Translation of "Licht- und schattenseiten" in English

Undoubtedly, there were ups and downs, but I will not go into them here.

I believe that we must highlight the good and bad aspects of this issue.

All we can say so far is that there have been bright and dark sides.

Nice obviously had its good and bad points; unfortunately there were a great many bad points.

Like all change, this also has its good and bad sides.

My father is an artist... with all the strengths and weaknesses that implies.

Undoubtedly, there were ups and downs, but I will not go into them here.

Like any huge city, Bangkok has its share of good and bad.

To accept history means to allow oneself to be challenged by its bright and dark sides.

There are both sunny and shady sides to this part of the German past.

The same advantages and disadvantages also apply to the universalistic model of Europe.

The bright and shady sides of life are incorporated into her paper artefacts.

But also a dream profession has light and dark sides.

Success has also a dark side.

In Ecclesiastical History, we elaborate the historical development of Christianity in all its light and shadows.

She is the fountainhead of art and of the artist’s engagement with the lighter and darker sides of human existence.

For it is to that Congress that we owe the long period of peace that gave rise to the astonishing economic upswing of that era, which had both its bright and its dark sides.

It is a much more complex, more active world, with good things and bad, but also with enormous possibilities.

After the rapporteur's brilliant exposition there is little to add as regards the lights and shades of the Molitor report.

The last example, which is similar to your proposal, Mr President, is to organise meetings of members of civil society from the candidate countries and Member States to examine, together, the ins and outs of this quite historic undertaking and to give us the best possible chances of making it a success.

The 56th Commission on Human Rights of last year inevitably had its high and low points.

As for the actual draft Constitution, there are positive and negative points in the Commission's eyes, as you know.

I would therefore like to express my appreciation of the Pomés Ruiz report, which has the merit of portraying the light and the shade - more shade than light - of a situation which, with the basic premises having been identified, now calls for financial commitment, more courage and political will following specific recognition of ongoing structural disadvantages, the nature of which has thus far been wholly unclear.

It was necessary to evaluate the ins and outs of the draft Constitution so that the citizens can express their opinion on it when the time comes and so that it may be clear that the European Parliament accepts and supports this draft as a compromise, a realistic negotiated position between the ideal solutions it has been advocating and the possibilities for putting them into practice at this time.

First, while not hostile to the utilization of nuclear energy, the Commission discusses its merits and demerits from different viewpoints without taking up a definitive position.

But as the day consists of day AND night, so the history of every nation has its bright and dark sides.