She was more than a backseat driver it was like hiring a mother.

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The conference, convened by Britain and France with the United States as backseat driver, has been strongly criticised in the western media, both by hawks and doves.

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Over the blasting music, limo driver Orville Brown heard someone in the backseat knock on the partition behind him, saying something about smoke.

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And, perhaps most importantly, if you went for a traditional low-riding supercar--such as the Aston Martin Vanquish--instead of the Arnage T, you couldn't put a six-foot-two-inch driver up front and another passenger of equal height in the backseat, because there wouldn't even be a backseat, let alone a huge trunk.

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And what for so many years had seemed to point to the arbitrariness of life was soon evidence of the opposite -- my broken neck the almost inevitable consequence not of a divine plan, but of a reckless driver, a truck loaded with four tons of tiles, a backseat with no headrest, and a dangerous road.

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