Sentences with phrase «well as taxi drivers»

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It leads to a more collaborative and less hierarchical society, since a CEO in civilian life may end up taking orders from a taxi driver in the service, as well as future business partnerships.

The 24 year - old is no stranger to altercations with his boss, having been caught out smoking on three separate occasions, as well as having spat on a taxi driver who had refused to take him home when he was intoxicated.

For that reason, and because of the multitude of community projects that I have been responsible for, such as: construction of low - income housing; repair of train stations; re-pavement of streets; Implementation of charter schools; services for senior citizens, immigrants, non-medallion taxi car drivers, and many more initiatives, I believe that the residents of the 32nd Senatorial District in Bronx County have been well represented during the past 15 years,» he said.

On their parts, taxi drivers at Nungua in the Krowor constituency told The aL - hAJJ that, though they supported and voted for Akufo - Addo in last year's election hoping to better their lives as Akufo - Addo promised, they have since regretted.

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 that reason, and because of the multitude of community projects that I have been responsible for, such as: construction of low - income housing; repair of train stations; re-pavement of streets; implementation of charter schools; services for senior citizens, immigrants, non-medallion taxi car drivers, and many more initiatives, I believe that the residents of the 32nd Senatorial District in Bronx County have been well represented during the past 15 years.

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.

Peter Weir (The Truman Show, Master and Commander), who also directed Ford to success a year before in the Best Picture - nominated Witness, directs this Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Affliction) adaptation of the Paul Theroux novel, casting Ford as Allie Fox, a disgruntled American inventor who gets so pissed off at the loss of what he believes is a dying America, he decides to pack up his bags and family, taking them to the rain forests of South America to live a life away from civilization, and the threat of nuclear annihilation he believes is imminent.

Variety has reported that Paul Schrader - best known for writing the screenplays for such films as TAXI DRIVER and RAGING BULL - has...

But the films he has been most handsomely rewarded for, critically as well as commercially, have tended to be the ones that put on display the callowness of violent adolescents of all ages, such as Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), GoodFellas (1990), and Cape Fear (1991).

One of his earliest produced works, Taxi Driver was heavily influenced by Bresson's Pickpocket (1959), and perhaps it was Scorsese who did not hesitate to draw out the spiritual side of Schrader's script, as well as on the subsequent three scripts.

Raised a strict Dutch Calvinist and best known as the screenwriter of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver — another portrait of a bristling lone wolf — Schrader inevitably got around to including a priest in this unofficial series of films.

The good weather continued yesterday, as the seventeenth annual Jameson Empire Awards rolled into town, held in the glitzy and all - too glamorous settings of the Grosvenor House Hotel in the fancy part of London where everybody uses taxis and personal drivers.

Although perhaps best known as the screenwriter of Martin Scorsese's Oscar - winning 1976 film Taxi Driver, Paul Schrader has gone on to become a distinctive director in his own right since the late 1970s.

The festival also honored master composer Bernard Herrmann, who scored «Citizen Kane» and «Taxi Driver» as well as «Psycho,» «Vertigo,» «Cape Fear» and many others.

The trailer continues its roll call with the return of Karan Soni as Dopinder, the good - natured taxi driver who makes the mistake first of befriending Deadpool, and then of taking his advice.

Still best known as the screenwriter of Taxi Driver (1976), veteran director Paul Schrader indulges his two big passions — Calvinism and bloodletting — with this audacious drama.

Disguised as a Bob Ross parody, the teaser trailer for Deadpool 2 suddenly explodes with a bunch of brand new footage from the upcoming movie, with shots of new characters like Domino (Zazzie Beetz) as well as old favorites like Weasel (T.J. Miller) and Dopinder the taxi driver (Karan Sorin).

Banned Iranian director Jafar Panahi «s Taxi, in which the filmmaker stars as a taxi driver talking to passengers as he navigates the streets of Tehran, won the Berlinale Golden Bear for best film Saturday at the 65th Berlin International Film FestiTaxi, in which the filmmaker stars as a taxi driver talking to passengers as he navigates the streets of Tehran, won the Berlinale Golden Bear for best film Saturday at the 65th Berlin International Film Festitaxi driver talking to passengers as he navigates the streets of Tehran, won the Berlinale Golden Bear for best film Saturday at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.

After co-writing The Yakuza with his brother Leonard in 1974, he went on to write Taxi Driver, perhaps the best film to come out of that scene next to The Godfather, and certainly Schrader's best work as a writer.

Release date: May 18 Cast: Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer Directed by: Paul Schrader (Auto Focus) Why we're excited: Paul Schrader is perhaps best known as screenwriter of Martin Scorsese classics like Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, but he's also had an equally compelling career as a director of his own hard - edged, morally complex films like Hardcore and Affliction.

