Sentences with phrase «of a limousine on»

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They remind Trump of a time when he ran around New York City in a gaudy limousine while a man who once played a cowboy on TV was president.

They'll also get four tickets to Hamilton, a Black Friday shopping spree on Fifth Avenue for $ 7,500, a two - night stay at a luxury suite at the Mandarin Oriental ($ 4,395), a limousine for their travels, a guided tour of the city, dance lessons at Fred Astaire Dance Studio, a $ 260 carriage ride through Central Park, and a $ 20,000 Ulysse Nardin watch.

Uber began tests in China in late 2013 in the southern cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen, focusing on a service that would let people hail rides from licensed limousine companies.

On this day the patriarch's Cadillac limousine was waiting to take the Holy Fire to Bethlehem, where Arab Christians awaited it in the Church of the Nativity.

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.

Hire a limousine to take the birthday child and friends on a tour of Chicago attractions, or even just to visit some favorite local places like the ice cream shop.

Limousine, truck and delivery drivers faced an additional challenge this week when New York City rolled out new regulations to prohibit parking and loading on both sides of several busy midtown Manhattan blocks during rush hour.

We have had enough of thse private plane flying; middle class firing; step on the poor; limousine fakers....

Thursday At the City Council on Thursday, the following committees will hold preliminary budget hearings: — Transportation at 9:30 a.m., regarding the MTA — Fire and Emergency Management at noon, regarding Fire / Emergency Medical Service and the Office of Emergency Management — For - Hire Vehicles at 1:30 p.m., regarding the Taxi and Limousine Commission — Transportation and the Capital Budget at 3 p.m., regarding the DOT expense and capital budgets

The limousine driver involved in last summer's fatal crash in Cutchogue has been indicted by a special grand jury on four counts of criminally negligent homicide.

In governor Patterson's Executive Budget he created a sales tax that did not exist prior to 2009 in which he forced the Limousine, Black car & Livery industry of NY State to collect sales tax on their services, leaving Taxi, Bus, Funeral and all other forms of transportation tax exempt.

Mark Ilacqua, who runs a taxi and medical transportation service in Syracuse, spoke on behalf of the Limousine, Bus and Taxi Operators of Upstate New York.

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

According to Singh's testimony, he footed the bill for a lot of items for Nassau officials — and Thursday morning much of it touched on Singh paying limousine services for the cost of rides for John Venditto, family members and friends, and other Oyster Bay officials.

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.

One of the people who has been on the Taxi and Limousine Commission in Nassau County is Larry Blessinger, who is vice president of six taxi and limo companies in Nassau and also the president of Nassau & Suffolk Taxi Owners Association.

The panel, chaired by Diaz, heard testimony from Taxi and Limousine Commission boss, Congressman Adriano Espaillat, and a score of livery car service owners, dollar - van operators and drivers on the topic of TLC enforcement.

Meera Joshi, Mayor Bill de Blasio's chair of the Taxi and Limousine Commission, made the request of the local legislature's Committee on For - Hire Vehicles during a hearing at City Hall.

A dozen independent owners of medallions not affiliated with a taxicab fleet and an advocacy group which supports these owners slapped the city and top Taxi & Limousine Commission honchos on Wednesday with a Manhattan federal court lawsuit seeking to overturn the longstanding policy.

On the Ring Road, another Stalinist creation, an eight - lane motorway that surrounded the city center in an asphalt moat, the dozen limousines and chase cars turned north, breezing past block after block of leviathan government buildings that heralded the new Moscow.

Especially when this layering of luxury is depicted via Louis Vuitton on six young, up - and - coming models as they act out the narrative of a woman leaving her hotel room and steps — along with her pet pooch — into her chauffeur - driven limousine.

«The Ball, the Jewish mother of all singles parties, produced by letmypeoplego.com runs simultaneously at three cavernous, hot Chelsea clubs... with free limousine shuttle service between them...» — New York Daily News, «Matzoh Balls on Christmas»

On his way to the airport's coffee shop, the Tricycle Man parks and walks by a red - jacketed chauffeur named Norman (David Arkin) who stands attentively by his black limousine - he is there to pick up members of a popular performing rock / folk group «Tom, Bill, and Mary».

