Ironically then, the protagonist is most active when inert, and his life acquires meaning at its end.

Ironically, the loss of his priesthood had allowed him to pursue a military career, as the high priest of Jupiter was not permitted to touch a horse, sleep three nights outside his own bed or one night outside Rome, or look upon an army.

Ironically, his assassin, An Jung-geun, strongly believed in a union of the three East Asian nations in order to counter and fight off the " White Peril ", being the European countries engaged in colonialism, restoring peace in the region.

The winners of that truce were Hill and Morgan, who immediately formed the Northern Securities Company with the aim of tying together their three major rail lines ( Ironically, the Burlington Route, Northern Pacific, and Great Northern would later merge in 1970 to form the Burlington Northern Railroad ).

Ironically the last three of these battles were amongst Germany's most celebrated victories in World War I.

Ironically, three decades after consolidation, the same segment of seasonal residents that originally pushed for consolidation now are protesting that Hague is taxed disportionately.

Ironically England won the series at Trinidad with no help from Snow ( 0 / 68 and 1 / 29 ) thanks to a sporting declaration by Gary Sobers giving England two and three quarter hours to make 215 for victory, which they did for the loss of three wickets with three minutes to spare.

Ironically, Ambassador A. A. Agada of the Embassy of Nigeria in Washington D. C., U. S., was more forthcoming in recognizing the case of Amina and stated on 29 August 2003: " the Embassy wishes to inform that Malama Amina Lawal has three levels of courts of appeal before the final determination of her case.

Ironically, and despite that era's Republican commitment to Reconstruction and black civil rights, all five Justices in the majority were appointed by Republicans ( three by Lincoln, two by Grant ), while the lone Democratic appointee Nathan Clifford dissented.

Ironically, his release from the Panthers came just three days after he suggested, when working as an analyst for ESPN at the 2007 NFL Draft, that the Panthers should draft a young wide receiver, which they did with the selection of Dwayne Jarrett.

Ironically, they rest next to the joint grave of three Luftwaffe bomber crew who died just fourteen days later when their aircraft crashed near Kingsdown.

Ironically, less than three weeks after the medal was first authorized, the United States was attacked at Pearl Harbor which led to another full-scale war with Germany, now allied with Japan.

Ironically the two fastest laps set by the atmo cars had been set at two of the three fastest circuits on the 1988 calender.

Ironically, between 1923 and 1939 three of the Big Four transferred their timetable production to Bradshaw's publisher Henry Blacklock & Co., and most of the official company timetables therefore became reprints of the relevant pages from Bradshaw.

Ironically Blackpool were his next loan destination, joining them for three months, where he made a significant impact, playing in 16 league games and scoring three goals.

Ironically, it was Quill, who dropped dead at age 60, three days after the union's victory celebration.

Ironically, he died, in Hamburg, exactly three years before the first day of the Revolution.

( Ironically, this is the same city that has historically been a strong base of Indian communism: West Bengal was ruled by the Communist Party of India ( Marxist ) ( CPI ( M )) dominated Left Front for nearly three decades — the world's longest-running democratically elected communist government.

Ironically, while Campbell was benched by coach's decision, the Raiders lost all three of the games that Campbell did not play in, as the Raiders finished the season at 8-8 and missed the playoffs.

Ironically, Queenan, of course, wrote one of the few negative reviews of the McCourt book, taking the author to task for being overly sentimental and too quick to forgive his father for his actions which directly caused the deaths of three of his children.

Ironically, the three parishes that ultimately continued the Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria and united with the Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia in 1953 ( East St Kilda, Geelong ( Myers Street ) and Hamilton / Branxholme ) had all benefited from state-aid.

Ironically, and hilariously, the crew of the Red Dwarf heed Kryten's distress call with much excitement and enthusiasm when faced with the prospect of meeting real, live women for the first time in three million years.

Ironically, Peter Ruckman, a BJU graduate, has argued the most extreme version of the KJV-only position, that all translations of the Bible since the KJV have been of satanic origin.

Ironically, the film was released in the final few weeks of Nazi Germany's existence, when most of the country's cinemas were already destroyed.

Ironically, the manuscripts that were being most carefully preserved in the libraries of Antiquity are virtually all lost.

Ironically, most leaders who proclaim themselves President for Life do not in fact successfully serve a life term.

Ironically, for an artist considered one of the Italian cinema's greatest and most influential directors, De Sica's sole Academy Award nomination was for acting, when he received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nod for playing Major Rinaldi in American director Charles Vidor's 1957 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, a movie that was panned by critics and proved a box office flop.

Ironically one of the most important issues, the replacement of the light firearms, failed during his mandate due to the soldiers clinging onto their cheap and highly reliable Heckler & Koch G3's, made by INDEP ( the Portuguese Military factory ) in Portugal.

Ironically, it is these paintings, created late in his life, and after the heyday of the Impressionist movement, that most obviously use the coloristic techniques of Impressionism.

Ironically, it had been Mulroney who had played the lead role in recruiting Wagner to the PC party a few years earlier, and the two wound up as rivals for Quebec delegates, most of whom were snared by Wagner, who even blocked Mulroney from becoming a voting delegate.

Ironically, for many years it has been the nickel weeklies that most people refer to when using the term " dime novel.

Ironically, she left the most important contribution from Diane stay-the garden.

Ironically, the isolationist Albania under Enver Hoxha, virtually a hermit kingdom, became one of the most prolific international broadcasters during the latter decades of the Cold War, with Radio Tirana one of the top five broadcasters in terms of hours of programming produced.

Ironically, while the name Cornell was kept by the new town, most of the early businesses were in the Amity part of the platt.

Ironically, the most notable of Q-Tip's critics was Phife, who took his former partner to task on his solo album Ventilation: Da LP, released in 2000.

Ironically, one of those most opposed to this partition settlement was the leader of Irish unionism, Dublin-born Sir Edward Carson, who felt that it was wrong to divide Ireland in two.

Ironically, it is the most primitive ( in-shape ) projectiles that are hardest to defend against.

Ironically, the most capable of her husbands was the one who was least well prepared to be emperor, Michael IV.

Ironically, though most of the love-shy men disliked or even hated their parents, they visited them constantly, because they were the only people they could interact with and also to receive financial support despite also receiving heavy hazing.

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, perhaps the Association's most momentous influence on science was in 1878 when a committee of the Association recommended against constructing Charles Babbage's analytical engine.

Ironically, he spent most of series 8 either in his prison jumpsuit or his battle fatigues.

Ironically, for a soldier-prince who fought France most of his martial career, seventeen years after the margrave's death the only one of his daughters to survive childhood, Princess Auguste, married Louis d ' Orléans, son of the infamous French Regent and, at the time of the wedding, first in the line of succession to the throne of France.

Ironically during her most successful year, Wells was having problems with Motown over her original recording contract, which she had signed at the age of 17.

Ironically, they won their most recent Conference title in the final season of the re-election system, in which the Football League members had to vote on whether or not to replace one of the bottom four teams in the Fourth Division with the champions of the highest non-league division.