The generally able cast includes J.T. Walsh and Patti D'Arbanville as well as Ray Sharkey, who's memorable as an angelic taxi driver.

Banned Iranian director Jafar Panahi «s Taxi, in which the filmmaker stars as a taxi driver talking to passengers as he navigates the streets of Tehran, won the Berlinale Golden Bear for best film Saturday at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.Another fest favorite, Chilean director Pablo Larraín «s subversive and darkly comic new film El Club (The Club), picked up the Grand Jury prize, or the Silver BTaxi, in which the filmmaker stars as a taxi driver talking to passengers as he navigates the streets of Tehran, won the Berlinale Golden Bear for best film Saturday at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.Another fest favorite, Chilean director Pablo Larraín «s subversive and darkly comic new film El Club (The Club), picked up the Grand Jury prize, or the Silver Btaxi driver talking to passengers as he navigates the streets of Tehran, won the Berlinale Golden Bear for best film Saturday at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.Another fest favorite, Chilean director Pablo Larraín «s subversive and darkly comic new film El Club (The Club), picked up the Grand Jury prize, or the Silver Bear.

As was also evident with Good Time, the influence of 1970s New Hollywood directors was palpable in Ramsay's film, which comes across as an extended remake of the final scene of Taxi DriveAs was also evident with Good Time, the influence of 1970s New Hollywood directors was palpable in Ramsay's film, which comes across as an extended remake of the final scene of Taxi Driveas an extended remake of the final scene of Taxi Driver.

Thomas Wagner is a retired New York City public - school teacher as well as a former taxi driver, debate coach, union leader, and member of the San Antonio Golden Gloves.

Within Edinburgh public bus services, taxis and as well as Bus Tours are readily available with the latter having professional drivers / couriers to give commentary on places of interest seen throughout the city during the tour.

Upon his desk, there are books on Taxi Driver and 2001: A Space Odyssey (which KP's mascot Ludens seems to channel), as well as the soundtrack to La La Land.

This group of portraits includes well - known figures such as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, and a local kid who ran errands for Neel.

This group of portraits includes well - known figures such as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, a local kid who ran errands for Neel, and other children and their families.

Alice Neel, Uptown features both well known figures such as playwright, actress and author Alice Childress; sociologist Horace R. Clayton Jr.; and community activist Mercedes Arroyo, as well as anonymous individuals like children, families, a taxi driver, a ballet dancer, a nurse and a boy who ran errands for Neels.

Social equity concerns will also be addressed by granting relief for losses incurred by local governments due to the elimination of such fees, as well as grain cultivators, fishermen and taxi - drivers, all of whom rely heavily on fuel - based vehicles or machinery.

Other notable requirements applying to Black Cabs and not to minicabs are amongst others look and fitness standards of the vehicle, a strict regulation of fares combined with the obligatory use of a taxi meter, as well as a thorough schooling of the taxi driver which can take up to four years of preparation.

Which is good news for drivers, passengers, and pedestrians, but not so much for the bottom line of emergency rooms, highway patrol officers, chauffeurs and taxi drivers, insurance claim adjusters and the companies they work for, and most importantly — at least as far as this readership is concerned — personal injury lawyers.

If you were involved in a motor vehicle collision with a taxi, you can potentially file a personal injury claim against the driver of the taxi as well as the company that employs or retains the taxi driver to recover compensation for your injuries.

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.

The change followed news that drivers for Lyft, the second most popular ride - sharing service, had earned $ 200 million in tips in 2017, as well as a threat from the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission, which regulates one of Uber's biggest markets, to require tipping.

We're talking limousine, taxi, delivery, local and over-the-road truck drivers, as well as drivers of vehicles for state and local government agencies, such as fire, police and public utility departments.

While auto insurance requirements differ from those in the U.S., the way South African taxi drivers are dealing with the growing competition differs quite a bit as well.

In fact, the well - earned, fierce reputation of South Africa's taxi drivers dates back to the days of apartheid and continues today as they often resort to violence to protect their routes.

Like Taxi Driver, and any other classic movie, it gets better with repeated viewing, as more details tie together.

A few years later, Uber (as well as Lyft) swooped in and build their taxi services from the ground up, not just by developing software, but by also providing the cars and drivers.

It's also a good call to be suspicious of anyone approaching you while speaking English, and to regard taxi drivers as you would a recently released felon.»

Mention some general skills as well as some skills, which you have gained in your experience as a taxi driver: excellent communication and coordination skills.

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?

Taxi drivers usually work with cab services companies although they may be self employed as well.