For me it was ironic that most humans don't remember God unless they are in trouble.

That outcome is as frustrating as it is ironic.

What happened next was what I have called an ironic reversal.

Putin s Ironic Potential

BRUSSELS Sometimes history can be too ironic.

The ironic sequel was Somalia s later fragmentation in a civil war among its clans and warlord leaders.

It treated tradition and history not as a constraint, but as a source of ironic reference.

And it always manages to evade the major policy elephants in the room which is especially ironic in this case, as Slaughter was worn out by crafting policy.

But that liberating sentiment has recently undergone an ironic twist.

The phrase becomes an ironic meme on the Chinese Internet.

Most ironic is the self fulfilling critique that many activists now use.

This kind of policy is ironic, absurd, and shortsighted all at once.

Of course, from a French perspective, the US role is somewhat ironic.

By killing three Israeli civilians, these acts of murder represent an ironic tragedy.

Looking back, it is ironic that the Chinese government s draconian one child policy, imposed in 1979, was implemented at the same time as the open door policy, aimed at capturing labor intensive foreign manufacturing investment.

It is ironic that the ECB s offer to buy Italian and Spanish debt has exacerbated external imbalances by raising the value of the euro.

It's produced to get sulfur out of gasoline which I find is somewhat ironic.

Global Voices also reported on the ironic version of Happy from Rio de Janeiro.

And I hate to be so ironic and sarcastic about it but it's the truth. It's just one of the filthiest cesspools you can imagine.

It is indeed sad and ironic that when we are reaching the tail end of the rebellion there are calls for such a course of action.

The fact that Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa has emerged as Assange s foremost ally is profoundly ironic.

The sad ironic point is that some groups ended up issuing edicts calling for his blood.

Concerns and comments, including ironic ones, were also expressed on social media sites under the hashtag uranio.

Isn't it ironic that now in the tenth year of the new millennium meat prices have reached 70 EGP, and both the people and the state have agreed on boycotting it this time.

It is ironic, to say the least, that the West s democratically elected governments happily engage with members of the Muslim Brotherhood, but refuse to work with more liberal groups.

This is ironic, because the term industrial policy is anathema in American political discourse. It is used almost exclusively to browbeat political opponents with accusations of Stalinist economic designs.

And of course, looking at this lion paw that has been skinned, it eerily reminds me of a human hand, and that's ironic, because their fate is in our hands.

Given the ironic reversal of globalization fears, Kipling is still right convergence has continued to elude East and West.

And the ironic thing about it is that they are not staving off the aquatic theory to protect a theory of their own, which they've all agreed on, and they love.

It would be both tragic and ironic if a restored Germany, by peaceful means and with the best of intentions, brought about the ruin of the European order a third time.

It is particularly ironic that many Kurds from Turkey s southeastern provinces, having been promised Armenian property and a guaranteed place in heaven for killing infidels, were willingly complicit in the genocide.

When I look back now, it s kind of ironic that Arab American publications didn t give us any press when we first started.

As recounted by a member of a Kenyan NGO, Too often in recent years, a tragic and ironic story has been repeated.

It is monumentally ironic since the Pope did not come here to see only true, the good and the beautiful . The Pope came here to hear about the problems of the poor and marginalized.

The bans are especially ironic, given that, according to UNESCO, Iran has the highest rate of female to male undergraduates in the world.

It is therefore ironic to see the US Treasury Secretary once again pushing for capital market liberalization in India one of the two major developing countries (along with China) to emerge unscathed from the 1997 crisis.

I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with is how you actually define poverty. What does it mean?

As Kenneth Rogoff, a Harvard professor and former chief economist of the IMF notes, It is ironic, given that we just messed up big time, that the response of foreigners is to pour more money into us.

Today, in fact, as the financial and economic crisis unfolds before our eyes, it is ironic to compare the relative strength of Central Europe, behind a strong Poland, to the extreme vulnerability of Southern Europe, behind Greece.

It is ironic that, as rockets from Gaza reach the outskirts of Tel Aviv, those Israelis who celebrated the partition, and their descendants, do not see the importance of fulfilling the other half of the partition plan.

It is ironic indeed that US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, a former head of Goldman Sachs, a firm that exemplifies financial triumphalism, is spearheading the effort to save government sponsored behemoths that have so conspicuously outlived their usefulness.

What is unbelievably ironic is the period that we tried to depict in the film, the cry for democracy and social justice, repeats itself now again in Tehran.

It is especially ironic that, in stark contrast to his own rhetoric, Bush s call for a Middle East peace conference is a call to wage war against the party, Hamas, that won a democratic election, and to make peace with the loser, Fatah.

What happened next was what I have called an ironic reversal. As the benefits of globalization became manifest, and the damage wrought by autarkic policies also became evident, policymakers in the East began to appreciate that their anti globalization stance had been a mistake.

It is indeed ironic that the tsunami disaster happened at a time when we were in the midst of preparing ourselves for an important summit to be held in September 2005, at which some of us feared security issues were going to overwhelm the global agenda.