Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “within one’s rights” and its meaning is “having the moral right/authority to do, get or have something; entitled, authorized”.
Example Sentence: Apparently annoyed that the Centre is supplying free rice to the poor under the Prime Minister’s Garib Kalyan Yojana to overcome the effects of COVID-19 and yet flex boards carrying Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s picture did not find a place in fair price shops of Telangana, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman frowned at the Collector that the Centre was within its rights to see the pictures of a great person like Mr. Modi at shops as it supplied the rice free by ensuring logistics in place, free transport, and storage. The pictures were essential to see that the rice reached the poor.
This phrase is present in The Hindu article Nirmala Sitharaman fumes at absence of PM Modi’s picture at Telangana PDS shop and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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