5 sentences with “ironic”

However, the Stamp Act had the unintended and ironic consequence of bringing colonists from very different areas and points of view together in protest.

Thus, in an ironic historical paradox, some of the world's first "welfare state" provisions were passed by a conservative government to weaken socialism.

The emancipation of the serfs was the most significant reform spearheaded by a 19th century Russian tsar. It is therefore ironic that Alexander II was the only Tsar to be assassinated by a radical terrorist group.

In a somewhat ironic twist, only some specific forms and areas of exploitation ever made a profit for Europeans, especially European governments. Numerous private trading companies founded to exploit colonial areas went bankrupt.

This is both ironic and unfortunate, since the Ottoman Empire was the very model of a successful early state - modern, politically centralised, economically prosperous, and engaged not only in war but in an enormous amount of trade with other states, including to a large extent the states of Europe.