| For someone who has always been a fan of high alpine meadows, it seemed a cruel irony to be dragged from sleep by a cowbell. |
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| With cruel irony, as livelihoods became increasingly precarious, population totals soared. |
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| Given the Forum's multicultural pretensions, it is a cruel irony that the Tibetan monks were swiftly banished from the beanfeast. |
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| The time has come to put an end to the cruel irony that the only democratic Arab State is living under the oppression of foreign occupation. |
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| Last but not least, I want to draw attention to a very cruel irony which has been alluded to before. |
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| In a cruel irony, victims of human trafficking are very often treated as offenders rather than victims of a crime. |
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| By a cruel irony, this parched land taunts its thirsty and hungry people with a mirage of shimmering oases in the distance. |
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| We are strong in our accomplishments, yet by some cruel irony we possess soft sensitive bodies and extraordinarily tall buildings. |
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| There was a cruel irony in him being killed from above by an errant bomb dropped by an American B-1 bomber. |
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| There is a cruel irony in the way that this reality is presented to the world. |
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| By a cruel irony, the war was an opportunity, a challenge to the patriarchy. |
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| It is the cruel irony that we take the kind of steps included in this bill to protect animals from any pain, but we have no protection for vulnerable preborn children right through the entire nine months of a pregnancy. |
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| A dreamlike face, inflections of cruel irony. |
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| This, with cruel irony, was what they most feared. |
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| So losing language was a particularly cruel irony. |
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| Problem: For a continent so in need of quick, affordable emergency relief, not to mention so riddled with unemployment, there's a cruel irony about the provenance of emergency supplies. |
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| This has resulted in a cruel irony whereby the poor are reluctant to protest against corruption, for fear that the trickle of resources which flows in their direction might be turned off! |
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| You do not have to be an antiabortionist to recognise a cruel irony when some families are desperate for a child and others cannot wait to be rid of an unborn baby. |
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