One could note a certain irony: one of the first acts of many of the newly independent states was to adopt the law of the foreign sovereign from whom independence had just been gained.

One irony in the Bears victory was that Payton had a relatively poor performance running the ball and never scored a touchdown in Super Bowl XX, his first and only Super Bowl appearance during his Hall of Fame career ( Many people including Mike Ditka have claimed that the reason for this due to the fact that the Patriots defensive scheme was centered around stopping Walter Payton ).

Adding to the irony of this review, in the 1960 NME Reader's Poll, Duane Eddy was the winner of the award for Number One World Musical Personality, taking first place ahead of consistent winner, Elvis Presley.

One newspaper wrote, comparing the current lifestyles of the Sex Pistols: " Only original bassist Glen Matlock remains touring with his own band, an irony given that he was sacked for being too conservative ".

" One reviewer of The Fabulist commented, " The irony — we must have irony in a tale this tawdry — is that Mr. Glass is abundantly talented.

One of the greatest hallmarks of Gottfried's style is his skillful use of irony, to both humorous and tragic effects.

One recurring theme seems to be the historical irony in the distribution of land, power, and surname: the Beauchamp name is taken by the black side of the McCaslin family, even though it is the side to descend through male blood, while the white descendants of Lucius Quintus Carothers McCaslin, the patriarch of the family, inherit his land and wealth notwithstanding their lineage coming from the patriarch's daughter.

One reason for this is that evangelicalism, in keeping with its aims to produce conversion experiences, is far more concerned with the accessibility of its ideas to a large audience, as opposed to the primarily academic approach ( i. e., paradox, irony ), and thus intellectual difficulty, neo-orthodoxy espouses.

One of his pieces is a cantus firmus mass based on a madrigal by Marenzio ( Missa quinis vocibus super Dolorosi martir ) — an amusing musical irony in that it combines a technique which went out of fashion a hundred years before with the music of one of Italy's most popular and progressive composers.

For its part, Patricia Iezzi, who made his PhD thesis on " Poetics and Poetry of Julio Carreras ( h ) for the Facoltà ' di Lingue e Letterature Straniera-University of Pescara, Italy, says :" One of the stories arouses more wonder is the " Black Hand Chusa " irony, exhibitionism, boastfulness eccentricity and decorate to this character with the withered hand, Uta, who had been in the Salamanca and must address a series of surreal events and unbelievable situations.

One way Alvarez Bravo did this was to employ a sense of irony, to the addition of an element contrary to expectations and the main focus of the photograph.

One memorable HUGE trip was when the corps went down to Disney World for the American Bicentennial in 1976, and the irony is that eventually Florida became the corps ' home.

One consequence of the Sputnik shock was the perception of a " missile gap.

One notable example was the wave of education reforms implemented after the Soviet Union launched its Sputnik satellite in 1957.

One of the leading scientists behind the Soviet animals in space programmes, he selected and trained Laika, the dog who flew on the Sputnik 2 mission.

Sputnik gave a positive review, saying its " One of the best EPs I've heard, with one of the best songs I've heard.

One such event is the landing in Europe itself, when the mingled familiarity and strangeness of the Occident, after the blank immensities of Asia, shocks the returning traveller into a realization of the infinite possibilities of human life.

One would not expect such an event to occur in animals possessing lungs of types 1, or 2.

One day Maeterlinck, coming with a friend upon an event which he recognized as the exact pattern of a previous dream, detailed the ensuing occurrences in advance so accurately that his companion was completely mystified.

One event that affected ` Abdu ' l-Bahá greatly during his childhood was the imprisonment of his father when ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was eight years old ; the imprisonment led to his family being reduced to poverty and being attacked in the streets by other children.

One such album has been announced recently at an event at P. J.

One particularly humorous example of such promotional efforts is the Great Comic Strip Switcheroonie, held in 1997 on April Fool's Day, an event in which dozens of prominent artists took over each other's strips.

One would imagine, though, that if this story were true, some kind of record ought to exist of the event, and presumably Danish historians would not have failed to mention it in some way.

