Sentences with phrase «driving as a taxi driver»

He held that the claimant had made a change to driving as a taxi driver and would continue.

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Driving Dynasty: Tan's great - grandfather worked as a taxi driver, and his grandfather built a Malaysian automotive empire by importing Japanese cars.

In a study of his earlier pictures, Kolker notes that «Scorsese is interested in the psychological manifestations of individuals who are representative either of a class or of a certain ideological grouping; he is concerned with their relationship to each other or to an antagonistic environment... [and finally] there is no triumph for his characters» (A Cinema of Loneliness [Oxford University Press, 19881, p. 162) The Jesus of the Last Temptation fits this pattern (as do Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver, Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull and Paul Hackett in After Hours) By eschewing any reference to a resurrection — and, in an interesting theological note, allowing Paul to suggest that his preaching of the risen Christ is more important than the Jesus of history — Scorsese presents the crucifixion as the final willful act of a man driven by a God who makes strange demands on his followers.

«People go out of their way in this country to be upset,» David Straine, a 35 - year - old taxi driver, said as he drove to the Giants» practice rink on Jan. 18.

The National Democratic Congress Flagbearer hopeful disclosed to sensational Reggae Presenter Blakk Rasta in an interview monitored by Ghanapoliticsonline.com on the weekday drive time Taxi Driver Show on Zylofon FM that marijuana otherwise known as «wee» or «ganja» has a lot of benefits for human use and legalizing it is in order.

The juror, Kenneth Graham, a taxi driver, told the judge he had learned during the Thanksgiving recess that the owner of the medallion cab he drove was a good friend of Mr. Silver's, and belonged to the same synagogue as the assemblyman.

For 36 months, scientists tracked 4175 yellow taxis and 12,525 blue taxis from the same Singapore - based fleet; they also used 3 months of data from more than 3000 drivers» GPS logs to rule out differences in driving speed, number of stops, and distance covered as confounding factors.

Previous versions of X-Cab, which involves driving a virtual taxi through a cybercity, have confirmed that humans have place cells, too, as well as view cells that respond to specific landmarks and goal cells that respond to the driver's ultimate destination.

Nightcrawler certainly borrows much of its themes and tone from previous movies such as Network, Taxi Driver, Peeping Tom, Drive, but Gilroy recycles those ideas and places them in a contemporary setting and allows us to examine one of society's more questionable career paths, while also taking a glimpse at our human nature in relation to crime and violence.

Drive plays like a mix of Steve McQueen flick, as if it were directed by a young Michael Mann with a dash of Taxi Driver, with its terse dialogue and sleek, stylized, music - tinged sequences, though with sudden bursts of rather bloody, quite disturbingly graphic violence.

An art - house crime thriller to be directed by Daniel Grove, it features Safai as Iran - Iraq War veteran caught between the Iranian and Russian mafia in Los Angeles, and is described as «Drive meets Taxi Driver set in the opium underworld of Tehrangeles.»

Why keep driving mid-size sedans around town as if we were nothing more than taxi drivers?

Driving the 2008 Mercury Sable around San Francisco, we considered painting it yellow, putting a light on top, and starting a career as a taxi driver.

Every validly licensed driver — including every individual driving a car, motorcycle or other motor vehicle, as well as truck drivers, taxi drivers and other professional drivers — should know that the road is a dangerous environment that requires total attention.

In addition all NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission (TLC) Licensed Drivers are required to take these New York defensive driving courses as part of their continuing education program.

A call taxi driver driving around constantly would definitely be considered as a greater risk than a personal bank who would be sitting around in the desk the whole day.

Similarly, persons driving all day long like call taxi drivers would be considered as more risky persons than those working in offices and driving only between the home and the office.

And who knows this better than a driver who initially began his career as a taxi driver, and quickly worked his way up to providing driving services to a high - end Limousine services company?

Mindfulness Based Cognitive Group Therapy vs Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy as a Treatment for Driving Anger and Aggression in Iranian Taxi Drivers