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ClarissaMach
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 Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 11:55 am Post subject: What "on the sidelines" means in this sentence? |
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His defection was first reported by Al Jazeera in an unsourced dispatch. Burhan Ghalioun, a member of executive bureau and former leader of the Syrian National Council, the anti-Assad opposition group, corroborated the report on the sidelines of a news conference in Moscow, where a council delegation was talking to Foreign Ministry officials about the Syrian conflict.
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Lorikeet
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| Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 9:34 pm Post subject: Re: What "on the sidelines" means in this sentence |
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| ClarissaMach wrote: |
His defection was first reported by Al Jazeera in an unsourced dispatch. Burhan Ghalioun, a member of executive bureau and former leader of the Syrian National Council, the anti-Assad opposition group, corroborated the report on the sidelines of a news conference in Moscow, where a council delegation was talking to Foreign Ministry officials about the Syrian conflict.
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It sounds to me like the news conference was called for another purpose, but he was in the room and corroborated the report while he was off to the side and not in the main discussion area. |
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