Sentences with phrase «irony if»

It would be an irony if pursuant to s 13 the ambit of the privilege was curtailed in relation to the risk of domestic incrimination, then the courts widened it to cover the risk of foreign incrimination.

It might be more of a stretch, but there would be some irony if this was pursued via a criminal action, say, The Rome Statute.

And don't imagine irony if you are not sure.

It will be the height of irony if it turns out that the IPCC models are right, but that Kaser et al are also right, that the Kilimanjaro glacier therefore begins to advance again AND that proves to help confirm the validity of the global warming forecasts!

Support for the PS TV is even worse: not only it's still lacking Netflix, but also Playstation's original TV series (which is quite an irony if you ask me).

It would be an amazing irony if the Coens, who have been on the cutting edge for most of their career, become the safe harbor for artistic conservatism this time around.

It'd be an even greater irony if Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity helped.

It would be a uniquely American irony if Alex P. Keaton, who taught a generation of young Republicans how to knot a tie, flipped Congress to the Democrats.

It would be a sad irony if the first taste of the British people gaining control over their own affairs after the Brexit vote would be diminished parliamentary control over the negotiation of trade agreements which affect their lives.

RM or MC At the least I'd like MC to still be in with a sniff, as we play them three days before the return fixture in Madrid What irony if Pellegrini wins Ol Big Ears in his sacked year

It would be a raw irony if the Sermon on the Mount were to end with a call to realise God's perfection through our human effort.

It'd be a fitting irony if a cable network were the one to do the disrupting.

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This is what it's like to have 12 weeks of leave after having a baby, if you're lucky enough to even have a job that offers it: You begin figuring out child care almost right away; the irony that you barely know how to take care of this little person and now must somehow assess someone else's ability to do so does not escape you.

If you enter an established industry or vertical, the irony is that you will have to work harder to gain a foothold than those before you.

If that irony was too painful, the case for art was represented in an equally packed session with irony - free Pharrell Williams.

«The irony is that if we ever became successful, we won't be allowed to sell on Etsy,» he says.

The irony is that the photo also included the caption, «If you don't like it, help us right it.»

Irony 3: If customer sentiment and the mining of unstructured text to understand customer feedback on products and services is happening within the traditional company, it is occurring in the digital marketing teams.

... And yet, the irony:... If you need someone else to carefully wield their power and hold their space for you, then you are a victim.

The irony of ACA is: if only those people whom it was truly intended for participated in it the overall cost would be much lower and it would actually be sustainable.

Irony — yes, Brave — only if defined as, «I warned you... now I'm going to obfuscate» (punish), Happy — they aren't and I am, despite the drop in value of my investment CRICKETS — Priceless!

the irony about this whole childish presentation is that muslims are a whopping 20 % of the world population, but if you total up ALL THEIR KILLING, MASSACRES, GENOCIDES over the last 100 years, the number does not even add up to ONE PERCENT of the WORLD»S total killings, massacres and genocides!!

But, if it brings people to a better understanding and appreciation of irony, then there may be hope for us after all.

Let's begin by meditating upon what might be called the first of the secular ironies now evident: Humanae Vitae's specific predictions about what the world would look like if artificial contraception became widespread.

Sozeee, your quip might have been a bit more poignant if it wasn't so very laden with irony.

If that is the case, talk about the irony of your criticisms.

If you are actually trying to get information, not demonstrate irony, then try asking politely.

And, while Jesus, Paul and the biblical authors used effective irony, cutting sarcasm is rarely — if ever — used.

If I had a dog I'd name him Spot, with irony.

Writing of her mother, Flannery O'Connor once told a friend, «I always thought that if she had a dog she'd name him Spot» without irony.

And if I still refused to understand him, he would no doubt bring me to despair by the coldness of his irony, as he unfolded to me that he owed me as much as I owed him.

You cessationists (based on the language you used I'm assuming that's the position you hold) love to talk about a «completed Bible», but here's the irony, if you profess to have such a strong faith in this Bible, you must walk it out.

I was with you on this one, David, till the end when you turned the blame as - if on your self for not «conforming like a good soldier,» when in fact your non-conforming is the virtue of your integrity, some what tarnished by your irony: faux blame.

If this is right, then it is an amazing irony.

If we had more imagination in our communities of faith, more irony and more honesty, maybe we would feel the joy too.

One of the chief ironies of taking a stand is that if you're successful, history will eventually pretend that it stood with you all along.

I suspect that if you took spousal and child abuse statistics in the US (and account at least a little bit for what goes unreported), you'd probably find that the spectrum of our «Christian» nation doesn't exactly have a lot to brag about either (but of course anyone who abuses children or spouse can't POSSIBLY be a «true Christian»... and I hope you see the irony in that remark).

Challenge us and ask us about the differences between Yahwistic vs. Elohimistic traditions in Old Testament canon), but this shows the tragedy — or perhaps the irony — of faith: in America, if not elsewhere, the concept of faith is kept at such a simplistic level that most people just plain «believe» without having any form of knowledge (in spite of the Bible stating, «Where is the wise man?

It is as if, in the end, his sense of irony wins out over his liberal sentiments, and he does not want to get involved.

The irony and paradox if this process of victimization will take place in the midst of global economic growth and technological advancement.

Here is the irony: we try to secure the Bible's authority by claiming that it is inerrant; but to show that it is inerrant we apply «a norm external to the Bible to which the Bible must conform if it is to be regarded as true»; and discover, finally, that by this norm we are compelled to admit that «the truth of the Bible can only be established as highly probable.

The irony is that, while open theists are constantly accused of limiting God's knowledge, if my analysis is correct, it was the classical tradition that limited God's knowledge!

If the image of the giving tree as a happy provider of unconditional love was meant to be ironic, that irony will probably escape the kids to whom the book is addressed.

If the Onion was satirizing Christians for being «brainwashed idiots» who happen to be serving the poor, where's the irony?

Yeats, who wrote the original line, was relatively untroubled by irony, and if that sometimes meant he sounded absurd, it also made possible his many unforgettable lines.

There is a delicious irony in Christians complaining about having atheism forced on them, when everywhere you look there are Christian symbols, there are evangelists asking if we atheists have «heard the good news», and most infuriating, there are those who would deny basic civil rights to those who offend their Jesus.

(If there is a meta - irony in Mansfield Park, it is not that Austen secretly mocks Fanny; it is rather that Austen, the ironist, the realist, the literalist, is in the end Bunyan's blood - sister.)

If understanding is a closure of meaning that requires the irony of interpretation to develop an openness to textual otherness, the text itself must not be regarded as a shell - like container from which its otherness can be extracted as a «thing».

In the final analysis: If God made me (or you, or my dad, or anyone else) a curious, questioning, restless, cynical, depressive agnostic (irony meter BUSTED!

But if hostile to light irony, religion is equally hostile to heavy grumbling and complaint.