• After all, cycling, like anything else in Paris, is as much a style-statement as a means of transport.

    BBC: Caroline Wyatt cycling through Paris

  • The coach proved itself not just a romantic means of transport, but one reliable and nimble.

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  • This has caused unhappiness among some coal companies which have no alternative means of transport.

    ECONOMIST: American railways

  • There were 3, 000 police using every means of transport you can imagine from motorcycles, to rollerblades, to horses.

    NPR: In Paris, Olympic Torch Inflames Protesters

  • We set out to piece together the most ambitious journeys on both means of transport, using internet booking sites.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Magazine | A ?200 ticket to ride

  • Different means of transport and different vehicles will eventually take their place.

    NPR: Detroit Automakers Face Extinction

  • Some of us used more technology than others in the group and some of us get to school by different means of transport.

    BBC: News - School Report 2011: Pupils from two schools discuss School Report Survey

  • With no mass transit options and no bicycle, and cabs already filled to capacity with passengers, my only means of transport were my feet.

    FORBES: New York City After Hurricane Sandy

  • While city centres were closed to private cars, the authorities tried to encourage five million city residents and workers to use alternative means of transport.

    BBC: News | Europe | Off the roads

  • This system of impromptu bike renting is helping urban areas reduce automotive traffic and pollution while providing locals and tourists with a convenient, cheap and healthy means of transport.

    BBC: Bike sharing around the world

  • And now I'm going to cycle back to my office, and I can do it quick and like that than any other means of transport in London.

    NPR: Taking a Practical Approach to 'Green' Living

  • This time, the means of transport is an ambulance rather than a taxi, and the hero is a weary paramedic by the name of Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage).

    NEWYORKER: Bringing Out the Dead

  • Bicycles were a very common means of transport in rural areas and he was worried that informers, if they saw the rebels, would rapidly pedal away and alert the nearest army post.

    CNN: Joseph Kony: Brutal warlord who shocked world

  • And the business of the airfield's new owner, CargoLifter, is the development of giant airships, a means of transport few have taken seriously since the Hindenburg went up in flames in 1937.

    ECONOMIST: Developing giant airships: Big birds | The

  • Blanco plans to turn the case study into a Web-based tool to help other companies calculate and potentially reduce the energy consumption of products moved over long distances by multiple means of transport.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • We were docked on an isolated island in the Bahamas and had no means of transport to get the captain and his distraught wife (who was also the chef on board) to the closest hospital.

    CNN: Confessions of a superyacht worker

  • Even if American freight carriers were to copy El Al, Israel's airline, and hold goods for a day for security checks, it would not greatly erode the advantages of air freight over other means of transport.

    ECONOMIST: Can it ever again be business as usual?

  • The outcome of this forum should be followed closely by every company that is not manufacturing its products with its own renewable power supply and distributing them by means of transport other than the internal combustion engine.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • In all the stir over this issue, it's important to remember that not only have modern means of transport and communication made it easier for movement to occur, but also technology has made it harder to chart the effects once it does.

    FORBES: People!

  • "Receiving the drug itself is a major investment of a patient's time, so if you live 8 km from the nearest clinic and have to go there once a month and you don't have a ready means of transport it's a huge investment of your own time, " he told the BBC.

    BBC: NEWS | Africa | HIV treatment 'failing' in Africa

  • And its proximity to China means that the cost of transport should not be prohibitive.

    ECONOMIST: Booming Mongolia

  • More generally, the reopening of transport links means the restoration of age-old trading routes in the subcontinent.

    ECONOMIST: India and Pakistan

  • The closure of public transport along the US East Coast means millions of people are unable to get to work.

    BBC: Sandy: Damage estimated at up to $20bn

  • Banking developed in Florence because of the ingenious development of bills of exchange, first as a way of paying debts without having to transport cash, then as a means of evading the church's usury laws, and finally as a means of extending credit.

    ECONOMIST: Renaissance Florence

  • At the Pentagon, spokesman Ken Bacon said there are signs Serb troops are making preparations to withdraw, including the mobilizing of vehicles and other means to transport troops from the region.

    CNN: Kosovo peace resolution goes to U.N. Security Council

  • "Certainly, in Britain's case, that remains reform of labour markets and welfare, investing in housing and transport and, above all, it means junking the rhetoric of austerity for an age of enterprise, " he added.

    BBC: Boris Johnson defends City bankers on French radio

  • Liberal Democrat AM Eluned Parrott stressed the importance of public transport to disabled people as for some, it is their only means of getting to work and seeing friends and families.

    BBC: Welsh Conservatives debate

  • If a sign fails to comply with the document's specification then it needs separate approval from the Department for Transport before it can be used as a means of enforcement.

    BBC: Sign error on M42 motorway may mean speeding let-off

  • "All are dependent on collaboration between Sudan and South Sudan and assistance from the international community for proper transportation facilities, food, water, healthcare and other essential services and most do not have the means to transport themselves to South Sudan and are running out of means to support themselves, " it said.

    CNN: U.N.: Thousands stranded at Sudan way station

  • The fragmented journey also means that he has to spend a third of his salary on public transport, with the remainder spent on food, bills and rent.

    CNN: The daily grind of commuting in Africa's economic hubs

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