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auch nur annähernd vollständig abzubilden

English translation: nowhere near to providing a complete [exhaustive] picture [account]


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German term or phrase: auch nur annähernd vollständig abzubilden
English translation:nowhere near to providing a complete [exhaustive] picture [account]
Entered by: Paula Price
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10:01 May 15, 2004
German to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Advertising / Public Relations
German term or phrase: auch nur annähernd vollständig abzubilden
Die folgenden Ausführungen sind eine Sammlung von Fehlern, die im Werbebereich aus wettbewerbsrechtlicher Sicht unbedingt vermieden werden sollten. Das Dokument versteht sich als Anleitung, diese Fehler zu vermeiden und erhebt keinen Anspruch darauf, die wettbewerbsrechtliche Lage im Werbebereich auch nur annähernd vollständig abzubilden.

(Guidelines on advertising)
Paula Price
Local time: 13:11
nowhere near to providing a complete [exhaustive] picture [account]
Explanation:
This document comes nowhere near to providing a complete [exhaustive] picture [account] of the competition law situation in the advertising industry.

OR: The guideline ***cannot in any way be considered exhaustive*** in terms of its reflecting the competition law situation in the advertising industry.
Selected response from:

Steffen Walter
Germany
Local time: 14:11
Grading comment
Thanks very much!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



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4 +4nowhere near to providing a complete [exhaustive] picture [account]
Steffen Walter


  

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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
auch nur annähernd vollständig abzubilden
nowhere near to providing a complete [exhaustive] picture [account]


Explanation:
This document comes nowhere near to providing a complete [exhaustive] picture [account] of the competition law situation in the advertising industry.

OR: The guideline ***cannot in any way be considered exhaustive*** in terms of its reflecting the competition law situation in the advertising industry.

Steffen Walter
Germany
Local time: 14:11
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 73
Grading comment
Thanks very much!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  writeaway: does not/makes no claim that ... is even anywhere close/near to providing ... (your English structure would be difficult to fit into the context, imho
30 mins

agree  gangels: with writeaway
1 hr

agree  Mary McCusker: with the 'or' and writeaway/klaus. Another formulation is 'does not purport/pretend to be a full and accurate account...'
3 hrs

agree  Kim Metzger
7 hrs
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