Übersetzung für "Janus face" in Deutsch

The consumer tax is also endowed with a 'Janus' face, something which renders it truly original.

I would think that mothers should be put on an equal footing throughout Europe, and we ought not to accept double standards or the Janus face.

I wonder whether the Commissioner shares my frustration at the Janus face of Member States on this issue, where on the one hand they complain about lack of knowledge by their citizens of EU activity, and then on the other hand frustrate the European Commission in terms of distributing information.

Heinrich Lienhard's account is thus a factual part-description of the Anglo-American conquest of the northern Western Hemisphere with its Janus-face of environmental destruction, racial annihilation, and of a simultaneous build-up of a vibrant Anglo-American variation of Western culture.

He always tried to hide his Janus face, for he let Pester Llloyd pay him well for his journalistic services, while at the same time his thoughts were permanently focused on getting away from the despised "provincial city" and from the "provincial newspaper."

In this way, foreground and background are linked on one image level, and new and surprising pictorial spaces arise - the face of the model becomes the janus-face for Peter Holl.

Using the image of the Janus face of Jesus/Joshua, he maintains that the Church promises peace up front, while from behind propagating and legitimising the appropriation of Canaan as well as colonial oppression and genocide.6 However, Linton's main interest lies less in the causes and effects of colonial aggression, which is soberly acknowledged as a fact, than in the construction of history.

Warhol's Jackies rework a piece of history in the age of media, which also here display their Janus face, communicating the events on the one hand and contributing to their production on the other.

Warhol’s Jackies rework a piece of history in the age of media, which also here display their Janus face, communicating the events on the one hand and contributing to their production on the other. At the same time, Warhol’s images themselves are part of this media history, to which the Jackies make a fundamental contribution by congealing the complex events into a recurring set of a handful of images.

Arginine, iNOS and NO indeed have a Janus face and at excessive levels may cause more harm than good and even cancer.

Because the back and front of the photo model merge together, the face that is drawn becomes a janus-face and sometimes even a cyclop.

On the level of society, the benefits and potentials of ageing need to be strengthened. On the other side, individual risks need to be detected in an early stage in order to minimise their impact. These two challenges characterise the Janus-face of ageing with its concomitance of gains and losses.

The topic Education and Science was the subject of Section 5 – a double Janus face, as the section leader, JENS SCHNEIDER (Osnabrück), put it: Education may be able to reduce social inequality, but at the same time it gives rise to the occurrence of (new) social inequality.

Between them, they have three faces and, while the larger statues with a Janus face was originally thought to be Roman, experts suspect it may actually portray a Celtic goddess. Pick up a ferry from Castle Archdale to White Island for even more mysterious figures.

But your examples certainly do underline the Janus-faced nature of modern research.

They are Janus-faced insofar as they point to different hemispheres.

Hence Janus, the two-faced Roman god, come to life.

Janus-faced, with a gleaming entrance and a security door as an emergency exit, it's Berlin's front yard.

Trojan is the two-faced Janus which makes evil under the mask of good.

Such is the generals’ Janus-faced approach to terrorism that six years after the Mumbai attacks, Pakistan has yet to try the seven Pakistani perpetrators in its custody.

The Romans also made New Year's resolutions by making sacrifices and promises to Janus, the 2 faced god with one face looking to the past and one to the future, promising to be a better person in the coming year.

In a "man-in-the-middle" cyber-attack, also called Janus attack (after the two-faced Janus of Roman mythology), the hacker places himself - or his harmful tool - between the victim and the resource called up, such as a bank website or an e-mail account.

So it is not currently all that clear anymore who the Stranger and who the Other is in the Janus-faced art scene, while those born into the position of Strangers and Others in society can scarcely shrug off the hatred and marginalization they gained once upon a time.

The United Nations' post-2015 agenda provides an opportunity to address and reduce this Janus-faced behaviour by working together to identify universal categories common to all and by being held accountable for their implementation.

The word ‘Janus-faced’ is used to describe people whose character or behavior shows two contradictory sides that can’t be reconciled.

This has shaped its Janus-faced character: on the one hand, Hezbollah was a fundamentalist, militant freedom fighting or terrorist organization, and on the other, a political party capable of compromising.