File: Taxi_and_Monuments_on_Whitehall. jpg | A taxi passing between two of Whitehall's famous memorials

He hailed a passing taxi and was driven off to exile.

The killers were chased unsuccessfully up Eighth Avenue by a foot patrolman who had heard the gunshots and commandeered a passing taxi.

According to Time, the militants opened fire at passing traffic and hijacked a taxi, killing its occupants.

Sam gets in a passing taxi and as Ian tries to get in beside her he notices that the driver is the same man who he traveled with earlier that day.

* On roads, between vehicle drivers, by other road users such as bicycle and horse riders to signals stops and turns, and by pedestrians to flag a passing taxi or bus

They then walked less than a mile up to the four-lane highway, opened fire at passing cars and hijacked a white Mercedes taxi, killing its occupants.

The seventh of nine children, Boulaye was born after her mother went into labour in a taxi which was passing through two villages in Mid-Western Nigeria, and was raised in a strict Catholic household.

Ultimately, he had to flag down a passing car and ask the driver ( who was driving a borrowed car without a license ) to take him to the ceremony.

One potential reason for this is that locals are permitted to start driving at the age of sixteen, when they are limited to 50mph for two years ( indeed all drivers are limited to 50mph in the first two years after passing their driving test ) and some are not used to having to make progress in the same way that drivers using a larger road network like in the UK are ( even an awful driver can get from anywhere in the island to anywhere else in ninety minutes ).

She also initially balked at pulling up her skirt to entice a passing driver to provide a ride, complaining that it was unladylike.

They help the driver navigate ; they assign the right-of-way at intersections ; they indicate laws such as speed limits and parking regulations ; they advise of potential hazards ; they indicate passing and no passing zones ; and otherwise deliver information and to assure traffic is orderly and safe.

For example, a driver may be trapped in a burning tanker full of gasoline and beg a passing armed police officer to shoot him rather than let him burn to death.

LED drivers based on the PAM technique offer improved energy efficiency over systems based upon other common driver modulation techniques such as pulse-width modulation ( PWM ) as the forward current passing through an LED is relative to the intensity of the light output and the LED efficiency increases as the forward current is reduced.

Chard rode ahead of his detachment to Isandlwana on the morning of 22 January to clarify his orders, but was sent back to Rorke's Drift with only his wagon and its driver to construct defensive positions for the expected reinforcement company, passing Durnford's column en route in the opposite direction.

The tradition of pancake breakfasts dates back to the 1923 Stampede when a chuckwagon driver by the name of Jack Morton invited passing citizens to join him for his morning meals.

The switch points of tram lines are often operated remotely by the driver, who intentionally draws power or not when passing under a special short segment of the overhead wire.

On the way to the reception, she had told her driver that as a child she was on a ship with her father, who became ill when it was passing Hobart.

A pedestrian steadily walking along a 100-foot ( 30-meter ) length of department store can perceive about 68 features ; a driver passing the same frontage at 30 mph ( 13 m / s or 44 ft / s ) can perceive about six or seven features.

Subsequently the organisation developed a coded warning system, which was used until the 1960s, whereby a patrolman would always salute the driver of a passing car which showed a visible AA Badge unless there was a speed trap nearby, on the understanding that their officers could not be prosecuted for failing to salute.

The driver of General Rose's jeep attempted to do the same but one of the German Tigers turned to cut them off and as Rose's jeep was passing the Tiger tank wedged the jeep against a tree.

The conductor was able to jump clear and the driver was pulled from the water by a passing policeman.

It killed a driver passing by in his car.

While passing through the Eroilor area on its return from the Cotroceni Palace, Călinescu's luxury automobile, a Cadillac, was ambushed by that of the assassins, who shot Călinescu, his bodyguard Radu Andone, and his driver ( Miti Dumitrescu drove his car into the Premier's, which came to sudden stop as it ran into a cart — Andone was gunned down as he stepped out of the car, and Călinescu as he stood waiting on the back seat ; over twenty bullets were recovered from his body ).

Either overtaking is prohibited for all vehicles or certain kinds of vehicles only ( e. g. lorries, motorcycles, etc ...) In the USA, this is usually phrased as " no passing zone " and indicated by, a rectangular, black-on-white sign on the right side of the road that says " DO NOT PASS " and / or by a solid yellow line painted on the roadway marking the left limit of traffic ( centerline ), and sometimes supplemented by a yellow triangular ( no passing zone ) sign on the opposite side of the road ( where it can be seen by a driver who is attempting to pass ).

