Sentences with phrase «perhaps ironic»

In perhaps an ironic comparison, if a person in a non-unionized setting is disciplined for drug or alcohol use on the job, or is refused a job because of a positive pre-employment drug test, he or she can only claim discrimination on the basis of a disability if it is demonstrated that the he or she is addicted.

Lord Jackson attended at that seminar and although it is perhaps ironic that the Scottish Civil Courts Review may have a serious impact on the effectiveness of the current Court of Session procedures, in that they will be moved to the Sheriff Court, Lord Jackson, although approving of the Scottish system, was aware of the need for protection against awards of costs, which is of course currently widely available in England through the provision of ATE insurance.

Update on non-warming in Copenhagen: As emergency Global warming conference continues, it is perhaps ironic to study some weather information readily available on the internet.

Some celebrated bronze for its own characteristics and others exploited patination to suggest other materials, in a perhaps ironic, certainly non-traditional fashion.

When the world looks like it's falling apart, though, perhaps ironic detachment will begin to look less like an antidote to chauvinism and more like a banal evil, unequipped to fight the pricks of history.

Perhaps the ironic nature behind these works is a bit more recidivist than it might appear.

That they got a partial taste of it back is perhaps ironic justice, but hardly oppression.

In fact, it's widely considered the most «epic» work in all of Western literature — perhaps ironic since it's not known...

This, of course, is even more confusing — or perhaps ironic — should you consider that fixed print book prices are the law in Germany, France, Spain, and Italy, currently the four largest emerging e-book markets on the Continent.

That's perhaps ironic, considering the superhero industrial complex is all about creating «events,» but they feel orchestrated in a way that lacks the enthusiasm that made going to the movies a singular experience.

It's particularly fitting, or perhaps ironic, that the conventional wisdom he challenges regarding dietary templates for insect diversification was given its conceptual foundations in another Am Nat paper (Mitter et al. 1988).

It is perhaps ironic that the new Principal of Aberdeen University, who arrived at the beginning of this academic year, is himself a physicist.

It is perhaps ironic that the book won a British Medical Association Award for contributing to the public's understanding of science.

It is perhaps ironic that of all the methods of e-consultation, the Department of Culture Media and Sport had possibly the least sophisticated mechanism for enabling public consultation, and that instead it fell to representatives from active digital businesses within the UK to.

It is perhaps ironic that in casting Adam and Eve out of the Garden, God's curse upon Eve closely parallels God's own experience.

It is perhaps ironic but nevertheless delightful that the Roman Catholic Church has done more to restore a balanced approach to the use of Scripture in worship than any other church since the Reformation.

Perhaps ironic that those were meant to be hallmarks of the Emergent movement, but now it's happening outside their box, with Emergent as the focal point and not driving it.

It was perhaps ironic Adams wrote, that «World War I, proved to be a boon for the Gillette Safety Razor Company.»

Perhaps ironic given its subject matter, but The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese's based - on - a-true-story tale of Wall Street excesses and corruption, is the most pirated film of 2014, with over more than 30 million illegal downloads, according to Variety and analytics company Excipio.

Considering the effect it has had on the world, it is perhaps ironic that — up to now — the Internet has never really mastered the constraints of geography.

Not exact matches

This is ironic, perhaps even a little tragic, for a man who has given himself so passionately to the cause of human rights.

It is ironic that those who perhaps are most willing to listen to Calvin are also those who have most to learn from him.

That Murdoch can not find a way to accept this God who sees and seeks (who redeems), but instead embraces an impersonal and probably fictional Good, makes it ironic - perhaps contradictory would not be too strong a word - that she would conclude her book with these words from Psalm 139 (in the Authorized Version, of course):

It is ironic that many Americans are more receptive to what they see on the screen than to verbal efforts to bring out their problems, perhaps because they are used to electronic equipment in hospitals.

Or perhaps «odd» in the literal sense is the wrong word, for the story has an ironic symmetry.

Perhaps because it is deliciously ironic?

So then, such an ironic - ethical correction might very well be what our age needs, and perhaps the only thing it really needs; for it is evident that this is the thing it least thinks of.

-- how ironic that this is 100 % applicable to perhaps the greatest Big Lie, that gods exist.

Seems ironic that it says «Dump the Myth» about a known historical figure, Jesus of Nazareth, and «Keep the Merry» about an obscure, perhaps mythical Saint Nicholas.

Perhaps it is not so ironic as I once thought that, that which can be too hard to do we often find so easy to judge.

That's highly ironic considering that Benedict will be remembered as perhaps the most «conservative» pope since the 1950s - a leader who tried to assert theological principle over fashionable compromise.

It's ironic to think that Liverpool have their left - back issues currently, and so perhaps a move for their former youngster could yet come to fruition.

It is ironic that grown ups seek distant gurus to guide them to a consciousness of expectant, awareness when focused attention with a toddler, perhaps in a garden, might satisfy our mysterious yearning, might lead us back to the forgotten mindset our own early years.

Perhaps such things only work if they don't need explaining, but note I didn't have the bottle to post an ironic «in defence of rod liddle» making the Swiftian claim without book - ending it at the top and bottom, partly to avoid being misunderstood, at the risk of throwing away the device.

And as ironic as this turn of events might be, it was perhaps unavoidable.

Darkly ironic perhaps, that the families of the «disappeared» are themselves being kept out of sight.

I also noted that this was ironic because Brian has one of the best hearts in Tonawanda and perhaps all of Erie County.

It is ironic that many graduate students plan to have a career in academia but enter the job market with a major disadvantage: In many, perhaps most, cases the only formal training in teaching they receive is a short stint as a teacher's assistant (TA).

(Perhaps as an ironic jest, they allowed him to retain the title of «Emperor.»)

In perhaps the most ironic listing of all, a Chinese auction site listed a polar bear skin rug that sold for US $ 25,825.

It is an ironic thought, but perhaps, via female emancipation, they have been tackling it already.

Perhaps it's ironic that the object should arrive in a year when we celebrated the 100th anniversary (on December 16) of the birth of science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke.

I suspect we would never see a study like that due to reasons of efficacy (ironic perhaps in light of this study), however it would be interesting to see if there is any correlation.

I hope I just compliment a very beautiful women it's ironic for I seem to have been unsuccessful at perhaps an Intolerable criteria ladies if you're super fine and you should be worshipped like god let idolize such a rare uniqueness hard.

No one's favorite Coen brothers movie, The Man Who Wasn't There perhaps too heavily plays upon its ironic rendering of genre.

Ironic that the game takes place in 2077, yet I feel nothing will surpass this glorious piece of emotion evoking digital art for perhaps 8 decades.

Even Julian Casablancas, a singer I absolutely loathe with every fiber of my being, pulls off perhaps one of his most convincing vocal deliveries ever on Instant Crush, though it is a tad ironic considering he's auto - tuned the whole way through.

Perhaps more ironic, it actually has become a semi-regular staple on television showings around December, the perfect innocuous comedy for families looking to watch something that young and old can relate to, especially those who have experienced the «got ta have it» mentality among kids and teens alike.

Stillman's ironic detachment towards his protagonists (or perhaps we're actually supposed to find them quirky and interesting?)

What's worse, we openly ridicule anything that tries to be intelligent as «boring», «snooty», and, perhaps most ironic, «stupid».