• Michael claims that while in Damascus he saw three separate convoys of luxury Iraqi licensed vehicles, driving under armed escort.

• Happily, this is not a problem with the estate, because salesmen don't drive estate cars.
• Traffic chaos has frustrated drivers, both those driving private cars as well as public transportation drivers.
• The child was in collision with a black Chrysler Voyager estate car driven by a 27-year-old Basildon woman, who was unhurt.

• Nakita could drive, had her license and everything, but she liked walking and it wasn't very far.
• I cannot drive, but my daughter takes me everywhere so I have given the car to her.
• We've never bothered with a car. I don't drive, and we can get a bus into town if we really need to.

• The reasons why parents drive their children to school are varied.
• But when he decided to make a brash stab at the sports-car market, economics drove him to Canada.
• Earlier in the evening I had napped in the back seat as Odysea drove us across New York State.

Synonyms

• For two more days the winds beat against the house, and the snow and ice drove against the windows.
• We saw her as we pulled out of our drive. She had her head down as the snow was driving in the wind.
• Ferocious winds howled and heavy rain drove through the Jade Stadium as the Lions were humiliated - beaten in all areas.

• All of the machinery was driven by a steam engine in the basement of the machine shop.
• He produced a steam pressure gauge to record pressure in a cylinder and a rotary engine which could drive various forms of machinery.
• Water power will again turn the mill wheel and drive the turbine to provide electricity to light the building.

• The output is regulated by a single pulse width modulating controller which drives the boost switch and buck switch simultaneously.
• On the other hand, the new transistor simultaneously controls the electric power that drives a lamp and serves as the lamp itself.
• The device is driven by Sony's own 123MHz ARM-compatible CPU, the Handheld Engine.

• They drove pegs into his land to stake out claims, and prevented him from entering his fields.
• If you had driven a stake through Baker's heart at that moment, you couldn't have caused a greater wound.
• What you want to do is to be able to drive stakes into the ground here.

Synonyms

• The focus of mining then shifted back to the upper level, and during the 1980s a tunnel was driven northward into the quarry wall.
• A tunnel was driven into the hill to intersect the copper load which had been located and opened at the top of the hill.
• Second, if the countermine was driven below the mine, the counterminers could spring the end of their gallery, thereby collapsing the mine above.

• Nick Klassen took the free kick, driving the ball into the top corner and tying the game 2-2.
• About once a game, he drives the ball hard but right into a defender's glove.
• My way of fighting back was to try to drive the ball as hard as I could through the pitcher's box for a base hit.

• If she could learn to drive her golf ball, she could still be a great player.
• Two down at the time, Coltart drove his ball into the rough.
• Wie, who can drive a golf ball 300 + yards, would play from the men's tees at these events.

• The Byzantine coin is believed to come from the era of the bloody Battle of Benfleet, fought in 894 AD when an encampment of Danes was driven out by the troops of King Alfred the Great.
• Six months later, U.S. troops drove Filipino militias from Manila and pursued them into the countryside.
• The move comes as many shopkeepers in the area are complaining that traffic jams and the lack of parking spaces are driving customers away.

• ‘My whole life, he used to put his hand on the top of my head and just hold it there, and it drove me crazy,’ she says.
• I drove my parents crazy reciting states and their capitals.
• Reb and I went to the Tracey Emin exhibition at the City Gallery and it drove me crazy because Emin can't spell.

• Malcolm Fraser as prime minister and Bob Hawke as ACTU president had a habit of driving themselves to the point of collapse.
• After years of driving herself to do more and more, saying yes to everything and never missing an opportunity, she simply burnt out.
• I've always believed that success lies in driving yourself hard and not letting up until you've reached a goal.

Synonyms

• It is clearly the bosses, the bankers, the stockbrokers and the generals who are driving the budgetary process.
• It lacks narrative forms, is not reducible to conventional proverbs, and is driven by grievance against God and the world.
• For well over its first century, American foreign policy was a partnership between government and business, driven by efforts to keep markets open for exports and investments.

• If, as we are led to believe, that child safety is the prime reason for the changes here in St Paul's Drive I wonder if someone could explain the absence of a safe crossing.
• Maria, originally from Belvedere Drive, started campaigning against "excessive profiteering" when she was charged €6 for a small bottle of wine in a city bar in November 2003.
• We spent the entire morning shopping on Rodeo Drive.

• The two parts of the property were divided, with separate driveways constructed to either house.
• There is a long driveway up to the house from the avenue and there is plenty of off-street parking.
• Two of the cars were parked off the road in driveways.

Synonyms

• There is no drive, commitment or determination to do anything worthwhile on the pitch.
• Her energy, ambition and drive see her always looking towards the horizon to see what's coming next.
• To do this must have taken considerable drive and determination, that's all I can say!

Synonyms

• It is also used for regular card games and whist drives.
• One of the main social events in the hall is the Friday night whist drives which attract whist players from all over Laois and neighbouring counties.
• The whist drives which are in aid of the St. Vincent de Paul conference will continue each Monday night in St. Aidan's hall at 8.30 pm.

Synonyms

• I moved the car into drive and moved off toward the convenience store.
• We got in the car and he put the gears in drive, and soon we were rounding the block.
• I backed out of the parking space before knocking the gears into drive and pulling out of the Manor.

• Do not leave portable media such as CDs or floppy disks in drives.
• Much like flash memory, the drives are removable and can be easily replaced.
• Memory drives can store much more information than a floppy disk and are also considerably faster.

• I had just taken some lessons from my club pro, and I was hitting my drives in the fairway and the putts were dropping.
• After hitting a great drive, he put his second shot on the front of the green while his opponent was in trouble.
• Should you hit a bad shot on that first drive down the fairway, tee up another ball and try again.