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User_gary Posted 16 years ago
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Pull out an aircraft, constitution
Union Ministers Sharad Pawar and Praful Patel came in the Opposition's line of fire, which demanded their resignation in the wake of IPL controversy. It also demanded the constitution of a Joint Parliamentary Committee to probe the IPL controversy, a plea the government promised to consider.
Business in Parliament was disrupted with Opposition leaders demanding that only a JPC probe would have credibility, as there were allegations of the involvement of two ministers.
The Rajya Sabha was adjourned after lunch without transacting any business with BJP members insisting on a JPC probe.
Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj raked up the issue saying it
was getting "more serious by the day" and demanded a JPC probe to save the dignity of the House and to throw light on it.
The CPI leader in Lok Sabha described it as the "most serious fraud unparalleled in the history of independent India".
He held forth that unpardonable violation of law has taken place for the last two years under the nose of the government.
The two ministers, who belong to NCP, an important ally of the Congress at the Centre and in Maharashtra, were targeted in both the Houses but their names were not not taken.
Opposition leaders also targeted Patel in the wake of reports that his daughter Poorna allegedly pulled out an aircraft from a scheduled flight for operating a chartered flight for an IPL team. Air India denied this.
Please explain to me the emboldened parts.
Though I know "constitution" is a composition of different elements and "pull out" means "stop" in general.
Source : http://freepressjournal.in/FPJ/FPJ/2010/04/24/ArticleHtmls/24_04_2010_002_009.shtml?Mode=image
Business in Parliament was disrupted with Opposition leaders demanding that only a JPC probe would have credibility, as there were allegations of the involvement of two ministers.
The Rajya Sabha was adjourned after lunch without transacting any business with BJP members insisting on a JPC probe.
Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj raked up the issue saying it
was getting "more serious by the day" and demanded a JPC probe to save the dignity of the House and to throw light on it.
The CPI leader in Lok Sabha described it as the "most serious fraud unparalleled in the history of independent India".
He held forth that unpardonable violation of law has taken place for the last two years under the nose of the government.
The two ministers, who belong to NCP, an important ally of the Congress at the Centre and in Maharashtra, were targeted in both the Houses but their names were not not taken.
Opposition leaders also targeted Patel in the wake of reports that his daughter Poorna allegedly pulled out an aircraft from a scheduled flight for operating a chartered flight for an IPL team. Air India denied this.
Please explain to me the emboldened parts.
Though I know "constitution" is a composition of different elements and "pull out" means "stop" in general.
Source : http://freepressjournal.in/FPJ/FPJ/2010/04/24/ArticleHtmls/24_04_2010_002_009.shtml?Mode=image
Top answer
com/dictionary/constitution : "the act of establishing, making, or setting up". I think the "pulled out" sentence is trying to say that she commandeered ("pulled out") the aircraft for use on the IPL charter flight. If so, it's not very well written.
- com/dictionary/constitution : "the act of establishing, making, or setting up".
- I think the "pulled out" sentence is trying to say that she commandeered ("pulled out") the aircraft for use on the IPL charter flight.
- If so, it's not very well written.
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"constitution" has sense 3 at http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/constitution : "the act of establishing, making, or setting up".
I think the "pulled out" sentence is trying to say that she commandeered ("pulled ou
I think the "pulled out" sentence is trying to say that she commandeered ("pulled ou
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Thank you Mr. Wordy for all your replies in my threads.
But I cannot understand yet what it exactly means "the aircraft for use on the IPL charter flight".
Does it mean, "she didn't turn up his workplace to operate the flight and instead he went to operate a flight that is rented to carry IPL teams"?
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Does it mean "She rented the flight which was scheduled for public t
But I cannot understand yet what it exactly means "the aircraft for use on the IPL charter flight".
Does it mean, "she didn't turn up his workplace to operate the flight and instead he went to operate a flight that is rented to carry IPL teams"?
Or
Does it mean "She rented the flight which was scheduled for public t
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This is how I understand it. The aircraft was originally supposed to fly an ordinary scheduled flight, carrying ordinary passengers. This Poorna woman somehow used her (or her father's) influence to cancel the scheduled flight and procure the aircraft to carry an IPL team on a charter flight instead. (A "charter flight" is when you rent a whole aircraft for a specific purpose -- in this case tran
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By the way, the reason I'm quibbling about this sentence is the apparently incorrect use of "for".
"pulled out an aircraft from a scheduled flight for operating a chartered flight" means that the airline had previously operated a charter flight, and she later cancelled one of their scheduled flights as some sort of punishment or sanction for operating the charter. This seemed not
"pulled out an aircraft from a scheduled flight for operating a chartered flight" means that the airline had previously operated a charter flight, and she later cancelled one of their scheduled flights as some sort of punishment or sanction for operating the charter. This seemed not
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