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Dieser hatte, um die absurd schiefen Machtverhältnisse zwischen den Geschlechtern in all ihrer Drastik zu zeigen, die grausame Geschichte der Entführung kurzerhand in ein großstädtisches Bordell verlegt. Und selbiges in den naturalistischsten Farben ausgemalt... [G] In order to show the absurdly distorted balance of power between the sexes in all its crude explicitness, he unceremoniously shifted The Seraglio's cruel plot so that now it took place in the brothel of a big city, decorated in the most naturalistic of colours...

Damit würde fast jede Maßnahme fiskalischer Autonomie eine staatliche Beihilfemaßnahme, entweder im betreffenden Gebiet oder, was noch absurder ist, im übrigen Mitgliedstaat. [EU] This would make almost every exercise of fiscal autonomy into a measure creating State aid, either in the jurisdiction in question or, still more absurdly, elsewhere in the Member State.

The example sentences [G] were kindly provided by the Goethe Institute.
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