It's not just Prince's nihilism that Monáe embodies on Dirty Computer - she's also made a record that's overtly and proudly sexual, as evident from the opening verse of «Crazy, Classic, Life» - «Young, black, wild and free / Naked in a limousine / And I just wan na party hard / Sex in a swimming pool.»

With 2012's Cosmopolis David Cronenberg disappeared up his backside somewhat, using the slight story of Robert Pattinson's jaded financier travelling around Manhattan in a limousine to make a comment on (I think) the morality, or lack thereof, of corporate culture but he's back on much more familiar territory here.

BALL STREET STUDIO: Sony Pictures TV Studios / Showtime TEAM: David Caspe (w, ep, sr), Jordan Cahan (w, ep, sr), Seth Rogen (d, ep), Evan Goldberg (d, ep) LOGLINE: Set against the events of October 19, 1987 — aka Black Monday, the worst stock market crash in U.S. history — it's the story of how a group of outsiders took on the blue - blood, old - boys club of Wall Street and ended up crashing the world's largest financial system, a Lamborghini limousine, Don Henley's birthday party and the glass ceiling.

This is a movie that namechecks Independence Day in a winking gesture, and thinks nothing of tasking its fictional commander - in - chief with firing a rocket launcher from a limousine driving in circles on the front lawn of the titular landmark.

Like the «limousine liberals» who gathered there on Park Avenue to sip wine, write cheques and discuss — in the measured tones of the New York Review of Books — the «race problem», Elgar is unprepared for the messy radicalism that greets and, even more significantly, that excludes him.

This departure from the regular superhero comic book (okay, graphic novel, if you will) adaptation takes a dark and gritty turn (think «Deadpool» without the laughs or language) almost immediately with Jackman («Eddie the Eagle») playing a bitter, down - on - his - luck limousine driver in the year 2029 who spends his time drinking, brooding, beating up Mexican car thieves and caring for the aging and seemingly addled Dr. Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart, «X-Men: Days of Future Past») in a vacated south of the border industrial plant.

Along the way, a freak motor vehicle accident causes the presidential limousine to spin out an teeter on the edge of a bridge.

One day, Robert Styles (Richard Fitzpatrick)-- a rich city slicker in a limousine — attempts to visit the lodge, but instead of dropping by, he drops into a huge sinkhole on the property.

Actually, «rage» is a fairly inaccurate way of describing the way Oscar himself pursues his passion even without any cameras to film his performances; his demeanor as he sits in the back of a limousine traveling to and from his various acting «appointments» more often reminds one of Samuel Beckett's famous expression of weary existentialism: «I can't go on.

There's also a ride - along on the South Lawn in the President's armored, missile - resistant limousine, which, of course, must be tested for its resilience (The podium in the Press Briefing Room is apparently made of the same material).

Last spring, our gym was full of students, parents, community members and our district's superintendent as our students received T - shirts, limousine lunch - rides, and other prizes based on their academic performance.

So did I. I also got the job of driving a Limousine to a Daimler Lanchester Owner's Club meet at the Coventry Transport Museum on a Sunday morning.

Cars in My Life — Nick Baldwin reflects on some of his all time family favourites / The Greatest Race III — Marc Douezy's story of the 1914 Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France moves on to the pre-race scrutineering and practice / Working on a Chain Gang — The Editor drives arguably the rarest pre-war Frazer - Nash sports car / Travelling First Class — Zoe Harrison assesses Austin's flagship limousine of the 30's — the Mayfair / The French Brooklands IV — Bill Boddy's epic story of the Montlhery track reaches its final lap / Missing Link — Frank Lugg tells us why he thinks Guiseppe Coda was an unsung hero of early Italian car design / Vital Spark — Roy Berry journeys westward to visit a magneto specialist / Dew Drop — Michael Worthington - Williams on the cars of Harold E Dew.

-- Munro Donald on the Kent coachbuilder Maltby's pioneering work on automatic car hoods / A Right Royal Renault — The Editor gets a priviledged drive in a limousine once owned by King Edward VII / Way Down In Dixie — Michael Wortington - Williams goes stateside in search of the Dixie Flyer.

