Sentences with phrase «small irony»

LegalXMLA small irony here: on looking up the OASIS site that deals with LegalXML I see that the current headline is: «OASIS Members to Create Framework for Global Sharing of Criminal and Terrorist Evidence / XML Specification Will Deliver Reliable Authentication and Auditing to Safeguard Privacy and Increase Effectiveness of Lawful Intercepts» or the like could do the job.

It is no small irony that for a company which makes a sizeable portion of its fortunes by finding and exposing scandal, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is surprisingly bad at crisis management.

It is no small irony that Vice President Mike Pence and Franklin Graham, popular figures among many Chaldeans in the US, headlined the first ever World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians last month at the same time as Shaou lingers in custody in Michigan, still facing imminent deportation.

There's no small irony in the fact that Woolworths has announced its latest Amazon defence on the same day the US retail sector thrilled to reports about the early success of Amazon's takeover of upscale grocery chain Whole Foods.

There is no small irony in the fact that Silver's alleged abuse of the trial courts — US Attorney Preet Bharara charges that Silver abused his high office to corruptly make it rain for the power - house tort firm Weitz & Luxenberg — led to his own indictment.

It is perhaps no small irony that County Executive Mike Hein, self - proclaimed farm boy from Esopus, now finds himself in adulthood leading the fight against those ogres from New York City whom he says are deliberately and contemptuously muddying the waters of the Esopus Creek.

It is perhaps no small irony that County Executive Mike Hein, self - proclaimed farm boy from Esopus, now finds himself in

«It's no small irony that the entrepreneur behind SolarCity is foreign - born,» Hassett said.

A surprising theory holds that all the matter in the universe may have started out as neutrinos, which is no small irony, considering that until very recently neutrinos were thought to be entirely without mass and as immaterial as the light illuminating this page.

while Betsy Sharkey of the L.A. Times wrote, «There is no small irony that this sci - fi action adventure is about surviving a serious crash.

It's no small irony that a Republican hotbed is embracing a pedagogy typically associated with the cultural left.

So it's no small irony that in shaking his fist at the education idiocy du jour he accidentally made one of the strongest pro-school choice arguments I've ever read.

It is no small irony that President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan have been trying to shut down the federally funded voucher program that allows students to attend private religious schools in Washington.

And it is no small irony that dealing with the Family's issues is exactly the type of situation that Dr. Grind's parents thought they were preparing him for.

Film seems to have succeeded the written word as preferred narrative vehicle of our time; and though it is no small irony that writers have championed the cinema, they have articulated a unique insight into the medium.

And, certainly, there is no small irony in critiquing the creative numbness of the art market with pieces that will be sold on that very same market.

A small irony around the matter of Mr. Tyson's tattoo has to do with the fact that it mimics a Maori moko — and one in the most sacred location at that.

There's a small irony for Roku Ultra in 2017.