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At the risk of
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Aug 20, 2008 17:24
16 yrs ago
English term

a whole has excelled

English Art/Literary General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
At the risk of discussing a superfluous range of measures for what is commonly termed eMaturity, the GCC’s march towards eGovernment a whole has excelled in general terms over the last decade.
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2 +12 AS a whole (the march/process as a whole was successful)
2 The whole GCC's march has excelled
References
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) was e...
Change log

Aug 27, 2008 13:34: Mark Berelekhis changed "Field" from "Other" to "Art/Literary"

Discussion

Janet Cannon Aug 21, 2008:
My "antennas" buzz at the beginning. Maybe they mean "Even though we could discuss or (pose questions about) different issues of varying importance on the question of eMaturity, on the whole, the progress of the GCC toward eGovernment has generally excelled over the last decade. ("generally" is superfluous, in fact, after "on the whole...)
Abdelmonem Samir (asker) Aug 20, 2008:
Gulf Cooperation Council
Jack Dunwell Aug 20, 2008:
What is GCC, please?

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AS a whole (the march/process as a whole was successful)

That's the only way the sentence begins to make any kind of sense to me. Though a number of spots still trouble me.
Peer comment(s):
agree John Alphonse (X) : "as a whole" meaning "overall" or "in general" as being two possible uses. This is what I mean, Mark: "The march toward eGov in general has excelled over the last decade." 'In general' and 'overall' are fair equivalents. "Basically" is another.
5 mins
Thank you, John. The 'in general terms' that follows threw me off, still does.
agree Ramesh Bhatt
7 mins
Thank you, Ramesh.
agree Jack Doughty
21 mins
Thank you, Jack.
agree María Teresa Taylor Oliver : I read it the same way... The "in general terms" also threw me off.
25 mins
Thank you, Maria.
agree Dana Rinaldi : This is how I read it too!
30 mins
Thank you, Dana.
agree jccantrell
56 mins
Thank you, jc.
agree Mohamed Mehenoun
1 hr
Thank you, Mohamed.
agree Demi Ebrite
1 hr
Thank you, debrite.
agree Patricia Townshend (X)
2 hrs
Thank you, Patricia.
agree Deborah Workman
7 hrs
Thank you, Deborah.
agree Phong Le
12 hrs
Thank you, phong.
agree kmtext
13 hrs
Thank you, kmtext.
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The whole GCC's march has excelled

This is my personal guess. Just like Mark, some words in this sentence trouble me.

I think we can reword this sentence into:
"The whole GCC's march towards eGovernment has excelled in most (if not all) aspect over the last decade"
The "whole" here refers to the GCC's march.
Hope this helps.
CMIIW :D
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Reference comments

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Reference:

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) was established in 1981. Its member states are: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Oman.

One of the reasons this sentence is difficult is that while referring to the Gulf Cooperation Council, it is also referring to eGovernment, and 'GCC' (GNU) open source platform. The second URL ref is a good overview of both the GCC open source, and the GCC members use (or non-use) of it.
Reference:

http://gcc.gnu.org/

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:aW2gNkCPEgQJ:www.clabbyanalytics.com/uploads/A_Call_for_Middle_East_eGovernment_Open_Source.docx

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