Asked Thursday night if the NFL was showing a sense of humor or irony by having the Jets start with the Bucs, Ryan avoided the topic.
Then there are those U.S. Army hats, expressing irony or not.
The irony, or more aptly described telltale sign of the precarious nature of SWFs, is that countries which create and foster SWFs are not countries generally known for their strong belief in or fostering of the principles of capitalism within their own borders, yet they are adamant about exploiting capitalism within the borders of other sovereign nations.
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But consider the irony: an Arab or a Canadian has a better chance of seeing the subcontinent's greatest sporting event--live--than does any denizen of the subcontinent.
The outer world of banter and irony, a healing or at least comforting force, gradually vanishes, as does Midge, their embodiment, leaving us with increasingly lonely images and sounds.
By 2010 the powerful 486 chip will cost a quarter (or two bits, if you like the irony).
The great irony about the national curriculum tests (or SATs as parents have come to call them) is that one of the main reasons for their introduction was not so much to test children but to test schools and teachers.
It seemed no small irony that Jones's main beef, or at least her reason for going public, was her distress at what she contended was the libelously inaccurate portrayal of her in Brock's piece.
The irony is that Americans themselves seem to know this, or at least know that they should save more.
The irony was that many rural Indians never got to hear about or have the opportunity to see the car that was supposed to help transform their lives.
They like to slap it on anybody they think is extreme or out of touch, usually on social issues, which is the irony because the Tea Party started because Tea stands for taxed enough already as an acronym.
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Spain or Ireland may try and borrow their share of the bailout fund (such irony), but they do not get that AAA rating.
It facilitates a cheaper way of capturing greenhouse gases, which can either be pumped back into the coal seam, or be re-used to inject oilfields to increase recovery rates (OK, even I see the irony here).
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As consumers move aggressively toward dependence on cell phones, in some cases disconnecting landline service entirely, the irony is that telephony today often has long distance bundled right into a nationwide package for pennies a minute or no additional charge at all.
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