After passing the driver must display ' P ' plates.

In Northern Ireland for one year after the passing of a driving test, the driver is defined as a " restricted driver " who must not exceed 45 mph and must display an " R-plate " consisting of an red sans-serif R on a white background.

For two years after successfully passing the exam, the driver is required to affix a P-plate bearing the words " New driver " in Hebrew ( נהג חדש ; optionally, נהגת חדשה for female driver, or נהג

They squatted on their heels in the deep mud and Dill found a cigar in his breast pocket, passing it over silently.

He found Christian prisoners from Germany in the heart of " Tartary " ( at Talas ), and was compelled to observe the ceremony of passing between two fires, as a bringer of gifts to a dead Khan, gifts which were of course treated by the Mongols as evidence of submission.

The more humid regions have a richer vegetation ; dense forest where the rainfall is greatest and variations of temperature least, conditions found chiefly on the tropical coasts, and in the west African equatorial basin with its extension towards the upper Nile ; and savanna interspersed with trees on the greater part of the plateaus, passing as the desert regions are approached into a scrub vegetation consisting of thorny acacias, etc.

The second movement, a scherzo and trio, is also in D minor, with the introduction bearing a passing resemblance to the opening theme of the first movement, a pattern also found in the Hammerklavier piano sonata, written a few years earlier.

The procession moved slowly, and found it necessary to encamp three times before passing the Egyptian frontier — some believe at the Great Bitter Lake, while others propose sites as far south as the northern tip of the Red Sea.

57 > After quitting his legal studies for a year and lapsing into a depression, he found another practicing attorney to mentor him, completing his studies and passing the bar examination in 1781.

The intersection of the northernmost or southernmost points of the ecliptic defined the axial circles passing through those points as the two tropics ( tropikoi kukloi, " circles at the turning points ") later named for the zodiacal constellations found there, Cancer and Capricorn.

Although he had found no El Dorado to equal those of Hernán Cortés in Mexico and Francisco Pizarro in Peru, he was loved by his people, who lamented his passing.

He made a secret arrangement with an associate's son to bring his friends to the opening of the show, so that when the finely dressed patrons arrived they found a dozen children in athletic clothes kicking and passing balls, and skipping rope.

In passing the 2002 Sarbanes – Oxley Act, the Senate Judiciary Committee found that whistleblower protections were dependent on the " patchwork and vagaries " of varying state statutes.

Later, he is found drifting by a passing cargo ship.

Although he had suspected that two comets that had appeared in succession in 1680 and 1681 were the same comet before and after passing behind the Sun ( he was later found to be correct ; see Newton's Comet ), he was unable to completely reconcile comets into his model.

The Knights Templar confer three orders, and one passing order as opposed to the standard degree system found elsewhere in Freemasonry:

Finally, the Robins which can be found in Fuerteventura are the European ones, which is not surprising as the species does not breed either in this island or in the nearby Lanzarote, they are wintering exemplaries or just passing through during their long migrations between Africa and Europe.

Germination rates for seeds of the rare Australian rainforest tree Ryparosa were found to be much higher after passing through a cassowary's gut ( 92 % versus 4 %).

Whipworm eggs found in cats in North America must be differentiated from lungworms, and from mouse whipworm eggs just passing through.

With each passing decade, engineers have found ways to increase the flexibility of mass production systems, driving down the lead times on new product development and allowing greater customization and variety of products.

At times these creatures could reach heights of forty feet high, they were only witnessed by Bilbo and the thirteen dwarves who were passing that way, and this information can only be found in the Red Book of Westmarch.

Alope left the infant in the open to die of exposure, but a passing mare suckled the child until it was found by shepherds, who fell into a dispute as to who was to have the beautiful royal attire of the boy.

" Hardly any traces of that function are found in the subsequent tradition ," Karl Galinsky remarked in passing.

The Civil War found Johnson County Fiscal Court passing an ordinance barring both Union and Confederate flags from being flown.

Astronomers analysing old data found that Ulysses ' instruments had detected a large drop in the number of protons passing, as well as a change in the direction and strength of the local magnetic field.

However, the idiom is found in passing in a quote in a 1965 publication, apparently referring to the wife of Bernie Madoff.

To counter disbelief in the idea that passing away invalidates a candidate to be Moshiach, the Rebbe brought out the concept taught in the Holy Zohar that " a tzaddik, when he passes away, is to be found more in this lowest world than during his lifetime on earth.