But as Manuel Lage has discovered the first car to bear the name was an Alfonso Hispano - Suiza / Americans to the Rear — Rear engined designs — Part Three / Americans to the Rear — Concluding his series on American rear engined cars Karl Ludvigsen examines the role played by General Motors / Epicyclic Gearing — Workshop — Part Two / Settlers Special — A cut - down 1933 Riley Monaco shipped to Vancouver by an ex-pat in the»50s formed the basis for Miles Fenton's ideal supercharged special / Racing in the Rain — Alan Smith has been using his camera to good effect at motor sporting events for over 50 years / Ards TT 75th Anniversary — John Payne reports on the 75th Anniversary of the Ards TT / The Little Engine that could — Gavin Farmer celebrates the Jowett Bradford / It's quicker by Rail — Brian Heath's subject this month is a 1939 Railton long chassis special limousine.

Replica / In Memory of Montlhery / The Quiet Achiever — Gerald Palmer (1911 - 1999) Engineer — Jowett Javelin — MG ZA Magnette — Riley Pathfinder — Part One / The Oldest Working Car — The Hammel / 20.9 hp Crossley 1927 — Back on the Road / Lamda Limousine 1929 — Back on the Road / HRG 1 1/2 litre 1936

Ludvigsen's London library — Tom Threlfall discovers Carl Ludvigsen's motoring reference library in deepest Pentonville / The Henry Royce Foundation — Jonathan Wood visited the Foundation's archives and museum at the Hunt House at Paulerspury / 1935 Armstrong Siddeley Special — Malcolm Robertson gives us his impressions of a pristine example of this sporting limousine / 1924 Standard — Ray Cattle writes with affection about his well - preserved V3 Kenilworth model / 1929 Rolls - Royce 20 — This month the Editor describes his encounter with a «small» Rolls - Royce / Sir Herbert Austin's letter — Some fascinating correspondence between Sir Herbert Austin and Henry Ford has been discovered by David G. Jones / Restoration techniques — Zoe Harrison reports on the course on vehicle restoration techniques run by the North Warwickshire College.

The 300 SEL 6.3 stole its 250 - hp, V - 8 engine from the large 600 limousine to become what was then the fastest sedan in the world, capable of traveling at triple digit speeds with five adults inside for hours on end (or at least until the fuel ran out).

Bentley isn't giving specifics on the Mulsanne Grand Limousine's powertrain, but either the standard Mulsanne's 505 hp, twin - turbo V - 8 or the Mulsanne Speed «s 530 hp version of the same engine should be up to the task.

Further afield, given Audi's Sport's stated intent to focus on SUVs, we wouldn't rule out RS versions of Audi's new Q2 baby SUV, its upcoming Q8 flagship, the yet - to - confirmed Q4 and Q6 crossovers, and maybe even this year's new A8 limousine.

It is being pitched as a «flagship crossover» and based on its dimensons you can think of it as an SUV equivalent of the Lexus LS limousine.

The Ultra was essentially an upgrade to the Electra Park Avenue line, and featured a standard leather trimmed interior with dual 20 - way power front seats (shared with Cadillac's restyled 1989 Fleetwood Sixty Special), lower - body accent exterior paint treatment, distinctive thick - padded vinyl top with limousine - style rear - window surround (available only on Ultra), simulated burled elm trim on the doors and instrument panel, unique aluminum wheels, anti-lock brakes, chromed B - pillar moldings, specific grille and tail lamps, leather - wrapped steering wheel, electronic instrumentation, padded glove - compartment door, unique interior door panel trim, and a variety of otherwise minor changes.

On the C - Klasse platform, Mercedes mounted the engines from E limousine including the 500 top of range.

Riding on a wheelbase of 167.5 inches, the Presidential Limousine sports a specially - made V - 8 and a four - speed automatic transmission.

While Mercedes enjoys good sales of its S - Class top of the range limousine, and BMW prepares to unveil the new generation 7 Series this summer, Audi announces that the 2016 A8 is now on sale in the UK, with a new trim level.

The Stuttgart - made limousine recently got the touch of Forgiato, the aftermarket company that twinkles bright — literally — on the radar of the houses that make cars look more intimidating.

In the 1990s, for example, BMW Individual was the division responsible for completing the interiors and exteriors of clients» L7 limousines, customizing such things as the options on the rear center console, fitting blue strobe packages and communications equipment, and creating interiors per customer specifications.