Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

Ironically, it soon became apparent that it had been Lascoe, an old pro ... who had made her feel like an amateur.

Ironically, the introduction of the Davy lamp led to an increase in mine accidents, as the lamp encouraged the working of mines and parts of mines that had previously been closed for safety reasons.

Ironically the rate of promotion of indigenous Fijian officers had been very rapid after the 1987 coup, and subsequent expansion of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces.

( Ironically, the Protestant William had also enjoyed the support of the Pope and the Catholic Habsburg monarchy against the aggressive foreign policy of Louis XIV of France ).

Ironically, Peter Hain had served as president of the Young Liberals when they called for the impeachment of Mr. Murray in 1977.

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, it had been Bryce, following orders from Grossberg, who fought a hacking battle of sorts ( a la the opening scene to Hackers ) with Theora Jones that led to Edison hitting his head on a traffic barrier and falling unconscious.

Ironically, the Ipatiev House has the same name as the Ipatiev Monastery in Kostroma, where Mikhail Romanov had been offered the Russian Crown in 1613.

" Ironically ( because, it appears, no one had noticed his allusion ) Sonata No. 7 received a Stalin Prize ( Second Class ), and No. 8 a Stalin Prize First Class, even though the works have been subsequently interpreted as representing Prokofiev " venting his anger and frustration with the Soviet regime.

Ironically, France and New Zealand had been allies since French missionaries settled in Akaroa, in 1835.

Ironically, it made global headlines alongside reports that Pakistan, following the suit of its neighbor and bitter rival India, had just detonated a nuclear device.

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, the boundary changes had arisen due to his own campaign for the number of MPs representing Northern Ireland to be increased to the equivalent proportion for the rest of the United Kingdom, as part of the steps towards greater integration.

Ironically, only Prost was able to agree terms with Williams for 1993, leaving a seat free for Patrese had he remained with the team.

Ironically, the Germans believed this was because their counterattack had been successful.

Ironically, it was the king who had originally chosen Gaveston in 1298 to be a suitable friend for his son due to his wit, courtesy and abilities.

Ironically, Gearreald was blind and could not see the clock ; she had no idea only a few moments were left in the game.

Ironically, Allan Loughead himself had planned to bid for his own company, but had raised " only " $ 50, 000 ($), which he felt was too small a sum for a serious bid.

Ironically, Sun and AT & T had previously competed over Sun's NFS versus AT & T's Remote File System ( RFS ), and the quick adoption of NFS over RFS by Digital Equipment, HP, IBM, and many other computer vendors tipped the majority of users in favor of NFS.

Ironically, if the proposals had become law, many of the activities of the trades unions during the Winter of Discontent a decade later would have been illegal.

Ironically, the battle that ended Germany's paratrooper operations had the opposite effect on the Allies.

Ironically, it was Hoyle who coined the phrase that came to be applied to Lemaître's theory, referring to it as " this big bang idea " during a BBC Radio broadcast in March 1949.

Ironically, Blanc's characterization of the Woody Woodpecker laugh had originally been applied to a Bugs Bunny prototype, in shorts such as the aforementioned Elmer's Candid Camera, and was later transferred to Woody.

Ironically, Flowers applied for a loan from the Bank of England to build another machine like Colossus but was denied the loan because the bank did not believe that such a machine could work.

Ironically, the ' rational ' theory even failed in fields where the authors assumed expertise: " More damage was suffered by rational thermodynamics when it was found that the theory could not be applied to non-Newtonian fluids.

Ironically, Herzl was soon complaining that his " polemical term " was often being applied to him, for example by Karl Kraus.

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, as noted above, the mineral gadolinite actually contains only traces of Gd.

Ironically, though, Guy is the only character who goes unharmed in the adventure.

" Ironically ," wrote theatre critic Lucy Komisar, " possibly his only true book ... about a successful author who is shown to be a fraud.

Ironically he was the only soldier involved in the Affair to serve in the First World War.

Ironically, O ' Sullivan's term became popular only after it was criticized by Whig opponents of the Polk administration.

Ironically it is only Steerpike, the power hungry, psychopathic and devious rebel, who shares Titus ' contempt for the rules and traditions of Gormenghast.

Ironically, the only remaining estate that was not removed for flower cultivation ( Keukenhof ) became world-famous for its flower displays.

Ironically, despite the developer-litigants ' claimed interest in allowing poor people to live in Easttown, they only built houses that sold at well over the average value in Pennsylvania.

( Ironically, the demand for rayon fabric for trendy clothing shot upward only a few years later.

Ironically, Geldof had previously refused to allow the video to be shown, due to time constraints, and had only relented when Bowie offered to drop the song " Five Years " from his set as a trade-off.

Ironically, Derrick May once described Detroit techno music as being a " complete mistake ... like George Clinton and Kraftwerk caught in an elevator, with only a sequencer to keep them company.

Ironically, but as testament to the pure political expediency of the purchases, the Princes of Liechtenstein did not permanently live in their new principality for over 200 years, moving only in 1938 into the Alpine territory.

Ironically again, the next one to die is Guy, the only one who has not had sex with Reg and who seems to have been infected with HIV when he was raped during his holiday in Lanzarote.

Ironically, Moorer has always been recognized as a former light heavyweight champion despite only ever holding the same organization's title at that weight.

Ironically, Jake Spoon decides not to go after all, being selfish and undependable and because he promises the town's only prostitute, Lorena Wood, known as Lorie, he'll take her to San Francisco.

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, Hewes was not only one of the few people in favor of a war against Britain but was one of the few Quakers in Congress.

Ironically: the same people who were, for decades, stigmatised as ultra-Croatian " linguistic nationalists " ( Stjepan Babić, Dalibor Brozović, Radoslav Katičić, Miro Kačić ) have been accused as pro-Serbian " political linguists " simply because they opposed these " language purges " that wanted to kick out numerous words of Church Slavonic origin ( which are common not only to Croatian and Serbian, but are also present in Polish, Russian, Czech and other Slavic languages ).

Ironically the Max Meldrum-led Australian Tonalism movement, which rejected modernist art and promoted a unique form of painting in accordance with Meldrum's theories of art, has since been recognized as a precursor to Modernist forms of art, including Minimalism, and art historian Bernard William Smith noted that Meldrum is perhaps the only Australian artist to develop and practice his own fully formulated theory of painting.