Ironically, the following two seasons also saw the Cubs get off to a fast start, as the team rallied to over 10 games above. 500 well into both seasons, only to again wear down and play poorly later on, and ultimately settling back to mediocrity.

Ironically, Lucius Verus died in 169, and Marcus Aurelius himself died in 180, both victims of the plague.

Ironically, both of the Presidents making the offer to Webster died in office, meaning the three-time Presidential candidate could have become President if he had accepted either.

Ironically, both Bergman and Antonioni died on the same date.

Ironically both of these levels she has been kidnapped ( she is kidnapped by Phoenix Group after discovering their plan ).

Ironically, the song itself was a wry comment on the music-video phenomenon, sung from the point of view of an appliance deliveryman both drawn to and repelled by the outlandish images and personalities that appeared on MTV.

Ironically, both men fought to a draw and each retained their respective titles.

Ironically, the Oxnard brothers never lived in their namesake city, and they sold both the Chino and the giant red-brick Oxnard factory with its landmark twin smokestacks in 1899 for nearly $ 4 million.

Ironically, the band decided to split just as they were beginning to obtain long-overdue commercial success both in their native UK and internationally, with Oil On Canvas becoming their highest charting UK album, reaching No. 5 on the UK Albums Chart.

Ironically, from that practice during an attenuated political marriage of convenience which would soon be divorced in blood ( in 1927 ), Asian Marxist movements and governments henceforth would all consider this attire as a standard of political coloration, and it would continue to be appropriate dress for both sides of the bitter Chinese civil wars lasting decades.

Ironically, however, both the state and Church interference became something that Irish people began to resent.

Ironically, both artists would have hits at King working with Rock & Roll Hall of Fame producer Ralph Bass, becoming good friends and routinely competing in battles of the bands at clubs like Atlanta's Royal Peacock in that city's Sweet Auburn section.

Ironically, both had plans that were considered highbrow and both suffered launch problems with low audience ratings and financial difficulties that led to outside parties taking large stakes in the companies and significant changes in business strategy before stability was achieved.

Ironically, this song was later included on Fergie's album The Dutchess and both Renee and Stefanie were given songwriting credit.

Ironically, both Social Democrat factions were represented in the 2008 party elections by Manuela Ferreira Leite, economically neoliberal and socially conservative ( often compared to Thatcher ).

Ironically, both Smokey Robinson and Bobby Rogers were born in the same hospital on the same month, date and year, despite not actually meeting each other until they were fifteen.

Ironically, both men found common ground in their support of Woodrow Wilson.

Ironically, soon after their discoveries, both Stark and Lo Surdo rejected developments in modern physics and allied themselves with the political and racial programs of Hitler and Mussolini.

Ironically both of these two top parties also allied with him and his Jatiya Party in time of their need to suit their purpose.

Ironically, the contents of the plate was not really Trunks, but a cleverly made decoy by both Trunks and Giru.

Ironically, although they could not agree, both respected the other and would not have wished that outcome.

Demand from ABC's European distributor EMI for a What A Wonderful World album forced ABC to issue one but they did not promote the album either so it did not chart in the U. S. Ironically, twenty years later, it became the most successful recording of both Armstrong and Thiele's careers, thanks to its inclusion on the hit soundtrack to the Robin Williams film Good Morning Vietnam.

Ironically, Hughes scored for Chelsea in both of their Premier League fixtures against Manchester United in 1995 – 96 ; a 4 – 1 win for United at Stamford Bridge in October and a 1 – 1 draw at Old Trafford in early December.

( Ironically, Blondell, who plays Mansfield's frumpy middle-aged, all-business secretary, was herself a major movie sex symbol some thirty years before — and whose sexuality was one of the first victims of the Hays Code ).

Ironically, this appointment to a senior position in the Finnish administration was approved by the new Governor General of Finland, Nikolai Bobrikov, whose term in office saw the beginning of the period of Russification, and whose policies represented all that the constitutionalist Ståhlberg was opposed to.

Ironically for an actor whose roles often comprised playing a drunk, Frinton was a teetotaller, having seen in others the damage that alcohol could do.

Ironically, only the U. S. Marine Corps, whose commanders had stored and maintained their World War II surplus inventories of equipment and weapons, proved ready for deployment, though they still were understrength and in need of suitable landing craft to practice amphibious operations ( Johnson had transferred most of the remaining craft to the Navy and reserved them for use in training Army units ).< ref name = Shipmate2000 > As U. S. and South Korean forces lacked sufficient armor and artillery to repel the North Korean forces, Army and Marine Corps ground troops were instead committed to a series of costly rearguard actions as the enemy steadily progressed down the Korean peninsula, eventually encircling Pusan.

Ironically, given that many of the ideas which so appalled Pope Pius IX came from France via the revolutions of 1789 and after, Pius's control of the Papal States rested on France, whose army under Emperor Napoleon III defended the Papal States from attack.

Ironically, the Dorval Airport was renamed Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport after the Canadian Prime Minister, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, whose government spearheaded the Mirabel project to replace Dorval.

Ironically, Tegenaria duellica is the only species in the whole family whose bites can penetrate human skin far enough to inject venom into the lymphatic system ( Tegenaria agrestis have recently proven to be unable to envenom humans overall ).

Ironically, Bayer 04 was the first Bundesliga club whose fans identified themselves as Ultras and the city of Leverkusen is one of the old industrial cities of Germany.

Ironically, Wu Qi was from the same state ( Wei ) as Shang Yang, whose legalistic reforms turned Qin into an invincible war machine at this stage.

Ironically, Weaver's ancestral region, Asheville, North Carolina, was not typical of the American South whose virtues he came to revere and extol.

Ironically, this has led to the emergence of the only widespread organisation of any note in the chaotic Beyond, the Deweaseling Corps, whose sole purpose is to detect and kill weasels wherever they find them.

Ironically, however, the affranchis were barred the actual franchise ( voting ) prior to a 1791 court case whose decision in their favor prompted a backlash from the French planter class which sparked the Haitian Revolution.

" Ironically enough, Sallard would eventually throw in a few back-up vocals for Peniston on a song with a significant title, " You Win, I Win, We Lose ", while Peniston, who in return played an agent to get a record deal also for Malaika ( whose album Sugar Time scored in 1993 two Top 5 hits on the US Dance chart, including the No. 1 single " Gotta Know ( Your Name )") would mention the Pooch's name on her own debut album in addition, leaving Davis a note saying " thanks for letting me be a part of Female Preacher.

Ironically, Fujitsu was originally the data division of Fuji Electric, whose name was derived from its founders ; " Fu " from the Furukawa Electric zaibatsu, and " Ji " from jiimensu, the Japanese transliteration for Siemens.

The issue has never really been one of crime control, morality, or economic fairness ... At issue is economics ... Ironically, the strongest opponents of tribal authority over gaming on Indian lands are from States whose liberal gaming policies would allow them to compete on an equal basis with the tribes ... We must not impose greater moral restraints on Indians than we do on the rest of our citizenry.

Ironically, Moor Green, whose ground Solihull once shared, are currently groundsharing at the Boro's home after their own ground was damaged in an arson attack in 2005.

Ironically she was a friend of Shelley Sutherland whose husband married her character Beth Hunter later on in the show.

Ironically, the Dragon Division was annihilated in the Chinese town of Longling ( 龍陵 ), whose name means " Dragon's Tomb ".