Sentences with phrase «supreme irony of»

The supreme irony of the localized epidemic is that Keyonta's neighborhood in southwest Baltimore is in the shadow of prestigious medical centers — Johns Hopkins, whose researchers are international experts on asthma prevention, and the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Here is one of the supreme ironies of history: for thousands of years in the Christian West, homosexuals have been the victims of inhospitable treatment — the true crime of Sodom - in the name of a mistaken understanding of Sodom's crime.

Not exact matches

The supreme irony, of course, is that we're talking about redistributive taxation: eliminating the tax breaks for the rich colleges and transferring some of their money to the poor schools.

Indeed, it is a supreme irony that many of the SDP's ideas only really became influential when championed by New Labour modernisers.

There's the early morning DJ (Brown, The Final Curtain) that no one even knows exists until months on the boat (you would think the DJ who relieves him would know, but no matter, it would ruin the joke), and there's the one - joke character, sexy Midnight Mark (Wisdom, 300) who remains sexy because he looks good and says nothing (an irony given that radio is where looks don't matter and the gift of gab reigns supreme).

In the wake of this news and in spite of these developments, just last week we got an outburst of supreme irony from Texas educators that should be embarrassing to them all.

But yesterday, in a moment of supreme --(ah)-- irony — representatives of these three entities held a press conference at the Legislative Office Building to announce that the solution to Connecticut's educational achievement gap is «personalized learning.»

The supreme irony now is that young women who have all the opportunities for academic freedom which you had to fight tooth and nail for, are accusing you of misogyny based not upon sexist behaviour, but upon your supposed «climate denier» status!

Given that Denniston has covered the Supreme Court since 1958, one of the great ironies of his tenure at SCOTUSblog was that the blog could never get press credentials, although Denniston was able individually to get credentialed.

That irony has now been tempered by the Supreme Court's ruling Alberta (Education) v. Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright), and in ways that bode well, in principle, for the life of intellectual property.

It is a tragic irony that sentencing judges in the Sixth Circuit are required to give enhanced deference to guidelines which the independent Commission, relied upon so heavily by the Supreme Court in upholding the Guidelines, has now declared flawed and in need of reform.

The irony here is that we now have a Supreme Court Justice who has an online footprint of his forays into controversial topics.