas, the Martha's Vineyard cabbie who was involved in an altercation with a Republican campaign tracker last weekend.

The latest suicide was that of cabby Nicanor Ochisor, who hanged himself in his Queens home March 16.

In 2000, Maguire's scans of the brains of London cabbies showed they had abnormally large hippocampi, the area of the brain vital for navigation.

In New York City, land of the ubiquitous yellow taxi, cabbies and other motorists find themselves with a bit less room to operate these days.

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?

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.

I love that rural weekend in the manor, you look great with the cabby hat and oversized shirt.

I put in an extra Tweet under my husband's Twitter account, The Crabby Cabbie, as well.

Honestly, we can't decide if we love the ruffled blouse, cabby hat (comes in 4 colors), or white ankle boots more.

I mean in honor of yellow, there are yellow cabbies everywhere, and it makes such a fashion statement... and where better to make a statement!

Weaving in and out of the working girls» path is cabbie Razmik (Karren Karagulian), an Armenian - immigrant husband and father who adores the more feminine - featured Sin - Dee, but doesn't mind rolling through the car wash (if you know what I mean) with Alexandra as a backup when the two women briefly separate.

Summary: Dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies, open doors, and eight million cranky pedestrians is all in a day's work for Wilee (Joseph Gordon - Levitt), the best of New York's agile and aggressive bicycle messengers.

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.

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

Never in a million years would I have guessed that the same filmmaker might turn around and make something like Tangerine, his punk - as - fuck portrait of a much seedier L.A.. It's not just a total creative 180, but kind of the opposite of a sell - out move: Trading a formulaic story for an unpredictable one and a slick Indiewood aesthetic for a gorgeous, radical lo - fi approach, Baker trains his iPhone camera on the kind of characters — black and transgender prostitutes, immigrant cabbies — that the movies rarely acknowledge, let alone put into starring roles.

Goodbye Solo relies on forced character dynamics and two clunkily directed, monotonous turns, in a milieu — a cabbie's spread - out North Carolina territory — that fails to take satisfactory shape.

What with goofball vixen Karen Black in a blonde wig, Bruce Dern doing full - on whimsical as an inquisitive cabbie, and William Devane suave yet scary as the volatile villain, it's a Hitchcock movie with a flavour like no other.

Deadpool's favorite blind landlord Blind Al, Josh Brolin's Cable and even Deadpool's cabbie friend Dopinder are all present in this short teaser of the film.

Factoring into the equation is a subplot involving Alexandra trying to get people to attend a show she's putting on at a night club later in the evening — it's Christmas Eve — and an Armenian cabbie (Karren Karagulian) who frequents transgender prostitutes when on the clock, with a wife and child waiting for him back at home.

Did a cabbie drive him around in circles and then overcharged him (as one did with me and my wife when we visited Istanbul)?

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 third stooge is added to the mix after they land in Europe, when George (Yvan Attal), an insolent cabbie with an attitude, becomes their regular driver.

Before Unknown finishes, he tracks down the mysterious cabbie, Gina, a Bosnian immigrant with a very good reason to have not hung around after saving his life, and Ernst Jurgen [Bruno Ganz], a former Stasi [East German Secret Police] officer who is proud of his time in service.

The cabbie can't, but Jack at least gets a souvenir in the nimble delivery boy's lost beret.

Timothy Spall, who has played a cabbie, a cook, and a photographer in previous Leigh endeavors, is all grunts and twitchy frowns as this ambitious, restless, complicated fellow.

For in a film that is for the most part highly elliptical, occasional scenes that lack such economy (like David's comic exchange with an unlicensed cabbie, or the overlong — if nicely performed — expositional scenes with a series of coroners and counsellors) are an unwelcome disruption of the story's spare rhythm.

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»).

Chan is James Tong (a name used in exactly the same way as «Chon Wang» was in Shanghai Noon), a cabbie - turned - chauffer for suave super-agent Clark Devlin (Jason Isaacs) who, after Mr. Devlin's incapacitation, dons the Bond - surrogate's titular super-tux and suddenly becomes a slow, mugging, not - fighting Jackie Chan.