Ironically, the property that they prevent the soil from drying out can also be problematic for commercial agriculture.

Ironically, although the ID tags include religion as a way of ensuring that religious needs will be met, some personnel have them reissued without religious affiliation listed — or keep two sets, one with the designation and one without — out of fear that identification as a member of a particular religion could increase the danger to their welfare or their lives if they fell into enemy hands.

Ironically, given the status of the Western Isles as the last Gàidhlig-speaking stronghold in Scotland, the Gaelic language name for the islands – Innse Gall – means " isles of the foreigners " which has roots in the time when they were under Norse colonisation.

Ironically, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and in Europe has not embraced his vision of armed jihad, something for which they have been denounced by more radical Islamists.

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

( Ironically, the Chronicler is very generous to the south Judah and considers it God's will to recover the chosen people that they were destroyed by Babylon and exiled to Babylon.

Ironically, many who held similar opinions to the character enjoyed the show, perhaps missing the point that Alf's opinions were considered offensive and that they were being ridiculed.

Ironically, Kobe, the home city of the largest yakuza syndicate Yamaguchi-gumi, is one of the safest cities in Japan, because " cheap " criminals such as street gangs and thugs are afraid to attract the yakuza's attention so they avoid being active in the city.

Ironically, that same speed and maneuverability made them highly prized and even more targeted by the pirates they were designed to avoid.

Ironically, they died within 500 feet ( 150 m ) of their spacecraft.

Ironically, it now appears that rumors started to hide the fact that the family was dead actually fueled the rumors they were alive.

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 fledgling navy of the Greek revolutionaries was far ahead of the field: they possessed a small warship propelled by steam-powered paddles ( as well as sails ) called the Karteria.

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, considering his fame as a cartoonist who draws a cat, Davis's first wife, Carolyn ( Altekruse ), was allergic to cats, although they owned a dog named Molly.

Ironically, because some of the immigrants lived at the lower end of town ( and therefore happened to live close to the source of the water supply ), they suffered disproportionately from the tainted water.

Ironically, the arrival of the army and its construction of Camp Floyd in nearby Cedar Valley ended up greatly benefiting Grantsville's settlers as they were then able to trade with the army for many needed provisions.

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, it is revealed in the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman that they perform fairly well overall in school, as their grades range from B to C. They are also always getting in trouble by Mr Krupp.

Ironically, Arab nationalists in Iraq had a positive reception to the treaty because they saw this as progress, which seemed better than the Arab situation in Syria and Palestine.

Ironically, in the same period they also began contracting with Amtrak to carry mail by rail.

Ironically, he was probably more eager to wage war than they were, but he took no account of the fact that the IRA was not a national army and could not operate on the same scale, with the same inattention to casualties.

Ironically, they all confide in Guy.

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, within the hour, Louis and her promoter Bernie call a hysterical Billie with news that they got her Carnegie Hall.

" Ironically, Chase would later write the foreword for Carroll's collection of Whorf's writings.

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, the rise of infantry in the early 16th century coincided with the " golden age " of heavy cavalry ; a French or Spanish army at the beginning of the century could have up to half its numbers made up of various kinds of light and heavy cavalry, whereas in earlier medieval and later 17th century armies the proportion of cavalry was seldom more than a quarter.

Ironically, Lancaster lived on the charity of friends in his later life.

Ironically enough, a century later after emancipation a number of former slaves would go and seek work on Vieques as free men of colour, notwithstanding that Vieques was still a slave owning society.

He later noted, " Ironically, the studio brass were horrified when I said I was cutting the wave.

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, 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, it is later revealed, in " Homer the Great " that 912 is the real number ).

Ironically the team that came sixteenth in Accrington's last season were Newton Heath, playing their first season in the league, who were later to become Manchester United.

Ironically, many of the former attributes were later ascribed to the Greeks, especially the Seleucid kingdom, by the Romans.

Ironically, many years later, in order that he could command Henry VI's forces at Mortimer's Cross, Owen was made a Knight Banneret.

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

Ironically, the plant removes all the natural minerals from the water by reverse osmosis and later adds a specific mixture of minerals to give it a consistent taste.

Ironically, Cleon later perished in a military campaign to quell the revolt there.

Ironically, two later editions of his show featured the late 1970s incarnation of Pan's People, one of whom, Louise English, went on to become a major cast member of the Hill show through the mid-1980s.

Ironically, Herrmann had composed some jazz for the " picnic " scene in Citizen Kane and he later used some jazz elements ( much in the vein of Maurice Ravel's two piano concertos ) for The Wrong Man when he scored the nightclub scenes showing Henry Fonda as a double bass player in a jazz band, and for Taxi Drivers saxophone-driven theme which recalls Charlie Parker's rendition of " Laura.

Ironically, it was partly the rise of true " social " fraternities modelled after Phi Beta Kappa later in the nineteenth century which obviated the social aspects of membership in the organization, transforming it into the honorary society it is today.

Ironically, this was the first time Swanson had heard the name of Joseph P. Kennedy, who she would later have an affair with and who would finance her next few pictures including Queen Kelly ( 1929 ).

Ironically, in light of later events, the constitution also forbade the union of the Albanian throne with that of any other country.

“ Ironically, when we did reform Eve 6 a couple years later, those experiments allowed us to progress the sound of the band more freely than if we had been in the band the whole time.

Ironically the edict was withdrawn a few months later, although by this time his patroness, Electress Louisa Henrietta had died and so he was still without a position.

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, some of these songs later made up the band's debut album Get The Knack, and included " Good Girls Don't ".

Ironically, Florence would later take up her mother's mantle as a committed suffragette, making public speeches on the subject and authoring the book Julia Ward Howe and the Woman Suffrage Movement ( 1913 ).