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 enough, in this instance such personal virtues were a luxury.

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, it was at this time that the Hosokawa lords were also the patrons of Musashi's chief rival, Sasaki Kojirō.

South Africa also voted against the resolution, arguing that since there were no peace and security concerns raised by its neighbours, the question did not belong in the Security Council when there were other more appropriate bodies to represent it, adding, " Ironically, should the Security Council adopt resolution ... the Human Rights Council would not be able to address the situation in Myanmar while the Council remains seized with the matter.

Ironically, South America's two greatest victims of war and annexation in the previous century were ready to face each other in another bout of bloody combat, this time over a piece of apparently worthless, desolate wilderness.

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

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

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 New York Times was tricked into printing a fake list of slang terms that were supposedly used in the grunge scene ; often referred to as the grunge speak hoax.

Ironically, American Stores ' initials were " ASCO ".

Ironically, Mission Santa Cruz ( though ultimately ignored by the marauders ) was ignominiously sacked and vandalized by local residents who were entrusted with securing the church's valuables.

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

Ironically, the main beneficiaries were perhaps the owners of biens nationaux, numbering around one million, as their property had been guaranteed as one of the conditions for the act's passing, which subsequently led to a rise in the value of their land.

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, historian Derek Brown notes that if the battle is seen as part of the War of the Grand Alliance, Pope Alexander VIII was an ally of William and an enemy to James ; the Papal States were part of the Grand Alliance with a shared hostility to Louis XIV of France, who at the time was attempting to establish dominance in Europe and to whom James was an ally.

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, in the United States our extras were real Mayan refugees.