One of the most famous Imperial coronation ceremonies was that of Napoleon, crowning himself Emperor in the presence of Pope Pius VII ( who had blessed the regalia ), at the Notre Dame de Paris | Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The painting by Jacques-Louis David | David commemorating the event is equally famous: the gothic cathedral restyled Empire ( style ) | style Empire, supervised by the Letizia Ramolino | mother of the Emperor on the balcony ( a fictional addition, while she had not been present at the ceremony ), the pope positioned near the altar, Napoleon proceeds to crown his then wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais as Empress.

The event was part of the pre-Second World War European Championship and was included in the first Formula One World Championship in 1950.

One can also bet with another person that a statement is true or false, or that a specified event will happen ( a " back bet ") or will not happen ( a " lay bet ") within a specified time.

One medium apparently made contact with a deceased cousin of Gardner's, an event which impressed him greatly.

One of these possible events is an asteroid impact like the one which may have resulted in the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event.

The JREF sponsors The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge offering a prize of US $ 1, 000, 000 to eligible applicants who can demonstrate evidence of any paranormal, supernatural or occult power or event under test conditions agreed to by both parties.

One of the leading theories for the cause of the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event that included the dinosaurs is a large meteorite impact.

One year later, the Polish ruler had a personal meeting with the Emperor, an event mentioned in the Annals of Hersfeld:

One such event destroyed the first temple of Ishtar which was then rebuilt in 2260 BC by the Akkadian king Manishtusu.

God then removed the memory of this event from the minds of Mankind ( leaving only an innate awareness that He exists and is One, known as the Fitra in Islam ) and He decreed at which point each and every human would be born into the physical world.

One of the most significant, common signaling character of the event is that a prototype of professional chemotaxis receptors, formyl peptide receptor ( 60. 000 receptor / cell ) as well as the activator ability of its ligand formyl Met-Leu-Phe have been demonstrated in the surface membrane even in the case of human sperms.

One of the more notable events learned involved Vice President Al Gore and a fund-raising event held at Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, California.

One such event was endorsed by Mwai Kibaki, the President of Kenya.

On June 2, 2011, the World Series of Poker and Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté announced plans for an officially sanctioned special fundraising event, known as The Big One for One Drop, starting on July 1, 2012 with a record US $ 1 million entry fee.

One event that was scheduled for Biloxi, Mississippi, was canceled after the Grand Casino Biloxi, which was scheduled to host the event, suffered major damage from Hurricane Katrina.

One thing was certain -- his method was effective, so effective that after a time even the warning notices were often unnecessary.

One of Greg's bombs hung up, and he was miles from the target before he could get rid of it.

One swallow was all he would have ; ;

One girl expressed what was obviously in their minds.

One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.

One beatnik got the woman he was living with so involved in drugs and self-analysis and all-night sessions of sex that she was beginning to crack up.

One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.

One of the pictures was of a man with hat drawn over his face ceremoniously lighting a cigarette ; ;

One thing Papa had not taught Henrietta was how to handle a young man as high-spirited and opinionated as herself.

One cause of Schopenhauer's pessimism was the fact that he failed to learn the guitar.

One was an article on the U.N. by Alice Widener from the Cincinnati Enquirer.

One day he assigned me to lay bare a `` plot '' by the Duponts to supply munitions to a wholly fictitious revolution he said was about to occur in Cuba.

One shawl was so tremendous that she could not wear it, so she draped it over the banister on the second floor, and it hung over the stairway.

One White House dog was immortalized in a painting.

One person she helped was my brother.

One of Sherman's most serious shortcomings, however, was his mistrust of his cavalry.

One can imagine that with her and Gorton there it was no place for anyone with weak nerves.

One historical authority presents laborious and circuitous testimony tending to arouse suspicion that Massachusetts was behind the clouds settling down on the embattled Gorton.

One of the people who was afraid of Alfred was his own brother, Lew.

One example of this was his assertion that `` all servile revolts must be dealt with by physical force ''.

One day he was visited by a delegation of would-be imitators who wanted to know his secret.