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English translation: All options are still open

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10:20 Aug 5, 2011

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Law/Patents - Government / Politics

German term or phrase: stehen das alles zur Disposition

Jetzt, das sagt der Staatsschützer gleich zu Beginn, stehe das alles zur Disposition. Wie viel Risiko ist dieses Land bereit zu tragen, dafür, dass es regelmäßig auf der Weltrangliste der Demokratien ganz oben steht? "Diese Diskussion wird schon bald geführt werden", prophezeit Fitje

Jianming Sun KudoZ activity Questions: 2118 (none open) (12 closed without grading) Answers: 1172
Local time: 09:07

English translation:All options are still open

Explanation:
In the sense that the country is apparently at some kind of crossroads and needs to decide which path it should take as a leading democracy

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John Hein-Hartmann
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:07

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Summary of answers provided

3 +4

All options are still open

John Hein-Hartmann

3 +2

everything is still up for discussion

Anja Wulf

Everything is up in the air

John Hein-Hartmann

Discussion entries: 3

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47 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

All options are still open

Explanation:
In the sense that the country is apparently at some kind of crossroads and needs to decide which path it should take as a leading democracy

John Hein-Hartmann
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:07
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Thanks!

7 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

everything is still up for discussion

Explanation:
seems like the connotation of the German text is slightly more negative than "open options", which is a pretty upbeat way of saying that nothing has been decided yet. "Everything is still up for discussion" is perhaps a little more neutral.

Anja Wulf
Local time: 21:07
Native speaker of:

English,

German

20 hrs confidence:

Everything is up in the air

Explanation:
Taking on board all that has been said on the further context of the quote and comments made, perhaps this would be more appropriate.

John Hein-Hartmann
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:07
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

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Changes made by editors

Aug 5, 2011 - Changes made by Steffen Walter:
Field	Other => Law/Patents
Field (specific)	Law (general) => Government / Politics

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