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English translation: the faculty will tackle the issue of ........


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Dutch term or phrase:grijpt de faculteit aan
English translation:the faculty will tackle the issue of ........
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12:26 Oct 13, 2005
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Dutch term or phrase: grijpt de faculteit aan
Het najaar 2005 grijpt de faculteit aan zich te bezinnen op de bemensing van het systeem.

I'm not sure about the aangrijpen bit. I know that aangrijpen often means to seize/take advantage of, for example, to seize an opportunity, but I'm not sure if it means that here, particularly as there is no object (e.g. opportunity, chance) mentioned. Unless the najaar 2005 is itself the object. Perhaps the faculty is seizing (the opportunitity of) autumn 2005 to think about staffing issues for the system?

Could anyone kindly help me with this sentence please.
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the faculty will tackle the issue of ........
Explanation:
one way. het najaar is simply WHEN they are going to do it.
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Local time: 06:30
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Thank you everyone for your help!
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3 +5the faculty will tackle the issue of ........
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5will turn its attention to
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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +5
the faculty will tackle the issue of ........


Explanation:
one way. het najaar is simply WHEN they are going to do it.

writeaway
Local time: 06:30
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 30
Grading comment
Thank you everyone for your help!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lawyer-Linguist: precisely, just in the autumn
10 mins
agree  Harry Borsje: in the spirit of falling leaves a rather ominous opening remark...\\Add: actually they're not going to tackle it yet, but just sit and think on it
14 mins
agree  Elwing: Actually the Dutch sentence does not even sound good :D
20 mins
  -> to me at least it seems like very heavy German-style writing.
agree  Dave Calderhead
4 hrs
agree  mariette
11 hrs
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24 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
will turn its attention to


Explanation:
In the autumn of 2005 the faculty will turn its attention to staffing the system.

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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in DutchDutch
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