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Social Sciences - Advertising / Public Relations | | German term or phrase: Zukunftsaufgabe | Das Thema Gesundheit entwickelt sich immer mehr zu einer treibenden Kraft in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Die Region Köln-Bonn ist für diese Zukunftsaufgabe bestens aufgestellt.
The Cologne-Bonn region is well prepared for this "task for the future/future task/...
...I don't think that flows properly. This is part of a foreword for a publication on the health care industry in this region so it needs to sound smooth, and right now at least, "future task" or similar just doesn't seem to be grasping it...
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| Rose NewellKudoZ activityQuestions: 3 (none open) Answers: 26
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Andrew Swift
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Local time: 13:08
| Grading comment Hi Andrew
Many thanks for your most helpful answer. I knew there must be a better way of saying it, but it just wasn't coming to me! See you at the next Nottingham Powwow, finally!
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7 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +5 | ist für diese Zukunftsaufgabe bestens aufgestellt is ideally placed to rise to this (future) challenge
Explanation:
IMO, 'future' is superfluous in the context.
(Asker's criterion: "I don't think that flows properly. This is part of a foreword for a publication on the health care industry in this region so it needs to sound smooth...")
In many ways, the EU was ideally placed to rise to the challenge of global warming.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e7dbf700-4b1e-11de-87c2-00144feabd...
He argues that civil engineering is ideally placed to rise to the challenge and explores the opportunities to innovate in design while providing better solutions to problems like climate change, energy management, poverty and water scarcity.
http://www.ice.org.uk/Information-resources/Document-Library...
Given our long history of research in fundamental, strategic and applied agricultural and environmental sciences, we are ideally placed to rise to the future challenge of balancing the needs for food production, energy provision and biodiversity in a changing climate.
http://www.findamasters.com/search/courseDetails.aspx?CID=11...
This type of project is often very complex are we are ideally placed to rise to that challenge.
http://www.stephenjenkins.co.uk/home_office_design.php
Television news will undergo revolutionary change in the next decade and we are now ideally placed to rise to the challenge.
http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/news/15028/ITN-wins-contr...
| Andrew Swift
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:08
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 123
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| | Grading comment Hi Andrew
Many thanks for your most helpful answer. I knew there must be a better way of saying it, but it just wasn't coming to me! See you at the next Nottingham Powwow, finally! |
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