Sentences with phrase «ironic given»

First the US shut the door on highly skilled migration, ironic given that the US was built on immigration in the first place.

A cryptocurrency that is backed by a central bank is slightly ironic given that the main premise for Bitcoin is anonymity and decentralization.

This is a bit ironic given the criticism that faced the original Air (which hit stores about four years ago, believe it or not).

Not once did she mention mental illness — which is ironic given that a few short weeks before Ambrose's misleading remarks in the House of Commons she tweeted:

Newman's attack on provincial powers is particularly ironic given that at the Supreme Court Alberta and Saskatchewan have led the legal charge against federal monopolies and in support of cooperative federalism.

The use of «boutique» is particularly ironic given that plea bargaining has spread like kudzu to take over almost all of American criminal justice.

This is ironic given Christine Parker's research demonstrating that self - assessments and AMS lead to fewer complaints.

This is particularly ironic given the OPC's emphasis on data breaches and the need for the private sector to disclose breaches as quickly as possible.

I find this ironic given that you are presumably on the same side of the argument as Dan Kahan who is quoted as saying [T] here's good reason to believe that the self - righteous and contemptuous tone with which the «scientific consensus» point is typically advanced («assault on reason,» «the debate is over» etc.) deepens polarization.

how ironic given the subject of the original post.

However, it shouldn't be a big deal, Pearce misrepresents Schmidt (rather ironic given the topic of the meeting), Schmidt writes a pretty moderate letter of complaint, hopefully Pearce appologises and agrees to run such statements by Schmidt in future to make sure it doesn't happen again in the future.

is quite ironic given your blunder eh?

But you said that they claim the trend in the residuals is caused by GHGs, which leaves an awful lot out (ironic given the subject of the opening post).

Specifically, it will kill blue collar jobs in the fastest - growing field in the U.S., which is ironic given the administration's aggressive courting of blue collar votes.

His caveat at the end is ironic given that what he is struggling with regarding this so called «double ethical bind» is the compunction a scientists feels to take political action based upon their understanding of the science.

The Guardian noted that the choice of Montford was ironic given the serious inaccuracies in The Hockey Stick Illusion, which has also been criticized by numerous reviewers.

It is very ironic given that you said,»... and Roger Pielke Sr.'s blog (http://climatesci.colorado.edu/), as places you would find the aforementioned misconceptions.

I will resist the temptation to discourse off - topically about Ayn Rand, except to note that her use of the term «objectivism» was ironic given that, as John Reisman notes, her philosophy emphasized values, and the capacity to value is the essence of subjectivity.

No complaint in years has resonated with so many artists, ironic given the dire straits it claims for art.

The idea of «completely changing the market» seems rather ironic given that the very emergence of mobile apps has done just that: why else would Nintendo even be doing this?

Modern technology has further improved these games, which is ironic given how the series is about the dangers of technology run amok.

Pretty cool for that one to be your first Zelda game too — also somewhat ironic given the premise / setting for the game (TVTropes basically had a field day with that).

Ironic given one of his own characters, Corporate Commander, is a parody of «corporations who want all the money» and essentially he follows this very mindset with his YouTube videos where it's like «either I get all the money or f *** doing a video altogether, who cares what my fans want.»

Fanboys will always cry and whine about reviewers not giving their preferred platform high scores, which is ironic given that it shows reader bias more than anything else.

Even the title has been used in a previous game in the series, which is pretty ironic given that it's Resident Evil Outbreak's gameplay that Outbreak shares the most similarities with thanks to the extended focus on co-operative survival horror gameplay.

That is extremely ironic given your comment history.

Vanatta says the office objects to her using the money to help individual dogs with medical needs, which is maybe a little ironic given the money was raised to help an individual dog with medical needs.

The processor running the show has been bumped up to a quad core Nvidia Tegra 3 which means it's now a capable gaming machine - a tad ironic given the recent PlayStation Vita debut.

All of this is all the more ironic given Amazon's «customer - centric» philosophy.

Possibly a touch ironic given the 1810 kg kerbweight).

After driving the Durango I found its associated «Ron Burgundy» ad campaign, with the silent «D» in «Dodge,» even more ironic given that this SUV is so refined.

This is particularly ironic given that these classifications exist to provide «transparent information on characteristics and trends of trainee teachers to the public».

It's also ironic given that we know from Viviane Robinson's research that focusing on «making teachers teach better» is only half as effective as a leadership activity than modelling and leading teacher learning and building capacity for professional collaborative development.

This seems ironic given the large and well - regarded public higher education system in Michigan.

That's kind of ironic given the current belief that the purpose of No Child Left is to ensure all students regardless of their backgrounds should achieve at the same level.

This is particularly ironic given the fact that overall growth in performance was slightly higher for more - integrated schools between 1999 and 2000.

John Lithgow is coming off his Emmy - winning role as Winston Churchill in Netflix's The Crown, which is rather ironic given the Creed family cat which comes back to life is in fact named Church.

The 1960s Hanna - Barbera cartoon took the TV ratings by storm but has fared less well at the cinema, ironic given the show's title sequence features everyone going to the pictures.

Gunn as DJ is pumping out popular tunes, but for much of the film the audience doesn't join him on the dance floor - ironic given that dancing is one of the film's themes.

German actor August Diehl is playing the lead, which is somewhat ironic given that he's best known for his role as the vindictive Nazi Major in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.

Mulligan is competent if not slightly confined in the role of spirited Bathsheba, which is somewhat ironic given the mettlesome characteristics of her character and Mulligan's penchant for plucky but vulnerable heroines.

Which is ironic given that freedom is one of my most important values.

This is highly ironic given that the vast majority of dietary supplements are synthetically created in a laboratory environment and likely do not contain any natural, plant - based or nonsynthetic ingredients.

This is ironic given Collins's likely appointment to be head of the NIH.

This is ironic given...

Somewhat ironic given the recent focus in parliament on tax avoidance and tax evasion.

Rather ironic given that when Mr Duncan Smith was the Conservative leader it was Mr Maude who led the plotting for a replacement.

(Ironic given that I went on to have two home births but that is a different story — see previous post «The Accidental Home Birth»)

Ironic given that we all carry excellent cameras around with us 24/7.

It's especially ironic given that we ended up having to trade a 3rd rounder for Mrazek anyway, when it was reasonably foreseeable given Elliott's and Neuvirth's histories that they might both be unavailable at the same time.