Translated sentences containing 'facade'

The facade of the cathedral is adorned with Gothic arches.

La fachada de la catedral está adornada con arcos góticos.

It gave an elevating feeling to the entire facade.

Le dio una tendencia ascendente a toda la fachada.

This is all sham and facade, it is not realistic politics.

Aquí se engaña y se finge, ésta no es una política real.

Another called it a summit of impasse with a facade of forced smiles.

Otro la ha calificado de la cumbre de la vía muerta con una fachada de sonrisas forzadas.

The report’s nicely polished exterior is, however, a legal ‘Potemkin facade’.

Su bonito aspecto exterior no es sino una «fachada acorazada».

This gunboat diplomacy is no longer even being concealed behind the facade of the UN.

Esta política de la cañonera no se oculta ni tan siquiera detrás de la tapadera de la ONU.

Behind the essentially peaceful facade, tensions are rising which could explode given the right political situation.

Detrás de un marco fundamentalmente tranquilo, crecen las tensiones que en una situación políticamente adecuada podrían llegar incluso a estallar.

Three people were responsible for the crime, with instincts more bestial than human; three people who hid their baseness and perversion behind a facade of social respectability.

Los autores del delito son tres personas, cuyas características son más similares a las instintivas de las bestias que a las del ser humano; tres individuos que escondían sus bajezas y perversiones detrás de una fachada de respetabilidad social.

Its much-trumpeted democracy is nothing other than a facade behind which the totalitarian leaders of the Communist party have exchanged their party membership books for cheque books.

Su democracia tan anunciada a bombo y platillo no es otra cosa que una fachada tras la cual los líderes totalitarios del partido comunista han intercambiado sus tarjetas de afiliación al partido por talonarios de cheques.

So much for the ugly facade of the directive on recognition, which is designed to sweep away 35 old rulings in order to create greater clarity and legal certainty.

Todo esto respecto del feo atuendo de la directiva de reconocimiento, cuyo fin es limpiar 35 antiguas normas de la mesa y con ello conseguir más claridad y una mayor seguridad jurídica.

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